Not much has changed, things are humming along with diasp.org and stable. I suppose I need to delete and move the https://twitter.com/diasporg account soon. On my to do list probably the end of the year unless twitter blows up. Not sure what to do about this old blog either. I think I will make a …
Author Archives: diasporg
Fediverse Observer
Well after 10 years or so with poduptime I finally realized that pod is very diaspora specific and its been many years where we have collected data from any server that supports nodeinfo from places like mastodon and friendica and lemmy etc. So it was time for a rebrand to https://fediverse.observer Yes as the name …
Mid year 2021 check-in
Well after a bumpy start to the year with the server blowup things are smooth sailing. New server is doing great! I have updated the server diagram with the new info. Sponsored By: Titan Investments
April 4th 2021 Datacenter Issue
Our host is having a datacenter major incident. I will update twitter when I know more. If you are being redirected here from diasp.org please flush your cache so you do not get stuck when pod back up 4/9/21 update. I have found a new host and have a server being built to host podupti.me, …
2021 diasp.org server setup
Every year this seems to get a bit more simple and cleaner! Lots more CPU power for 2021! diasp.org server move is scheduled for 11/17/2020 15:00:00 PST, 22:00:00 UTCwindow is 3 hours planned Here are the network updates: IPv4: 216.18.218.21 IPv6: 2607:f2d8:4010:35::21 I2p: diasporg.i2p Note, i2p is adding ssl certs, so you will be able …
Disable email on a diaspora user with bad email
I get some folks that are very active with bad email addresses and it causes a lot of extra work on postfix. To solve: RAILS_ENV=production bin/rails c user = User.find_by(email: ‘bad@email.net’) user.disable_mail = true user.save
2020 diasp.org server setup
Things will remain about the same as last year for the servers The diaspora code base has lightened up slightly as has the user base activity of the year This seems to keep things about right, the server is not blowing smoke but keeping up well
2020 Donation bar how to for diaspora podmins
Pod donations trickle in over the year, but doing a fundraiser with a progress bar seems to really help out to raise donations. How to: 1. /app/assets/stylesheets/stream.scss app/assets/stylesheets/stream.scss You need some css syles so add: #progressBar { width: 710px; height: 15px; border: 1px solid #111; } #progressBar div { height: 100%; color: #fff; text-align: right; …
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Find user by photo random guid
diasp:~/diaspora$ RAILS_ENV=production bin/rails c Loading production environment (Rails 5.1.6) 2.4.4 :001 > Photo.find_by(random_string: ‘369c458d9b5b659a8333’) => #<Photo id: 2135366, author_id: 377, public: true, guid: “fba50340b6990136292d047d7b62795e”, pending: false, text: nil, remote_photo_path: “https://diasp.org/uploads/images/”, remote_photo_name: “369c458d9b5b659a8333.jpg”, random_string: “369c458d9b5b659a8333”, processed_image: “369c458d9b5b659a8333.jpg”, created_at: “2018-10-20 13:28:41”, updated_at: “2018-10-20 13:28:52”, unprocessed_image: “369c458d9b5b659a8333.jpg”, status_message_guid: “025389a0b69a01362935047d7b62795e”, comments_count: nil, height: 3264, width: 1836> 2.4.4 :002 > …
add camo to eye for monitoring
https://git.feneas.org/diasporg/diaspora/blob/master/config/eye.rb See lines 54-67
update your diaspora pod
I made this simple script to make my life easier and do updates with no downtime. https://git.feneas.org/diasporg/diaspora/blob/master/script/update
Removing spammers on your pod
Assuming the issue is in your production diaspora db Grab the spam script. Mine is here https://git.feneas.org/diasporg/diaspora/blob/master/script/spam.rb Edit and add your users to remove on line 4. If more than one separate by space. Use full handle. Run it from command line ‘RAILS_ENV=production script/spam.rb’ Spammer gone. This also works for GPDR removal requests.
2018 progress bar for diaspora podmin donations
Pod donations trickle in over the year, but doing a fundraiser with a progress bar seems to really help out to raise donations. How to: 1. https://github.com/diasporg/diaspora/blob/master/app/assets/stylesheets/stream.scss app/assets/stylesheets/stream.scss You need some css syles so add: #progressBar { width: 710px; height: 15px; border: 1px solid #111; } #progressBar div { height: 100%; color: #fff; text-align: right; …
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2018 Diaspor{a,g} Network Diagram
I know I never post on here, but I like to be transparent on where data is stored for diasp.org diaspora pod, here is the setup I am running for 2018. I will try and blog more this year! Let’s see if that works at all 🙂 Also if you are a PHP …
2018
I know I have been horrible about blogging and all communication in general. Server is moved to a new host. Blog moved to new host. I will get a network map up soon!
Diaspor{a,g} Server configuration 2017
Not much to say, but I wanted to post the server setup for 2017.
i2p and tor access for diaspora
Well the pod now has some alternate than https type access https://diasporgc3d32vv4.onion the tor site uses the *.diasp.org ssl cert, since you trust that now you should trust that for .onion. .onion ssl certs are too hard to get for now. http://diasporg.i2p you need to enable “accept headers” in your http tor relay to allow …
VPS for testing and small things on a small budget
Well my DNS VPS ChesterVm host disappeared, 7 days offline now, no responses to tickets etc, pretty normal with that market. I did however after trolling WHT for a while find Hostsailor (affiliate link of course). They have openvz servers from 1.99 and Xen from 3.99. I am using one of the 1.99 openvz for …
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Change email address for a diaspora user from rails console
Just a tip on how to update a pod users email address if you need. In my example I need to edit production postgres DB user #5 and change their email. cd diaspora RAILS_ENV=production DB=postgres rails c user = User.find_by(id: 5) user.email = ‘newemail@example.org’ user.save And that is it. You can of course use this …
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Progress bar for diaspora pod donations
I added this little nifty JavaScript bar for 2016 pod donations and it worked well to get the server and costs paid for. Wanted to share with other podmins, so a step by step! With links to my code base so you can see it. Edit app/views/shared/_right_sections.html.haml Add to beginning: :javascript $(document).ready(function() {progress(103, $(‘#progressBar’));}); …
Diaspor{a,g} Server configuration 2016
I have not been using this blog much, I just updated it to https and upgraded it a lot, I will try and blog more this year! diaspora is looking better and better and my interest is back up a lot in the project. WordPress always amazes me how easy it is to use and …
Migrating diaspora from mysql to postgres
So I decided also on the update to move to postgresql. I found http://blog.koehn.com/technology/2014/08/21/diaspora-mariadb-to-postgres.html to be my best place to start, however I had lots of crap in my DB to also solve. First I have open_aspects and password_salt in my users table that should have dropped, so I did. Second, I had tons of …
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Happy New Year *Again*
Well its been a year again since my last blog post.. I moved to the east coast from the west coast, getting settled in. We have a new dog and 2 new cats here at the house. Not been as active on the pod as I would like, I think the slowness bugs me, but …
Happy New Year – Upgrade time!
Well its time to upgrade Ubuntu to the new LTS so I can keep up on packages. Tomorrow 1/10/2015 at 8am (UTC-8) I will start the update, a extra db backup even though I have a offsite nightly, db backup takes several hours to dump. I imagine pod will be offline for 2-3 hours if …
Happy Birthday to Diasporg and Happy Holidays
Well here we go today is November 5th, its been 4 years today since I launched diasp.org. I won’t try and recap it all, its been a lot of learning for me and I truly enjoy it. I have a host for the pod that is great. I get enough in donations most months to …
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Summer Update
Pod is humming along on its new host. Having everything on one server is working ok, our numbers are way down on users. I have registrations open, mostly because new users = some donations and we can handle the capacity, once I see that change I will close them again. Backups without the db on …
Happy New Year && Spring Cleaning Time!
Well since closing signups we have become a much quieter pod, donations are pretty quiet also, so its a chance once again to trim the pods server needs and move to a single large dedicated server. New datacentre, New host, the old one is very cost effective, but when things go wrong they are slow …
Fall pod update
Its been a rough week with getting hit with a spam flood of some sort, I was able to make some adjustments on the fly to connections and speeds, but need to spend some time to do more and get the OS’s updated on the servers. So Saturday 10/19/13 at 9am Pacific time I am …
podupti.me site
My VPS tanked 9am on 8/16. I am still working with my VPS host for a solution. They spun up a new VPS but it was not performing well. I hope for resolution today and will get the poduptime site back online first on the new box. Also it looks like the dia.so site css …
Pod down IP issues
My IP’s have been suspended by my host for to much email traffic or some BS, working to resolve. http://www.senderbase.org/lookup?search_string=204.12.211.42 Moved email to 3rd party smtp and waiting for them to unblock the IP’s Make sure you follow me https://www.facebook.com/Diasp.org and https://twitter.com/diasporg
restoring blog and dia.so
Found a partial blog backup and restored. Working to restore dia.so currently, I do not think I will find a db backup for in 🙁
dia.so URL and Diaspora service hub
If you are a diasp.org user you have seen dia.so URL’s and can shorten any URL with it inside Diaspora. I have offered others to use it, but no one has bitten, that’s ok! I did just launch a profile shortner on the main dia.so page. Idea is to simplify connecting with others via a …
Android App for podupti.me
Well I spent sometime setting up Eclipse and the Android SDK. Then I remembered App Builder and wanted to give it a try. So I wrote this little ditty for podupti.me to promote Diaspora overall. Its just basic and I am sure some ideas will come to mind on how to make it better! Click …
August Pod Update!
Well we survived the doors of my host closing and are now on a dedicated server! Its humming along just fine.Still trying to get back some $ from the VPS jumps and loosing the clubuptime one. But people have been donating and signing up for the coffee subscription and helping out, Thank You! The Diaspora …
Servers, Issues – August.
Most of you know my host http://clubuptime.com closed its doors last week. Zero notice, just pulled the plug and no server. I was able to get the pod back up in a few hours using a backup from the night before and a VPS I was able to get spun up from a deal on …
July Pod Update
I first want to really thank the folks who have subscribed/flattrd or donated, I really appreciate your help and am back at the break even point and that’s right where I want/need to be! The server speed seems to be holding steady and all is working ok. I personally have been working on other things …
Pod Privacy Policy
Here is the privacy policy of diasp.org, http://diasp.org/privacy-policy.html My main connection, http://www.wholesaleinternet.com/ I store my pod database backups and photo backups at another host I use, http://order.1and1.com/xml/order/PrivacyPolicy
Official news from Diaspora team
The core team has a new post no on their blog It’s hard to believe, but we’ve been working on Diaspora for a whole year now. And I am happy to report that we’re still here, and we’re going strong. From those first pizza-fueled nights in the ACM room at NYU, to the Kickstarter …
Formatting Text on Diaspora | Different Computers
Diaspora has a variety of ways for you to make your text less than plain. For those who know what Mark Down is, Diaspora uses a partial subset of that. But it also does things a bit like Twitter does, and a bit like Facebook stole from Twitter. Most of these formatting tricks work in …
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Server move tomorrow the 30th
Tomorrow morning I will be moving the pod to its new home. My host ClubUptime has discontinued their OpenVZ VPS and only offers Xen VPS now, this is a good thing. Downtime should be very minimal as I have things all set up, however it does have a new IP (50.23.213.171) and updating DNS always …
Diaspora* Pod Stats & Status April 2011 Update
April 2011 Pod update Well I have been pretty busy with work and some other projects, but thought I would do a pod update. Diaspora* has been on my backburner a bit, but the Dev’s seem hard at work and I still update the code everyday to the pod. First off I made a plea …
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New pod domain name poll
My friend wants to start up a pod, I have some domain names he can use but not sure what to use! What do you think would be hip and cool? [bwpdaddy id=’4960752′]
A Tutorial and Introduction to Diaspora for Users | Different Computers
A Tutorial and Introduction to Diaspora for Users | Different Computers.
An Introduction to the Federated Social Network | Electronic Frontier Foundation
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/03/introduction-distributed-social-network
Taking a Look at Social Network Diaspora | NYConvergence.com
http://nyconvergence.com/2011/03/taking-a-look-at-social-network-diaspora.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
Diaspora* Changes and Updates 3/12/11
Well the dev team has pushed a lot of stuff out already this month: -Images inline bigger now -Audio Inline .mp3 (you need a html5 like chrome to see it) -RSS feeds are fixed, see your feed at http://diasp.org/public/username -Public profile, see yours at https://diasp.org/people/youruserid (logout to see what the world will see) -Hashtags #tryit …
Activist Michael Anti Furious He Lost Facebook Account–While Zuckerbergs Dog Has Own Page
ActivistMichaelAntiFuriousHeLostFacebookAccount–WhileZuckerbergsDogHasOwnPage.
Diaspora at Branddr
http://branddr.com/diaspora
4 Lines of Code facebook vs. Diaspora
http://4loc.wordpress.com/2011/03/02/facebook-vs-diaspora/
Diaspora, social network alternativo a Facebook piace agli utenti
Diaspora,socialnetworkalternativoaFacebookpiaceagliutenti-NewsInternet-TuttoGratis.
Eben Moglen Is Reshaping Internet With a Freedom Box – NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/16/nyregion/16about.html?_r=2
Diaspora NYU case study
http://www.nyu.edu/about/university-initiatives/entrepreneurship/nyu-ventures/case-studies/diaspora.html
Saudi King to buy Facebook for $150 billion to end the revolt: Goldman Sachs to advise | Dawn Wires: World News 2.0
Saudi King to buy Facebook for $150 billion to end the revolt: Goldman Sachs to advise | Dawn Wires: World News 2.0.
Diaspora — Red Social – Taringa!
Diaspora — Red Social – Taringa!.