Jerry on PieFed

Yes, that happened once and I quickly removed the account. Because I leave the site open, I need to be prepared to put in the extra time to moderate it.

I’ve been running a Peertube instance for, I think, at least 2 years now? My registrations are open. I have some large initial limitations on upload sizes too and will adjust them up even higher as I see that videos being posted aren’t violating the rules.

Why do I keep registration open in mine?

I suppose it comes down to why the site was created. My reason was simply to provide an alternative to YouTube, on principal, and as an advocate against corporate control and ownership over people and their videos. Given this, at least for my site, “I just wanna upload stuff” IS a valid reason to open an account on my site.

I’m glad you asked. This has been irritating me for a long time.

This tells me that you’d be in a lot of trouble if you lost your phone or had to wipe it because someone got into it. It’s probably good then that you’re now thinking about this so you can prepare for a time when you won’t have your phone for other reasons.

All sites supporting 2FA usually allow you to use a second method. Email is usually an alternative. Assuming that your email is your universal second OTP method, you just need to make sure you will always have access to your email account and you’ll be fine. So just solve for the OTP problem for your email account.

Pre-buy your burner phone and make it a second OTP device for your email account. For more assurance, buy a couple of physical keys (like Yubikey) that can be used with your email account. These can also be set up for some of your other accounts that support it, which may be more convenient than email when accessing them.

This better be an April Fools joke

Yes, it’s worth it. I own mine for just the reason you give. You can take it to any other provider. And there’s no danger of the email provider deciding to close your account or cutting you off unexpectedly. Imagine losing your email access. At least with your own domain, you can switch it that same day to someone else.

Unsure about whois lookup privacy. My registrar hides my details as an option. Anyone looking up the domain just sees them as the contact for the domain.

Have you tried asking in helpers@forum.friendi.ca, the Friendica support group?

Are you using an obscure email provider? They may be rejecting the emails based on the domain name or because the IP address was used for spam ages ago.

I run a number of Fediverse servers and rarely, but occasionally, run into a situation where an obscure email provider rejects my server emails out-of-hand as spam. I think in my case it’s because the IP address of my server, maybe years ago, before I had it, was used for spamming or something.

Anyway, if you’re not using a mainstream email provider, you might try using a different email address.

Yep. A “private” message where the recipient is listed in the message is a DM in Mastodon. It will only be delivered to the mentioned person.

In smaller instances, you can easily reach the Admin and are much more likely to get a response. Also, the moderation is likely done completely by the Admin and not by a less-invested person who might be enjoying the power and control of being a moderator.

From my experience, about 80% of opened reports are self-resolvable and don’t need Admins or moderators and is just someone seeing the world through a biased lens, so everything they don’t believe becomes misinformation, and they start opening reports for vengeance. When many of these keep coming, it wears Admins and moderators down, and they are more likely to just ban than respond. This fatigue is not something a small instance Admin experiences. They give more thought to the situation.

I was banned on mastodon . social because someone who disagreed with me perfectly crafted a complaint (they apparently had a lot of experience doing this) that took what I wrote out of context to seem like I was saying something else, and .social banned me instantly and denied the appeal. The claim was total fiction. They didn’t care. They had a stack of reports to get through. I had no hope of reaching an Admin.

I never used a large instance again.

Just something, maybe, to think about.

As one Admin to another, I’m sad to hear that we’re losing a good instance. And, I’m sorry that people ruined your fun.

Thanks for all you’ve done. All the best to you.

There were two screen shots. I saw them. At least one of them was doctored. That is all anybody knows. How are some people so certain which Admin doctored the screen shot?

RE: it seems like the only way to have a reasonable chance of getting decent results for hashtag searches is to be on the biggest server

Well, yes, and no. You can relay with other Mastodon instances and they will share there traffic with you so that people on your instance will have the same content as on their instances PLUS the traffic from all the other instances that are relaying with them as well. So, your server will see a ton of stuff. No shortage of stuff coming in

There’s a number of good relays. I recommend these two at a minimum:

https://relay.infosec.exchange/inbox
https://bigrelay.social/inbox

In the Administration section, there’s a Relay page where you can put these in.

For the first one, @Jerry is the person to contact if it doesn’t enable for you. Not sure how many instances relay with him, but it must be a large number.

For the second one, which currently has 328 instances connected together, you can get more information at https://bigrelay.social/

Hope this helps