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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Interesting stats from my single person instance. Right now it knows 194730 fediverse users, on 8799 instances. It stores 3652744 posts, and gets about 71000 new posts every day. The PostgreSQL database is about 10 gigs, but the compressed database dump I take as a backup is only 851 megs. It needs about 4 gigs of memory to be happy. Since starting this instance a few months ago, I've made 1255 posts.
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Martin from Toronto @mcourcel@mstdn.ca
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@fastfinge You have your own instance? Do you argue with yourself? Because that would be cool.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@mcourcel Nah, I just wanted to use my interfree.ca domain in my handle and that was the only way.
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Andrew Hodgson @andrew@hodgson.io
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@fastfinge @mcourcel Yeah I did similar for this reason. Are you running Mastodon or a lightweight alternative? I'm running Mastodon via Cloudron.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@andrew @mcourcel I’m running iceshrimp.net. It’s not really about lighter resource use, I just don’t want to contribute to the Mastodon monoculture on the fediverse; we know what happens when one software dominates. And when I was looking, Go To Social didn’t support push notifications.
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Andrew Hodgson @andrew@hodgson.io
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@fastfinge @mcourcel Yeah one reason I went with Mastodon was it was what Cloudron supported which is the control panel I'm using on this server right now. I note you're using Cosmo which I haven't seen before and it consumes standard Docker images. How have you found that to use? Are you running any other apps with that or just your Iceshrimp instance?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@andrew @mcourcel Oh also IPFS, tor, Bluesky pds, sky bridge, and audiobookshelf. And everything I listed authenticates with my cosmos user account.
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James Scholes @jscholes@dragonscave.space
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@fastfinge How does the authentication bit work if each individual thing doesn't specifically know about Cosmos? @andrew
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jscholes @andrew Cosmos is an openid provider, so apps that support SSO integrate that way. The cosmos reverse proxy also passes authentication headers, and some apps support that. Worst case scenario cosmos can be configured to require authentication before proxying particular urls.
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Andrew Hodgson @andrew@hodgson.io
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@fastfinge @jscholes Over those multiple servers are they all connected together through the Cosmos VPN as if they were all on the same network?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@andrew @jscholes Yes. It’s just a fancy vpn that syncs accounts. Also, only one machine is accessible to the internet. It proxies requests for apps on other machines over the vpn.
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