Christopher M0YNG @M0YNG@mastodon.radio

It was suggested I post, and pin, a toot with information about what it costs to run this instance.
I like this, I want to be transparent, and I think it's important that the community have trust and confidence in me, and the hosting.

Currently the costs looks like this:

* £112.50 a year for a VPS
* €25.00 a year for the domain name

All media (avatars, etc.) are sotred on the server, we use 20G of 40G so far.

More details (and optional donations) at
https://liberapay.com/M0YNG

#instanceAdmin

A helpful guide on getting started with Mastodon.
https://kevq.uk/getting-started-with-mastodon/

One of the new features of mastdon v3 is the ability to list silenced/suspended.

users of mastodon.radio can see them here:
https://mastodon.radio/about/more#unavailable-content

#instanceAdmin

Huzzah!
mastodon.radio is now running Mastodon v3.0.1!

There are a lot of new things in this version.

Official blog:
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/10/mastodon-3.0/

Official In-Depth blog:
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/10/mastodon-3.0-in-depth/

Git change log for 3.0
https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v3.0.0

Git changelog for 3.0.1
https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v3.0.1

Bonjour @14FRS3613 !

@14FRS3613 please toot an #introductions so we can get to know you 😀 add some hastags too so we know what interests you.

You can find more people in the instance in the directory
https://mastodon.radio/explore
(you can opt into this too once you have 10 "friends", and add tags to your profile) and the local timeline.

And this list of radio amateurs on mastodon, may be of interest: https://pad.dc7ia.eu/p/radio_amateurs_on_the_fediverse

And there are apps!
https://joinmastodon.org/apps

Happy tooting!

I've had a ticket open with BrandMeister since 26th August and not had anything happen to it.

Does anyone know Mark Robinson or Rudy (PD0ZRY)? They are the two people who need to "approve" it apparently.

Or any other way to kick this?

#dmr #BrandMeister #amateurRadio

Think I've "derisked" the main bits of going from RF to fediverse.

Next step will be different message types, then I'll try handling actual messages.

#aprs #aprs2fedi

For example, @bandconditions does both.

APRS to Fediverse!

Should the accounts be;

* unlisted (so posts only show to followers)
* marked as bots (because a human isn't manually posting directly)

(you can pick both)

Something else?

#aprs #aprs2fediverse

Aprs to Fediverse. Some questions (polls will follow based on this poll's outcome)

Considering anyone could just put your callsign in the "from" field, I don't think it's desirable to accept toots directly from aprs and put them info your main account.

So, should it be a new instance like M0YNG@aprs.mastodon.radio, or a different account like M0YNG-aprs@mastodon.radio?

#aprs #aprs2fediverse

Looks like I'm going to be at the National Hamfest 🇬🇧 on Saturday.

Anyone else in the fediverse plan to be there?

#amateurRadio #hamRadio

Trying to use #WireGuard
Seems to work, I can connect from my phone and use the local network.

However, whenever I start the wire guard interface, my server loses Internet.

I'm sure I'm missing something obvious, but can't spot what it would be.

This happens with, and without, having iptables in the up commands.

Got the APRS radio back in the shed.

I want to do cool stuff with it (like aprs to Fediverse) but not had the time yet.

It has battery backup of sorts, a 12v slab connected to a cheap "battery float charger", but it is quite rf noisy. Another thing to fix.

I also want to do some proper packet radio stuff, so I really should solder the other tnc pi kit and connect up radio number 2!

New blog post!

APRS Talk - a companion

https://m0yng.uk/2019/09/APRS-Talk-a-companion/

#hamradio #amateurRadio #aprs

Following on from this. If you were following a real user of pawoo, I killed all the follows (easier than going through 60+ to work out which are real)

Apologies.

Feel free to re follow.

After, yet more, follow spam, I've silenced "pawoo.net".
(follow spam - one new account following thousands of accounts at random with no content)
(in this case, it's a few hundred individual accounts doing it too)

I'm not sure, but I hope this will reduce the issue.

They are a big instance with many legitimate users, so I don't want to block completely... but I might have to if we keep seeing this volume of spam.

#instanceAdmin @pawoo_support

I've spoken to mythic beasts, the hosting company I use for mastodon.radio.

They were excellent (as usual) and helped me identify the data centre the vps lives in.

They also pointed me to the data centre's "clean energy" page:
https://www.digitalrealty.com/about/sustainability/clean-energy

TL;DR
mastodon.radio is (probably) powered by renewable energy from the UK national grid.

Huzzah!

Today I have changed my gas tariff to carbon offset my gas usage too.