Mastodon itself is a bit too heavy for my liking – PostgreSQL and Redis and Sidekiq and Ruby – I'm excited to see more work going into lighter alternatives that are optimized for inexpensive (ideally serverless) self-hosting
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Hugging Face Dev Advocacy Internship Focuses on Speech AI
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Update: I’ll be interning with the Dev Advocacy team at @huggingface for the next couple months. I’ll be working on Speech and adjacent use-cases P.S. That’s my team mascot
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Mastodon deployment options: PostgreSQL, Ruby, Redis infrastructure
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There are a bunch of options as far as I can tell, but I've not tried any out yet Mastodon itself is pretty heavy – PostgreSQL and Ruby and Redis and a massive number of Sidekiq queues
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Mastodon Explained: Decentralized Blogs and Feed Subscriptions
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I'm finding Mastodon a lot easier to understand having I've realized that it's just blogs. Everyone gets a little blog, on their own server or someone else's. Following someone is pretty much subscribing to their feed. You can even roll your own implementation from scratch.
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Mastodon maturity addresses decentralized social network challenges effectively
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The reason I'm optimistic about Mastodon is that they very clearly understand the challenges involved in running software this way, and have spent the past 6 years plucking away at them It's not perfect, but I think it's now Good Enough, especially for this unique moment
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Mastodon App Sees User Return and Significant Improvements
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Genuinely the first time I've heard of that app Lots of people who tried out Mastodon a few years ago have been signing up again (or reactivating old accounts) and expressing surprise at how much it has improved since they first tried it
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Thousand tiny servers bloom: Mastodon financial sustainability model
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That's another reason why I'm optimistic: may a thousand tiny servers bloom Mastodon users seem to get that they should open their wallets – there are no ads so it's pretty clear that people need to help financially support the servers they are using – or volunteer time, or both
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Decentralized Moderation: Distributed Responsibility Across Thousands
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I really do think that's one of its strengths though: there are genuinely thousands of servers, so the moderation responsibility is shared by a very wide set of volunteers
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Server Administration Responsibility in Decentralized Technology
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Running a server for other people is definitely not a responsibility to be taken lightly! This post really influenced my thinking about that https://
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ActivityPub recognized as essential protocol for decentralized networks
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And thank you very much for your many years of work on ActivityPub, it appears to be exactly what we need right now!