Jan-Lukas Else

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Published on 2022-12-25 in 💬 Micro

Updated on 2022-12-25

Short link: https://b.jlel.se/s/64f

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Just setting up a quick Mastodon instance to test some compatibility is a pain. Using test accounts on public instances is also unreliable, because many instances are already overloaded and I don’t want to create spam. So I got a new DigitalOcean account with a $200 starter credit…

DigitalOcean has a simplified Mastodon setup and now I can try to improve my ActivityPub implementation during the next two months and then probably have to create a new DigitalOcean account.

By the way, happy holidays! 🎄 My family’s Christmas wasn’t as expected. On Wednesday evening I got sick (I guess it’s RSV). But my girlfriend and my sister are also sick. 🤒 Today is my first day without fever, but it doesn’t feel like that.

Interactions & Comments

jwb @en get well!
- Jan-Lukas Else Thank you, I’m already feeling better! 🙂
Henrique Dias @en@jlelse.blog Oh, no! I hope you get well quickly. Nevertheless, I hope you can still enjoy the time somehow 😌
- Jan-Lukas Else Thank you! We made the best out of it. 😄
jlg @jlelse Aww man-- Vivaldi's instance is easy to spin up and use for that aspect then spin back down if you just needed a test.
Jan-Lukas Else My next Fediverse migration? I currently use GoToSocial (with my numeronym domain) next to my blog, but it always confuses me where to post what. That’s why I want to move to my blog as my sole Fediverse identity. But before that, I wanted to implement another Fediverse feature in GoBlog: support for the new fediverse:creator meta tag. The last time I really did something in the ActivityPub area of GoBlog, I set up a Mastodon instance on a DigitalOcean VPS. This time, I installed a test instance of Mastodon on my (underu…
- Andrés Cárdenas This sounds interesting! Do you think it’d be possible to follow people from this Fediverse implementation? I mean, Miniflux can do the actual fetching of posts, but it’d be nice to let people know I am following then. Or what do you think?