Tootfinder

The pruning of accounts on #footiMac #selfhost is finally complete! That procedure alone ‘pruned' 314348 accounts and 100GB of related data on disk. Now... to do a few more cleaning tasks, as per recommendations from friends here. We're going to dive right in to tootctl media remove which should remove a LOT of remove media from the system. :)

i think my pixelfed install has been slowing down #footiMac! I stopped it temporarily just to see if it would help and things sped up and responded immediately. So I may keep my pixelfed instance offline for the foreseeable future. I don't use it anyway. Maybe i'll test it out on my external host rather #footiMac just to take away any multi-hosted issues.
I'm now at 4.4.0 and am now moving to 4.4.1. Should be done shortly!
#Pixelfed #Mastodon #upgrade #Debian

proud of little #footiMac. 2008 Core2 Duo iMac with 16GB RAM and a 1.5TB SSD
She's done excellent work in her space under the stairs. nearly a full year of uptime and chugging away doing Mastodon, Pixelfed (until just now), weewx Weather server, homebridge, streaming relay point, and general web server.
My next trick will be to see if I can move mastodon from using local storage for media to using cloud storage. I'm at about 70% usage now, so it's time.
Your old computers always have a purpose friends! Don't throw them away!
#selfhost #footiMac #Pixelfed #Mastodon #upgrade #Debian

I think maybe it isn't #mastodon that is slowing down and filling up #footiMac.
It's the 700GB of webcam images/videos.
Just bought a fast dual USB A/C 500GB flash stick to offload this stuff and lighten things up a bit.
This is stuff I need to archive anyway. I want to gradually build a physical USB stick based digital library of webcam imagery from the cams @….
#mastoadmin #weather #webcams

#selfhost v4.4.1 upgrade complete! Phew that was a long one. But I think I found the root of the issue in the zombie pixelfed install. Maybe it had a memory leak (it wasn’t a current version) or maybe it was just too much for #footiMac.. but it was definitely slowing things down. Things are much more responsive now in general. I guess that brings the pixelfed testing to an end for now. But I'll probably bring it back up elsewhere if I get a chance.
#Pixelfed #Mastodon #upgrade #Debian

When I wrote my last post above I got an error from my instance that the post was over the 500 character limit. Which is odd, since I have the limit set to 2000 on my instance.
Sure enough, it looks like somewhere along the line I blew away the config files that had been edited to enable the longer posts.
So consider this a test to see if I have correctly re-applied the hack, which is what it is, and completely unnecessarily, in the code for mastodon when this should be a simple switch/option in the admin panel!
(edit: confirmed: 2000 character limit restored)
#selfhost #footiMac #Pixelfed #Mastodon #upgrade #Debian

Ok #mastoadmin #selfhost #S3 aficionados. I don’t have any experience with object storage providers. I am looking to move my self-host mastodon account here from local storage on my 2007 #footimac to my account at leaseweb. Could you help me with the answers to their queries? I suggested, completely off the top of my head and without experience, i would need 1.5TB and low bandwidth. Not knowing if that makes any sense.
“ for a 1.5 TB provision with low bandwidth usage, we can provide an estimate once we have more context on access patterns, regions, and any specific requirements.”
Thanks for any help!
#askfedi #fedihelp
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