[Linux-aus] FOSS social media

Russell Coker russell at coker.com.au
Sun Feb 2 19:21:31 AEDT 2025


On Sunday, 2 February 2025 14:52:16 AEDT Kathy Reid via linux-aus wrote:
> > Why is that?  Is there something broken with the server or is there
> > something
> broken with the client?  Or do the LA people just ignore notifications?
> 
> It varies by server - sometimes the account will get replies from an account
> that the LinuxAustralia at fosstodon account does not follow, sometimes it
> will. I _suspect_ it is a factor of SideKiq - which is a best effort
> messaging service and part of the Mastodon platform. If fosstodon.org is
> overloaded, I may not get the reply. The reason fosstodon.org has gone
> invite only is that it's reaching capacity for what it is funded to do.

Why not use a different server then?  Mastodon is designed to make it easy to 
move between servers.

> This is incorrect. The most recent non-boost posts have been:
> 
> https://fosstodon.org/@linuxaustralia/113870943941548405

The problem was the abbreviation of the dates.  I took "Jan 23" to mean "Jan 
2023" not "23rd Jan this year".

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