update on the whole relay situation: I got an MRF policy (setup instructions for akkoma ops inside) that should limit/eliminate abuse of relay accounts to approximate federated timelines. if you, as an instance op, were using an account to follow relays, you will have to make a new account named relay_follower and use that instead; also forbid using relay as a username (if possible, otherwise you can probably create an account with that name to reserve it) if on a gotosocial instance

if you’re on an akkoma instance or otherwise not following relays with an account, make sure that the relay_follower username is reserved or otherwise unavailable to users; akkoma lets you define reserved nicknames in the instance settings

can someone follow @testadmin rq? I’m testing something

another PSA, this time for GTS ops: you can actually subscribe to the recently enabled relays on the Akkoma instances, and while it doesn’t directly help with outgoing federation, it will definitely help with incoming federation. here’s how:

• create a new user on the instance just for the relay subscriptions (you technically could do it with your main user, but that’d basically bring a firehose feed to your home feed)
• follow relay@instance.tld on the Akkoma instances which have the relay enabled
• you’re done! the relay accounts you followed should be boosting every public post on the target instances, which should federate said posts to your own instance

#wlmeta #leaguemeta #gts #gotosocial

more #relaytesting

#relaytesting 2: more testing

Okay this wasn't the first time they did it, but Fallen London's location art doing the whole "entire buildings and castles existing in the negative space of rocks" bit is always going to be fantastic.

Just typed this up on my website (https://tanzi-media.com/Blogs/Misc_blogs/Solving_Problems)

Sort of my thoughts on a recent #vlogbrothers video, but also talked about how excited I've been to see how everyone has reacted to #cohost shutting down, and how in large part everyone is trying to create spaces on the internet that they actually want to be on. Something Cohost showed as was possible.

#tanzimedia_blogs

PSA for Akkoma instance ops: we just found out that the internal relay Works and Behaves as Expected with the allowlist. this’ll definitely help with federation and discovery

here’s how to set it up:

• enable Allow Relay in the instance settings (or :instance, allow_relay: true in the config)
• you might wanna announce that you did that, so other instance ops know that you can subscribe
• subscribe to other akkoma instances’ relays by adding their relay URL (https://instance.tld/relay, needs to be the “real” URL for split domain setups) in relays, you can refresh the list after a few seconds, if Followed back changes to a ✓, it’s working

#WLMeta #Akkoma

this is me btw

#shitposting #fops

I gotta fix the max image size on my notifications LMAO

it's getting cold, so I started running protein folding on my desktop again, and it's stupid how effective those things are at being space heaters, especially the one with a GPU

(space heater that also does some biomedical research :) )

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I use folding@home for this https://foldingathome.org but there's also other distributed-computing-for-research projects out there using tools like BOINC https://boinc.berkeley.edu

testing wide emoji (the emoji is a random file I had in my wallpapers, ignore it)

today in “Good Music I happen to be listening to right now”: Shingo Nakamura - Small Image

@froggebip good news, the favicon seems to be back for me!

i wanted to check if this thing is set up to allow uploading videos and it appears to be so now i’m just gonna share one of my favorite videos in recent memory, thanks

test

test

I swear I didn’t stage this, he just saw those two and went “I sit.”

yknow, I wish akkoma(/akkoma-fe) had the “warn when sending an image without alt text” feature, I know that some other fedi frontends do have it and it does come in handy

@viv seems like the whole report experiment from last time somehow left a bugged report in my instance that just doesn’t want to get deleted? time to dig around in the db

#art #furryart