Ruud

ruud@friendica.world

I am Ruud from The Netherlands.
I run Fediverse instances like Friendica.World, Mastodon.World, Lemmy.World and others.
See our foundation's website for a list: fedihosting.foundation

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@ruud:lemmy.world

We're continuing investigation to the performance issues, you can follow and react here: https://lemmy.world/c/friendicaworld

Ruud

10 months ago

Ruud
10 months ago

An update on the worker issue at Friendica.World

I haven't heard back on the GitHub issue for a few days now. Not sure we'll be able to get the process tuned to get more jobs done any time soon.
Meanwhile, it seems the speed has improved a bit without any changes, no idea why. It's now doing a bit over 70000 jobs per day. The queue currently is at 370000, which means somewhere this weekend it should be caught up.

Then we can carefully try to re-enable some features that we disabled, like the Bluesky bridge, and contacts discovery etc.

I've opened a second issue for help on enabling the mail connector: github.com/friendica/friendica…

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Mike Höhn

in reply to Ruud 10 months ago

My frst post from 12 days ago has now been processed... 🥳 Let's hope it keeps catching up fast enough.

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10 months ago

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10 months ago

Where else to find the Belgian Wafels than in Manhattan.

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10 months ago

Ruud
10 months ago

Welcome to Friendica.World !

I had set this server up a while ago, but with the recent FB drama, we see a lot of new users registering. Almost a thousand, and counting!

Let's first introduce myself, I am Ruud, a database admin from The Netherlands who as a hobby hosts Fediverse instances like mastodon.world, lemmy.world and a lot of others.
Together with @stux⚡ I founded a non-profit foundation for owning our instances: fedihosting.foundation.

The Friendica.World server isn't 100% ready, there's still some tweaking and polishing needed. For example we need to add a ToS and rules. They will be the same as on mastodo

I had set this server up a while ago, but with the recent FB drama, we see a lot of new users registering. Almost a thousand, and counting!

The Friendica.World server isn't 100% ready, there's still some tweaking and polishing needed. For example we need to add a ToS and rules. They will be the same as on mastodon.world/about

Also, we are still trying to resolve an issue where the jobs aren't being processed as quickly as we would like. We've opened an issue with the Friendica developers: github.com/friendica/friendica…
Currently there are 612000 jobs still pending and daily this gets down by 39000 jobs, so after 16 days it should be at 0 and everything should be instantaneous. We're hoping we can somehow speed this up.
Result of this issue is that things are lagging behind, like federation to other servers (mastodon, other friendica's etc), notifications etc.

We hope you'll bear with us until this is fixed.

Meanwhile, check out a set of tutorial videos: peertube.stream/w/7cntKfMgHqX9…

If you have any questions or remarks, message me, or mail info@friendica.world.

If you would like to support us and help covering the hosting costs, you can do so here: ko-fi.com/fhfworld

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Anubis2814

2024-01-05 21:22:20

Friendica tutorial Pt 1 of 6: Explaining Friendica/Facebook comparisons and how to join. Ver 2023.12

Since the internet was severely lacking it, This is a comprehensive tutorial on how you can do pretty much anything in friendica that you can on facebook. This episode covers how how to join friendica, how to customize your profile, how to make a post, and join a group. PS this is an atheist/liberal/leftish channel and my opinions and beliefs are not that of the friendica organization, so please do not let any of the examples I use have any impact on whether or not you decide to use the site.
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Esko Arajärvi

in reply to Ruud 10 months ago

It seems that there is a lot of background work going on. I'll have to follow this to see if it will be resolved, or if we would need more resources. Some updates may be delayed.

Ruud

10 months ago

Ruud
10 months ago

Bluesky addon disabled temporarily

Due to the ongoing backlog in worker jobs, I've disabled the Bluesky addon. This generated a lot of extra jobs, and I want to focus on getting the queue empty and the worker issue fixed before enabling it again.

Sorry about that.

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Ruud

in reply to Ruud 10 months ago

At the current rate, it would take 19 days to get the job queue processed. This is not acceptable so we keep working on this issue.

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10 months ago

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10 months ago

Yes it seems large image uploads now work, thank you @Mike Höhn for the tip

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10 months ago

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10 months ago

For those new to Friendica, here's a playlist of videos explaining the features:
peertube.stream/w/p/4K4MWYXMEY…

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Sunshine

in reply to Ruud 10 months ago

Friendica and Peertube are godsends!

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Cătă

in reply to Ruud 10 months ago from Not sent from my iPhone (I don't have one)

@Ruud Very well. There's also !Friendica Support for any questions not covered in the videos

@Ruud !Friendica Support

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10 months ago

Ruud
10 months ago

Some issues still with Friendica.World

There still are some issues with Friendica.World (but we're working on it...)

First and foremost, the worker, which is executing the jobs (which do everything ) can't keep up. This is being addressed in github.com/friendica/friendica…

Then, image uploads don't work for large images (over 5MB?), while the settings have a max of 200MB defined (and php.ini has 500MB)

Lastly (for now), the backup locks the database. We need to test to use options to skip the locking of tables.

If there are any other issues you notice, let us know!

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Mike Höhn

in reply to Ruud 10 months ago from Tusky

Some issues still with Friendica.World

@ruud Is Friendica set to the 200MB limit? When trying to upload an image in the image section of my profile, I get an error message shown, where 'nginx ' is printed below the actual image error message. This doesn't look like a PHP error message to me. I haven't ever used nginx, though.
A quick search reveals that nginx has a client_max_body_size parameter to limit the size of uploads. The default is 1MB. Could this be the problem?

I have posted this with Tusky.

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Ruud

in reply to Mike Höhn 10 months ago

I will look into that, thanks!

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Ruud

in reply to Mike Höhn 10 months ago

Yes that fixed it, thanks!

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Mike Höhn

in reply to Ruud 10 months ago

Great, it works now. Thank you! 🙂

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11 months ago

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11 months ago

@RaccoonForFriendica new version 0.4.0-beta04 available for testing!

Changelog:
- fix for a bug after adding/removing a post to favorites which led to lose custom emojis;
- fix spacing between post and reply placeholders when using the new Card layout;
- fix a minor accessibility issue with the new audio player;
- fix crash when rendering some HTML posts;
- fix "floating" (overlapping) images for embedded contents;
- localization updates (included support for upcoming Romanian translation);
- library updates.

I think we are almost ready for the 0.4 version. In the meantime I've submitted both Raccoon apps to Google Play so I may be needed some volunteers to participate in the closed testing program before the apps can be made available to the general public.

Happy New Year and remember to #livefasteatrash

#procyonproject #raccoonforfriendica #fediverseapp #friendica #friendicadev #mobileapp #mobiledev #kotlin #kmp #compose #opensource #foss #sideproject

#friendica #foss #opensource #mobileapp #kotlin #mobiledev #friendicadev #compose #kmp #FediverseApp #sideproject #raccoonforfriendica #procyonproject #livefasteatrash @RaccoonForFriendica

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11 months ago

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11 months ago

New server

I have moved Friendica.World to a new server. Now I'm sure the server performance isn't causing the worker issue

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Alex Panayotopoulos

in reply to Ruud 10 months ago

Hello, I just signed up but I can't seem to set my password? It keeps telling me "Login failed" when I attempt it.

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Alex Panayotopoulos

in reply to Alex Panayotopoulos 10 months ago

I've sorted it now. What might have happened is that copying the password out of the email included a tab character. I'll submit a bug report.

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Helen Jojo Blackforest

in reply to Alex Panayotopoulos 10 months ago

That happened to me, too. I haven't tried since a day or so ago.

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Alex Panayotopoulos

in reply to Helen Jojo Blackforest 10 months ago

What I ended up having to do is copy and paste into notepad, delete the tab character, and then re-copy. Not ideal!

Ruud

11 months ago

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11 months ago

Sorry for the downtime and delays last few days

I am still trying to get the jobs being processed faster. It looks like something is wrong with that, I've opened a ticket at Friendica's Github about it (github.com/friendica/friendica…)

While trying to troubleshoot/tune, I managed to get the site broken a few times.
Also, our hoster Hetzner had an issue today causing the server to go down.

Hopefully the downtime will be minimal from now on. Also I scaled up the server significantly. Now we just need a solution for the worker not working as it should (see beforementioned issue on Github) I hope you'll be patient

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11 months ago

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11 months ago

Worker issue causing Friendica.World to lag behind

We have an issue with the worker not going through the jobs fast enough, causing the instance to lag behind.
I'll create a ticket with Friendica and try to resolve this ASAP.

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n816 Media

in reply to Ruud 11 months ago

Nice, apparently some updates from external fediverse accounts are not made since a week now.

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11 months ago

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11 months ago

Trying to tune Friendica...

Trying to tune friendica to get it to process the job queue faster.
So far just managed to break the site...

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1 year ago

Ruud
1 year ago

Blocking

Hmm how can I block an account so I don't see their posts in the local and global timelines anymore?

Some people post stuff that I don't agree with, but as long as it's not against the server rules (ahh, I still need to write those down...) I won't delete the account from the server.

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1 year ago

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1 year ago

Bluesky addon

I have enabled the Bluesky addon on Friendica.world

I have tested (connected this account to @friendicaworld.bsky.social) which seems to work. My posts arrive on Bluesky.

So far, I have 2 findings:
- I couldn't yet get it to work when using a self-hosted PDS (I host bskysocial.world)
- I also couldn't get the friendica.world domain to work yet.
I see that it tries to go to ruud.friendica.world/.well-kno… so I enabled wildcard subdomains. That worked, but now there's no content in .well-known/atproto-did so I need to figure out how to get that there.

To be continued...

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Johnny Cosme

in reply to Ruud 10 months ago

Has the setting been disabled now? I still have the users, but the setting is not in Social Networks, like it is on my Venera.Social account. Thanks!

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1 year ago

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1 year ago

Testing!

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1 year ago

Ruud
1 year ago

Friendica.World performance

I did some tweaking of the database settings. I also want to scale up the server, but Hetzner has some capacity problems so currently higher plans are unavailable.. I'll keep an eye on that.

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1 year ago

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1 year ago

I saw that the Friendica instance was getting a backlog of worker jobs. So I have tuned the worker settings, now it seems to be catching up. It's at job 8730 of 23500.

I might tune it some more later, and scale up the server if needed.

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1 year ago

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1 year ago

This is a test post with a picture of our puppy. I don't see an option to provide alt-text for the image though?

but the editor does have markdown!

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Tuhgy

in reply to Ruud 1 year ago

Doing a quick search returned this issue regarding the alt-text: github.com/friendica/friendica…

Add img alt text for Accessibility · Issue #12650 · friendica/friendica

Problem: There is no easy way to add image alt text for accessibility Suggestion: When a user has provided a string in the Image Caption field, automatically add it as alt text in the img tag. Manu...

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Ruud

in reply to Tuhgy 1 year ago

Ah yes, thanks. So I can set the alt text by typing it between [img=] and [/img]. Cool. Tested it and works.

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Cătă

in reply to Ruud 1 year ago

@ruud Friendica uses BBCode internally, although it does support Markdown as well (it is parsed as BBCode, so that's what you will see when editing your posts).

The syntax indeed is [img=link/to/image (it will be an internal link if you upload the image straight to your friendica instance)]alt-text[/img].

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Poliverso - notizie dal Fediverso ⁂

in reply to Ruud 1 year ago

@Ruud it's written in Italian, but it should be easy to translate it automatically

poliverso.org/display/0477a01e…

Signor Amministratore ⁂

2024-09-20 09:33:19

Friendica: come inserire il testo alternativo per le immagini, dall'interfaccia web
@Che succede nel Fediverso?
Quando si pubblicano immagini sui social network, è importante inserire il testo alternativo. Questo infatti può aiutare le persone con disabilità visive a comprendere il contenuto delle immagini attraverso l'uso di screen reader e dimostra un impegno verso l'inclusività, rendendo i tuoi contenuti accessibili a un pubblico più ampio.
Inoltre può fornire un contesto aggiuntivo per gli utenti che potrebbero avere problemi a caricare le immagini a causa di una connessione internet lenta.
Friendica offre la possibilità di aggiungere il testo alternativo, ma può essere un po' complicato aggiungerlo quando si utilizza il browser.
Infatti, quando si aggiunge un'immagine in Friendica noi vedremo il codice dell'incorporamento dell'immagine, che risulterà più o meno così:
[url=https://NOME_ISTANZA/photos/NOME_UTENTE/image/IDENTIFICATIVO_IMMAGINE][img=https://friendica.world/photo/preview/1024/8220][/img][/url]
In dettaglio:
[url=https://NOME_ISTANZA/photos/NOME_UTENTE/image/IDENTIFICATIVO_IMMAGINE]
      [img=https://friendica.world/photo/preview/1024/8220]
      [/img]
[/url]
Il testo alternativo, andrà inserito proprio tra i tag di apertura [img=xxx] e il tag di chiusura [/img]. Quindi:
[url=https://NOME_ISTANZA/photos/NOME_UTENTE/image/IDENTIFICATIVO_IMMAGINE]
      [img=https://friendica.world/photo/preview/1024/8220]
            Testo alternativo
      [/img]
[/url]
O, più realisticamente
[url=https://NOME_ISTANZA/photos/NOME_UTENTE/image/IDENTIFICATIVO_IMMAGINE][img=https://friendica.world/photo/preview/1024/8220]Testo alternativo[/img][/url]

Ecco un esempio reale:
[url=https://poliverso.org/photos/admin/image/1997546105611028f975883153721557][img=https://friendica.world/photo/preview/1024/8221]Lo stercorario trascina una palla di sterco: nella simbologia egizia rappresentava l'amministratore di un'istanza pubblica del Fediverso[/img][/url]
Ch diventa:
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Facile, no? Ok... non è facile per niente. Ma ormai lo abbiamo capito: Friendica è davvero un software molto potente, ma -a discapito del nome- non è affatto amichevole! 🤣
#FriendicaIsNotFriendly

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Poliverso - notizie dal Fediverso ⁂

in reply to Poliverso - notizie dal Fediverso ⁂ 1 year ago

@Ruud This is what I learned in three years of Friendica. I hope it can be useful to you

(this also needs to be translated from Italian)

informapirata.it/2024/07/25/w-…

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Ruud

in reply to Poliverso - notizie dal Fediverso ⁂ 1 year ago

Oh wow that looks useful! I'll get it through Google Translate and read it later today!

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Ruud

1 year ago

Ruud
1 year ago

@Tom Welcome, Tom!

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Tom

in reply to Ruud 1 year ago

Thanks! Not sure if I'll stick around, I was mostly just excited to try it out after reading this blog post the other day blog.elenarossini.com/the-futu…