Notices by ⁣Una, the moon minus two (unascribed@sleeping.town), page 25

ETHO NO

"I'm punching it in on a calculator and I just got an error. That's not good." -- Etho, after attempting to calculate how much EMC is required to make 45 Shiny Singularities

last week I started Project Jortage, a collaboratively paid for S3-compatible media storage solution for fediverse instances

instances can join the pool for free, optionally donating to our OpenCollective. Jortage primarily offers cross-instance media deduplication which is a huge gain for Mastodon instances that indiscriminately copy all media

current members include sleeping.town, glaceon.social, toot.cat, donphan.social, cryptid.industries, and a smattering of personal instances

learn more: https://jortage.com
join by emailing hello@jortage.com or DMing me; I'll walk you through migrating from your current media storage

woom'st'd've

another case against circle avatars

Instance admins: I'm considering building a media pool/admin alliance I'm tentatively calling "Jortage" (jean storage) because, why not. (Also the domain is available.)

I'd be willing to do initial setup and handle accounts, as well as write scripts to ease migration; the idea is we'd all pay for the server together, based on ability to pay, to the point of poorer instance admins getting to use it for free.

The approximate cost of a server with sufficient disk to self-host a future-proof shared media server and handle initial imports is $200/mo; I'm currently looking at a server with OVH in eastern Canada offering 8TB on RAID6/RAID10 with guaranteed gigabit symmetric, but am open to other suggestions. Other hosts I know of are on ColoCrossing or are far too expensive.

This would offer a viable alternative to Wasabi, S3, DigitalOcean Spaces, Azure Storage, Google Cloud Storage, et al for instance admins, with hopefully better uptime compared to Wasabi, and without being affiliated with Amazon, Google, or Microsoft. Mastodon additionally duplicates remote media, which costs everyone extra on these platforms, but on here it'd get deduplicated and be a non-issue.

If you're an instance admin and are interested, please reply to this post saying so and mention approximately how many US$ per month you could comfortably contribute ($0 is a valid answer). Also mention if you'd be willing to help with administrating the server. If you're not an instance admin, also feel free to mention how much you could contribute, if you want. I'm considering OpenCollective for managing collecting money and transparently paying server bills, but am obviously open to other suggestions.

all the shops have doors around front except "ZOOM TAX SERVICE" and Sharing Wheels

cryptid bike shop

i had a distinct feeling of unease as I tried the unmarked blue door earlier today to try to get to Sharing Wheels

the door was locked