Mo @mo@nitech.online

I think one of the nicest aspects of Mastodon is that people are less likely to dunk on you.

Eugen’s firm stance on no quoted toots takes away one of the most performative aspects of the birdsite, and I’m very thankful for that. But even the regular interactions feel like you’re speaking to an audience who just want to find out more about everybody they meet. It’s refreshing, to say the least.

Just waiting for Elon to fire the person who renews domain names so that I can snap up twitter dot com and use it for a Mastodon instance when it lapses.

The nitech.online instance hasn’t exactly seen thousands of new users but that’s been a relief for me! It’s still great to see new tooters joining up and old tooters returning to use the instance again.

@bigzaphod @schwa we have a similar issue at work right now. People need to decide up front which system to sign into to perform a task. We’ve pushed the limitations of our architecture decisions onto the customers.

@vinnycoyne i use it for tracking my daily meds, and it’s nice but for one factor: reminders. I’ve set it to pop onto my Lock Screen at 8am but if I have a lot of notifications or if I unlock my phone, the notification is lost.

So I’ve had to keep my Reminders app reminder for taking meds, as it will not shift from my notifications no matter what (until I mark it as complete).

@brendanjharkin that looks bad. They’ve gone and compressed 4 land rovers into 2 lanes.

@joshuanozzi

Tonight we do science!

@OpinionatedGeek @d3z This is effectively what I did too. I set something up on masto.host first and found that it really didn't suit me. Then I created this one. Used the same domain as well. I don't think it did much damage.

@OpinionatedGeek @d3z I don't think it's the worst thing in the world to do 🙂

I think peers will try to communicate with your server for 7 days and then give up. You could could try following people on a few servers for a while and if you're happy with how it's going then do a proper migration from your current account if you're sure you will keep the new server.

@OpinionatedGeek @d3z I've done the same with IMAP+SMTP. It really helps to gain an understanding, but it really doesn't do much in the long term.

I kinda cheated cause I'm using the Docker containers. I can't be bothered installing and maintaining all the software from source though.

@OpinionatedGeek @d3z There are dedicated Mastodon hosting providers that might be a better compromise between home server and running a VPS like I'm doing. I tried them out about 4 years ago, but the cost ramped up very quickly for more than a couple of users, but I think it's probably more cost-effective now.

@OpinionatedGeek @d3z There's been about 10 people active in the last week, 5 people active today.

It definitely needs the 2GB of RAM, IMO. I was trying to do upgrades earlier in the year and the Docker builds were failing with RAM issues on 1GB. That's generally how I've been handling installation, and upgrades (via Docker images).

@OpinionatedGeek @d3z nitech.online is running on a DigitalOcean droplet. Over the last 14 days (when traffic picked up again) it has been using:
- <6% of 1 vCPU
- ~75% of 2GB RAM
- ~10GB of disk space

@chartier I’m from the north of Ireland and the tech community there has had a Slack community for a long time. It was a natural extension to create an instance around our tech community and nitech.online was born. So we’ve done the location- and interest-based themes combined.

That said, I consider our instance open to people who are tech adjacent too.

PS Long-time subscriber to Bear here. Love the work y’all do, and still pumped for the new editor!

@nivrig “No. 464eva!”

@d3z There's that too, but also you have SSH access to the box as well.

@OpinionatedGeek @d3z If you do go a bit further with setting up an instance, I'm happy to have my brains picked.

(I feel confident in saying that now that zombie season has ended)