@feditips This is great!! I added the FeedBro extension to Firefox and I'm using it so I don't miss posts from some accounts that I want to see updates on quickly. And one of them is Fedi.Tips, BTW

Thank you for posting this!

@dansup @pixelfed Annoying and stupid people serve their purpose too. Flip the idiot off and keep being incredible.

@dansup I maintain many personal servers (Mastodon, email server, Bluesky PDS, DNS, VPN, WordPress, Nextcloud, Peertube) and several more!, that I'd welcome having a Pixelfed instance that someone else would maintain for me. I'm just out of spare time.

I've thought of setting up a Pixelfed instance, but just haven't had the weekend time to do it.

So, yep, I'd sign up.

@dansup I'll second this.

I've been running multiple separate servers on DO for years and never had an issue (Mastodon (2 servers), Peertube, WordPress, WireGuard VPN, mail server, Phanpy, Bluesky PDS, and a general web server) with never a problem. I also use 2 DO Managed Postgres DBs and a DO Managed MySQL DB. Everything runs fast. Their support is excellent. They have many excellent tutorials.

Once they contacted me because I forgot to close a port in the firewall a few hours after I forgot to close it, so they do security scanning as well.

Scaling to a larger server, to get more disk space, or a larger DB is just a click.

Automated backups.

I think they are worth the small extra cost.

@feditips
Yes, it is indeed a good idea to spread out Mastodon over many servers to minimize intentional targeted disruption. And I keep reading this is the creator's intent.

So, it begs the question, why has mastodon.social, the instance created by the creator of Mastodon, reopened general registration when it already has over 167K active users? Why does the instance run by the Mastodon creator not support its own philosophy? Why is it trying to become even more of a centralized behemouth, contrary to its own intentions and making Mastodon, in the process, a bigger target?

Am I missing something?

@feditips Hi Fedi.Tips. Regarding, "There's also a built-in automatic translation system on some servers (depending on whether your admin has switched it on)."

Is this in the standard 4.1.0 Mastodon release? I cannot find this option?