Introduction sorta
#introduction
...to a new instance, that is. Outsourced Math went kaput and Friendica My Portal became irretrievably unusable (and I like Friendica generally speaking but find instances of that few and far between) so now I hope to settle in the Rogue Project with hopes it lasts longer than the other two Friendica instances I was on.
I'm a Google Plus refugee who began in the Fediverse via Diaspora, only to find that to be highly problematic; Mastodon, I find quirky but that depends on the instance too, by the looks of it. Currently on the highly curtailed Qoto instance for Mastodon, so still looking around albeit casually for a new place for that.
I occasionally play #9OclockHashtagGames and participate in #monsterdon, and I do not boost posts with links to paywalled media (rare exceptions, tho) or YouTube anything until they change their policy regarding ad blockers. Paywallers and ad block blockers need to pay me in advance for promoting anything of theirs online. They don't get a free promotional ride on my dime.
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Unus Nemo
in reply to Radio Free Trumpistan • •@Radio Free Trumpistan
Welcome.
This instance will be around for a while or I hope it will 😉. I work full time so I do not always have as much free time as I would like to improve the instance.
I have done a lot of work to get it stable after the default installation. This has a lot to do with the fact that I do not like Ubuntu and have a lot more experience with Red Hat based GNU/Linux platforms than Debian. So I chose Rocky Linux 9 as my OS for my VPS where my instance resides. The developers of friendica use Debian based systems so I had to do some additional work to get my LAMP setup with all the PHP extensions required. I then had to trouble shoot some issues and adjust some settings for a more stable experience. The defaults are horrible.
Let me know if there is anything I can do to make your experience here more comfortable.
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Rock DJ
in reply to Unus Nemo • • •That's why I don't support rhel distros.
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There is no such thing as a best distro, only the distro that is best for you. Personally I use only RHEL based Distros and Arch and LFS.
I would much rather go through the work to install Friendica on Rocky the Open Source version of RHEL than to deal with Debian based systems again. That is just my opinion and fortunately I am competent enough to be able to make that decision. So I had to compile a few extensions from source and enable a few additional repos. A small price to pay to have an environment that I am more comfortable in.
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Unus Nemo
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Self hosting is not exactly a piece of cake 😉. And even after you got your Instance up and running you would not be able to control more than what Addon is available unless you are a developer. Then you still run into propagation issues as you have no user base.
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in reply to Unus Nemo • •Just as I suspected. 😁
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