Marco Dalla Stella @mdallastella@functional.cafe

A quick clarification about the instances list I posted yesterday: it is not a list of dead instances, my bad. As @loke pointed out, https://mastodon.sdf.org/ is alive and well.

The process I started on monday was checking all remote accounts of this instance (about 115k). These accounts are followed by or follow one or more accounts of #functionalcafe.

The remote account can be unreachable for different reasons: the instance is down, the ssl certificate of the instance is no longer valid or the remote user doesn't exist anymore.

At the end the process (tootclt accounts cull[1]) spits out a list of all the instances involved.

[1] https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/tootctl/#accounts

If you are curious about which instances are no longer reachable from #functionalcafe, I put a list here:

https://gist.github.com/mdallastella/9b00f08e51b2a0d7c1d585cad86f35c2

You guys have no idea about how many Mastodon instanced died these years... 🤦‍♂️

Hi #functionalcafe. To ease the migration to Pleroma, I'm going to do a little maintenance, so the instance will be down for a bit, starting from 8.30 am UTC.

Thanks for your patience.

Sorry guys, I have to postpone the migration to Pleroma due to a lack of time (too much work related stuff).

I'm planning to migrate on my holidays in a couple of week. Of course, I'm going to make an announce probably one or two days before the actual migration.

Thanks, Marco.

Ok, so the poll is closed, looks like we are going to migrate to Pleroma.

I'm going to make a couple of tests this weekend and probably we are going to do the actual migration on 01-02/08.

I'm always open to discuss this matter, but I think the choice is made.
Hope we'll all gain from this change.

I'm going to recreate the poll, since it looks like users from outside the instance can vote it too and it will "poison" the result... Sorry about that.

Ah, I keep forgetting, if you want to give Pleroma a try, there's https://p.functional.cafe/ available.

I know I already bring this up before, but here I ask again: would be an issue for you guys to migrate from Mastodon to Pleroma?

Mastodon is really heavy, has a complex structure (3 different mastodon services, 1 postgresql, 1 redis) and somehow "castrated" by default, forcing #functionalcafe to switch to a fork of it (glitch-soc, which works but of course have a "use at your own risk" disclaim) and sometimes it's a real PITA to update.

Actually, #functionalcafe has 463 users registered, but only about 15-20% of them are active.

Now, an eventual migration to Pleroma will take some times, probably a day but you will keep your toots and your followers.
(see https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/migrator).

I'm going to make another poll on another toot for this decision, but I really hope to make the switch. It will means less maintenance, less downtime, less issues thanks to a minor complexity...

Let me know your thoughts.

Ok, #functionalcafe updated to 3.1.5+Glitch, let me know if you have any issue.
Enjoy!

Hello fellow users of #functionalcafe. Today I'm going to update our instance with the latest Glitch release (for those who doesn't know we are running a fork of the offical Mastodon).

There will be some downtime, so be patient. Thank you all for the collaboration.

If you like prog/math rock, here there's a band for you, Covet:

https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=FTxSXUzc96A

For those interested, there is also a Matrix channel for functional.cafe:

https://matrix.to/#/!ZunAhcnEwNnUSuMsSg:matrix.org

I want to apologize for the instance issues yesterday, I'm busy, tired and stoopid: a lethal combination.

I don't know how, I broke the certificate renewal and that was the result. Won't happen again.

Thanks you all, especially: @spectrumgomas, @minoru and @JK008