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@VoiceofDuum sadly I get seasick easily so I'd make an awful captain. 🤣

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Hachyderm is the El Paso of the Fediverse

It can be kind of hard to understand how big a server (instance) on the Fediverse really is. I know mastodon.social is much bigger than the server I'm on, but how much bigger, really?

So what if we compare the populations of servers to cities?

I built a tool for that! https://arewedecentralizedyet.online/fedicities/

Let's compare mastodon.social, the biggest server on the Fediverse, to the biggest city in the world, Shanghai (pop 24.9M). In comparison, pixelfed.social is like Ahmedabad, India (pop 6.4M). hachyderm.io is like El Paso, Texas (pop 679K). The server I'm on, discuss.systems, is like Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany (pop 32.1K).

Cool but maybe I'm not so familiar with some of those cities. What if we compare to cities in Mexico? (mastodon.social is Mexico City, Hachyderm is Tepic) Or Ontario? (mastodon.social is Toronto, Hachyderm is Caledon).

Play around with this tool, select an area of the world you're familiar with, and get a better sense for how big all these servers really are! Check out what your own server is comparable to!

A screenshot comparing the size of Fediverse servers to world cities

Screenshot comparing Fediverse servers with Mexican cities

Screenshot comparing the size of Fediverse servers with cities in Ontario, Canada

@jonah I didn’t realize that, I guess that makes sense why my changes to the web service don’t impact it. I don’t have Prometheus metrics enabled because I found it extremely confusing. I guess I should look into enabling that to help track down the bottleneck?

@jonah I enabled stats on the puma service and monitor it with a PHP script that generates alerts when the backlog number gets higher than 1000.

@jonah I’ve been using pgbouncer and it’s been basically magic since running it, I didn’t think it was a database issue because PgHero rarely shows over 50 connections but my web connections (puma) will hit over 1000 active a few times an hour now, sometimes queuing up 10-40k backlogs.

I never had this issue with >30k active users so something must have changed recently with my user activity.

Looking for some advice from #MastodonAdmins

What setting do you have WEB_CONCURRENCY and MAX_THREADS for your puma (mastodon-web) service?

I’ve set it 50 and 20 respectively for a pool of 1000 web processes, but I’ve been getting constant overloading with tens of thousands of backlogged connections.

Do I need to adjust the mastodon-streaming service settings also? I increased my database connection limit to 1500 to handle the connections plus extras.

Any ideas?

#mastodonadmin #sysadmin #mastoadmin

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KuJoe 💞 boosted:

not beating the socialist teeth allegations today

#art #MastoArt #FediArt #CreativeToots

a drawing of a snarling wolf's head, looking at the viewer straight on. in it's jaws are shattering ice cubes. the background is a glaring chartreuse green. the text reads "I'd rather be a bitch than a collaborator"

@sand it’s like getting the item plus a bonus for the same price. Win-win!

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I picked up the paintbrush today for the first time in a few years

A painting of the elmo on fire meme - Elmo with an anxious expression, standing in red and orange flames against a dark background, indicating distress or being overwhelmed.

<alt text generated by AI: https://alttexter.lovable.app/>

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New short video for main channel about a critical piece of gear I've acquired that isn't flashy or sexy: https://youtu.be/W6fADr9YHmM

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I have a love/hate relationship with CSS

On the one hand, I hate CSS

On the other hand, I love to hate CSS

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My storage upgrade shenanigans with @level1techs.bsky.social is finally live on their side! Little more technical dive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7ufma8o7nU

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Not me seeing "I sold my Tesla" and "I quit Twitter" posts in January 2026.

Sorry, but no. You had at least a year, generously. We know where you stand.

RE: https://mindly.social/@KuJoe/115887329285663535

So my plan ended spectacularly because I didn't spend enough money to test the TB4/USB4 eGPU. I'm going to RMA what I can and consider this a learning experience. 🤣

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I'm not a car person per se but there's something about the design of this car that I will always appreciate. You know?

Prints: https://pixels.markonart.com/featured/classic-datsun-240z-orange-mark-tisdale.html

#Datsun #ClassicCars #Nissan #240z #DigitalArt #Art #Car #BuyArt #ShopSmall #CarArt #Datsun240z #MastoArt #FediArt #CreativeToots #FediGiftShop #MarkOnArt

Digital art - side view of a classic orange 240Z Datsun with a backdrop of black below the tires and mostly blue above. There are orange streaks behind the car.

Decided to go all in on eGPUs this year and finally getting some real data out of them.

I built 2 different test benches (AMD and Intel) with 3 different GPUs (AMD 6600 XT, NVIDIA RTX 5060, and Intel Arc B580) and 2 different eGPUs (Oculink and TB4/USB4).

I've barely even started recording data, but once I'm done I'll probably turn it into a video + blog post for anybody who cares.