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It is time to shut down the FragDev GNUsocial instance; it will be taken down on June 30th, 2017. I've thought a lot about this, and due to some new developments in my life and the resources an instance requires, this seems like a good time to call it quits.
Read the full post: Micro.fragdev.com is shutting down
GNUsocial is the most demanding services I run, by far. The strain on the database from all of the different GNUsocial, Friendica, etc. instances retrieving their subscribed users' feeds is more than I anticipated. Luckily, this story has a happy ending!
Read the full post: Fixing performance issues in GNUsocial
After running GNUsocial for years, I've chiseled my GNUsocial setup into something fairly fast and respectable (mostly through consistent experimentation and breakages. Sorry, users). Newer configuration changes require Debian 8, or "Jessie", so I thought I'd make a new post explaining things.
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There have been lots of problems with my GNUsocial instance, starting at the very beginning with Identi.ca and windigo@micro.fragdev.net (which rendered Identi.ca users unable to subscribe to me). I've learned a lot, but now I feel like I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place.
Read the full post: Why micro.fragdev.com is broken
In a previous post (https://fragdev.com/blog/why-micro-fragdev-com-is-broken), I explained what happened to break subscriptions on our GNUsocial instance. Long story short: GNUsocial now forces HTTPS, which broke federation.
Read the full post: How micro.fragdev.com was fixed
Update: Tobias provided a canonical link to his StatusNet Move Account script.
Read the full post: GNUsocial Migration Script
After the migration to the new server, my old SysV init script for restarting the queue daemons needed to be updated to systemd.
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With over 50 registered users, the FragDev GNUsocial instance is much larger than I ever expected it to grow. To be honest, I figured it would probably be my own personal instance and not much more.
Read the full post: No Vacancy
UPDATED 2016-04-29: Updated for Debian 8 in GNUsocial on nginx and Debian 8.
Read the full post: GNUsocial on nginx with PHP-FPM
The "fediverse", as we call it, is a collection of self-hosted servers that communicate and federate with each other using open protocols. GNUsocial is one such server, and that's the one I run on my server. Friendica is another piece of software that does a similar job. These servers are designed to work together, unless I mess that up.
Read the full post: I am the problem