Just hooked up bird.makeup to tracing software for the first time and it's really fascinating!
For exemple, this is an histogram of how fast Twitter answers queries for recent posts by an account.
Look how slow it is! There are a few speedy one at 50~ms, but most are >300ms, which would indicate that they are not cached.
I would have thought it was the other way around, most accounts cached a few that have posted recently that are not cached
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If you depend on our #relay my dear #mastoadmin folks, and have a GitHub account, chiming in on how this will impact you would be appreciated. If you’re unsure how it will impact you, I’ll sum it up: no more relay 😣 https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/23989
Here is a fun animation that will help you to understand the relative rpms of the planets.
CoreWeave just took out a $2.3 billion loan, collateralized against their GPU stockpile … and will use the facility to … buy more GPUs. This is fine. 🫠 https://www.reuters.com/technology/coreweave-raises-23-billion-debt-collateralized-by-nvidia-chips-2023-08-03/
“The reason most public transportation is seen as ‘losing’ money is precisely because it charges for trips. If you don't charge fares, suddenly it can't ‘lose’ money. It just costs money, the same as the roads.”
This random comment has given me my new favourite argument for removing fares from public transit.
Some interesting fediverse stuff from the BBC! https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-07-mastodon-distributed-decentralised-fediverse-activitypub
Also I'm going to make it deploy automatically from sourcehut when I push new changes, this is going to save me so much time!
I did it! I now have a kubernetes cluster!
Here is the config for bird.makeup, for those curious: https://git.sr.ht/~cloutier/bird.makeup/tree/master/item/k8s/dotmakeup.yaml
I'll see how it behaves in the next week or so, and then I'll start consolidating the various servers I have to it.
Also it's only in web server mode, it doesn't crawl yet. I will use the ordinal of the statefulset as the shard ID to enable crawling. Right now it has to be manually set per node
I'm so excited to share Mastopoet, a tool made by @raikas that allows you to capture Mastodon posts as beautiful images and share them across the Internet. This makes posts much more eye-catching in other social medias for instance.
Use the tool: https://mastopoet.ohjelmoi.fi/
Browse the source code: https://github.com/raikasdev/mastopoet
Mastopoet supports #MastodonBirdUI and options to show metrics in textual or icons or hide them completely.
Please note: If you use this tool to share toots, remember to copy the post text as alt text, thank you!
#Mastodon #MastodonTools #Mastopoet #Tools #MastodonTips #Fediverse #OpenSource
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