@alex

Hey FYI, I'm getting a bit of traction in the #Fediverse promoting #Soapbox and I've even been visiting #Twatter a bit, promoting it there too but also links to #JoinTheFedi and https://Btrf.ly too.

I actually think a couple of folks have indicated they've opted for the SaaS offering, which is kewl, they people have a turnkey solution for deploying a Soapbox Fediverse instance.

Oh, one of those posts I've just boosted includes a question about where the user can find their Admin section, in addition to config.
@graf @pasture you might want to add the URL for customers to reach their admin section into your knowledgebase area as well (i.e., hostname.tld/pleroma/admin/) as I had to tell a couple of folks that either subscribed with you or self-hosted a Soapbox/Rebased instance for themselves.

Anyway, there needs to be more active marketing and promotion of these Soapbox related links posted into Twatter space because msdtodon is but one Fediverse server solution, and people have even asked need for Fediverse solutions for writers and journalists too, so Soapbox, #Friendica, #Mitra, and Write.As are the most viable platforms for these folks, msdtodon not even coming close to meeting the requirements necessary for professional writers.

I hope that helps, and all the best!

#tallship #FOSS #privacy #ActivityPub

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RT: https://fosstodon.org/users/tallship/statuses/109328915233977120

tallship

2022-11-12 04:20:55

You're very welcome, and #Pleroma itself is kind of a hot mess now, largely in disarray, maybe even somewhat stalled after the very professionally minded #Soapbox developer left that project, forking it when he did.

Here's some links to fill you in:

https://blog.alexgleason.me/pleroma-is-dead/
(Listen to the podcast too).

He's made self-hosting easy too:

https://soapbox.pub/install/

@akex@gleasonator.com #tallship

I’ve thought about this when @ar.al🌻 shared their massive #Mastodon worker activity increase related to the #TwitterMigration. This migration barely started, relative to the total number of Twitter accounts, and the #Fediverse wasn’t particularly under-provisioned.

It’s just that activity increase isn’t linear with the total number of users/instances. And as long as we were a marginal item, existing hosting solutions could stay ahead of the curve.

The Twitter migration isn’t the real deal, it’s a relatively small stress test, but its effects already are hard to handle for most existing servers.

I believe we may be at a turning point where no #Fediverse project will be able to claim to be “light” or “fast” anymore, just by virtue of the compounded network load.

Yellow Flag

2022-11-09 09:57:34

It will be interesting to watch live how Fediverse scales up in reality.

Thing is: Fediverse’s communication between instances is roughly quadratic in the number of instances, and it’s getting closer to quadratic as the instances are becoming more interconnected due to increased user numbers.

An additional issue: the effort of running an instance (e.g. storage space) isn’t linear in the number of instance users but rather roughly linear in the number of total Fediverse users across all instances.

In other words: if at some point the majority of Twitter users migrates to Mastodon or other Fediverse software, spreading the load across a huge number of instances won’t make it all too much easier to handle. On the other hand, the traffic required to keep all these instances in sync might become completely unrealistic.

Interesting times…