Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

My goatsona. Purple hotrod fur, fairy wings to fly around, extra horns, skull mask to summon more goat friends, and taco shoes for fart jumps. 😎😎😎

@swordplay Pretty much at the moment. I have some friends that registered but I'm the only one active atm.

@swordplay Oh! Also until I did the volume thing I was paying like 40 dollars a month for a beefier droplet since I needed to keep expanding the SSD to fit more posts.

@swordplay Right now I'm paying $12 a month for a 2GB droplet on Digital Ocean with 1 CPU and 50 GB of storage. On top of that I also pay $10 a month for 100GB of storage. This is pretty cheap and works since it's mostly me. In my experience storage has been a bit of a pain, so setting up servers to use cheaper volume storage right from the get go is a good idea.

I'd ask your admins how much their costs are. I assume time spent moderating would be the biggest cost TBH.

Today's episode: Why is my IPFS file sync taking minutes for just a few files?

Problem: distributed.press v1 is taking like 3 minutes just to sync 44 MB of files from a static site and is taking up a strangely large amount of CPU and Disk to process. This then causes the process to be killed which corrupts the IPFS repo and requires manual intervention.

So far my gut feeling is this is due to me using `flush: true` when uploading data to MFS

@DragonDave Negligible since I'm pretty much a single user instance and don't follow many folks that federate with trolls. Been thinking of opening it up a bit more but I think that'll require setting aside more time to write up a policy and make time for following up on any moderation requests.

I pay several times more running a Mastodon instance than I would for twitter blue. AMA

@robin Yeah, my brain is all for being picked in that direction.

I might be at Thing, depends on whether I can get accomodations / travel figured out. I'm probably gonna present on p2p DBs there but I don't know if that'll enable me any sort of travel stipend.

I'm not working for PL at the moment so it's less clear. :P

@robin Yeah! A lot of my work on p2p databases has the idea of "community built search indexes" and "merging indexes from multiple communities without centralized servers" as core principles.

Stuff like cultural institutions, fan communities, and meta aggregators that curate high quality indexes (based on social trust) is also on my mind.

Maybe AI models destroying search results and trust in digital information will being a resurgence of people depending on librarians to get research information. 😛

@andybaio Maybe they just don't care about destroying the web and forsee some other way to collect the data. 😵 I really hope they crash and burn but I really worry at what would happen if they don't

@andybaio Do you think they're aware of that and just expect to pivot out of regular search before it's a problem?

Should I live-toot my thinking process when working through stuff some time?

Mostly debugging random nodejs stuff, getting native binaries to build, and maybe a bit of p2p stuff if I'm lucky.