When people ask for their Mastodon character limit to be increased they often don't realize that custom code is required. It's one of many requests that we get for changes to the codebase of the services we host. What can we do? Also, in the mo...
After a tough couple of weeks for a wave of migrations to FediHost has made us wonder what our policies and procedures should be on making the move. Our documentation on how to migrate to FediHost https://fedihost.co/blog/slu...
Paige and Victor get into the weeds with Rimu the creator of Piefed. What is the secret to Piefed's rapid development and what direction is is Piefed rapidly developing? Find Rimu: [@rimu@mastodon.nzoss.nz) (https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@rimu) [@...
As FediHost grows so do our support tickets and several patterns have us wondering if this is our reality now. Is DNS configuration just the cost of doing business? Is Victor's signal number the official fediverse support hotline? Is Paige hiding ...
Will the true north strong and free Carney Diem? On a per-capita basis Canada is having an outsized impact on the Fediverse. Can we convince our government that a tiny amount of funding and policy support could pay massive social and financially a...
Going it alone on the Fediverse with a solo-instance isn't just more expensive, it's not the optimal user experience. Find Victor: @kini@maro.xyz Find Paige: [@paige@canadiancivil.com](https://masto.canadiancivil.com/@...
Join us in #Montreal for Activity In The Park on September 11th. https://mobilisons.ch/events/5b638d25-41d0-4e34-8b85-281733129722 There is another event in #Montreal on September 24th: https://don.n00q.net/@n00q/115107906870551376 Our resourc...
Despite spending the last year dancing around like birds of paradise Victor and Paige have failed to attract the attention of a serious search engine suito...
Paige (@paige@canadiancivil.com) gets all excited about Lemmy, PieFed and Mbin but starts to wonder if it's just because he's always liked the digg inspired link aggregation and threaded comment voting thing. To find out he asks regularly Reddit b...
Former transit YouTuber and current father of human Reece Martin joins Victor and Paige to talk about why he is a long buy on the fediverse (This is not financial advice). Find Victor: @kini@maro.xyz Find Paige: [@paig...
We now support GoToSocial which is an interesting lightweight alternative to Mastodon. But why doesn't it have the lightweight price we expected (yet)? Victor talks (https://maro.xyz/@kini) while Paige (@paige@canadiancivil.com) listens. Get a ...
Come on down to Activity in the Pub in July to hang out with some FediFriends in Montreal. 10th July, 6:15PM 3 Brasseurs, 105 Rue Saint-Paul Est, Montreal RSVP: https://mobilisons.ch/events/8e9e0fb1-329b-45bc-9f5a-d34e41f77e4c
Non-techy restless activist do-gooder Jeremy Flatt has found himself having to administer a mastodon instance at nwt.social and has some questions to ask of slightly more techy Paige Saunders. @jeremy@nwt.social @paige@canadiancivil.com
Jeremy returns with the next step in getting the small town of Yellowknife to use the Fediverse. Previous episode: https://video.fedihost.co/w/pHBQ5ocoXTLG5rHNxqDRQb @jeremy@nwt.social @paige@canadiancivil.com
When FediHost launched with two services #PeerTube and #Mastodon we thought we would have dozens of services but a year later we still have only four services in beta. What gives? Paige and Victor discuss the issue with providing managed hosting f...
Paige and Victor discuss the big migration to our new datacenter in Montreal happening on the day that this episode drops.
While Victor holds the camera, Paige catches up with Evan Prodromou one of the architects of Activity Pub in a busy Montreal Cafe. We ask about the future of the protocol, encrypted direct messaging, account transfer, the co-social co-op and hopes...
The first server cluster FediHost setup was in New York but with the trade war ramping up in recent months @paige@canadiancivil.com has been wondering: How easy is it to create additional clusters? What about moving our servers to Canada? Watch ...
How will talented multi-instrumentalist Victor Dyotte get paid if he becomes a fedi-first artist? Paige and Victor discuss the challenge of the fediverse, which seems less about getting donations, and more about figuring out a better model than ad...
A show where a regular person asks questions about the Fediverse and your FediHost hosts Paige and Victor do their best to answer. Find Jeremy: @prosebeforehoes@mastodon.social Find Victor: @kini@maro.xyz Find Paige: @paige@canadiancivil.com