[kwlug-disc] The Fediverse is complicated

[Doug Moen]

Yeah, the infamous federated timeline. I found some NSFW material in the Federated Timeline on the new kw mastodon server that paul created.

According to the internet, you can disable this in Administration > Site Settings.
https://imgur.com/a/hPXkt

On Tue, Nov 22, 2022, at 4:39 PM, Ronald Barnes wrote:
> Doug Moen wrote on 2022-11-21 04:42:
>
>> I don't think this article accurately describes the real practical issues in running a Mastodon instance.
>
> Late Night Linux podcast covered running one's own Mastodon instance, 
> and there are some surprises.
>
> Guest Alan Pope (@popey), from Canonical, ran / runs one and found quite 
> a lot of media on his instance, from sources that appeared in his timeline.
>
> i.e. Nothing he'd ever looked at, videos and photos he didn't recognize 
> at all.
>
> He's the sole user.
>
> 21m40s at this podcast:
>
> https://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-204/
>
>> https://podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/latenightlinux/LNL204.mp3
>
> 24m53s: "Are you not worried about moderation / content?"
> "Yes! It's my box ... the media directory eating up disk space ... 
> massive videos ... no idea who these people are..."
>
> Comes from the Federated Timeline.
>
>
>
>
> Quite a humorous discussion - remote port forwarding, and since he ran a 
> Linode instance with port-forwarded ports 80 & 443 back to his office, 
> the whole "South African billionaire in control" joke was made.
>
>
> rb
>
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