Reminder that there is a 100$ bounty available to someone who successfully implements the Diaspora protocol as a module/plugin for !postActiv #postActiv
Reminder for !gnusocial / !postactiv admins: It would be a good idea to blackhole requests to/from 91.121.67.58 since it can otherwise mess up your queue and halt federation.
So, finally I opened pina.space for registrations. Beware that it's running nightly code and it's only a small VPS but I guess it's stable enough. We'll see... !postactiv
@bob As you wrote debian_install.sh of !postactiv I'm asking you directly: wouldn't it make sense to have the queuedaemons running as www-data? Something like: 'su -c "sh scripts/startdaemons.sh" -s /bin/sh www-data' in https://gnusocial.de/url/3892793
For those !postActiv admins out there: pawoo.net seems to be engaging in a lot of data mining and that kind of pulling from databases via the API. If you wish to be proactive about protecting the privacy of your issues, you might want to block them or consider measures to limit their API access. The latter is very technical with the current state of the codebase however (I will have to consider proper much less complicated means to do so) If you wish to block them, you can get the current IPs from a DIG of their addresses. As always, the decision to block, impose other sanctions, or do nothing, is on individual instance admins, but do be aware they're doing that kind of thing. #postactiv
I've had a good handful people asking me if I can help them set up a !postActiv instance and keep it going, and I've actually been reluctant to do this, for the reason that the sysadmin time for those instances would take away from my development time for postActiv (and my "day job" with HLA writing).
What StatusNet used to do is offered paid support of a kind, so I've embraced the spirit of my predecessor: those interested in having this done for them can find two new reward levels on the Patreon page: one for me to install it on a supported server you provide, and another for me to provide a VPS with it installed for you. If you're interested, check out the patreon page: patreon.com/postActiv
I'm not sure if there'll be interest for it as a paid thing, but I figure that's the fairest thing if you want me to actually do it for you. Of course, if you set it up yourself but run into problems, myself or others can still lend a hand if you ping the usergroup :) #postActiv
The !gnusocial and !postactiv groups do not exist as an easy means of promotion. If you kind of want to be like "hey guys, I have a question" or just get the attention of everyone, I'd argue that's more what the !fediverse group is about.
I am having an open call for !postActiv contributions. I am specifically looking for things people think GNU social or federated social networks in general should do that they don't already, or do differently. Basically, I want opinions of what people want changed, fixed, added, or done better, to give me ideas of where to focus my efforts in improving this software.
I am also looking for people who know PHP and can follow a coding standards document to help out, probably on a system of bounties for doing X bit in issues or something. I will have to flesh out the details of that part, though.