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My relay instance for the #Fediverse evolved in a great way - more than 120 instances are already connected to boost your posts across the Fediverse.

If you're running #snac / #snac2, #Mastodon, #Pleroma or any other software on the #ActivityPub protocol that supports relay instances - feel free to join the relay! Hopefully #GoToSocial also supports relay services soon! Of course #IPv6 is supported (for IPV6 only instances).

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So, I think this furnace is meant to be controlled only via an insulated relay or switch. Not the #Sonoff smart switch I was trying to use.

I could make up something with an #esp8266, #tasmota firmware and a #relay module, the ones used with the #arduino. I've everything on hand, but then I should find a box, a power supply, wire all separating the high voltage side from the rest... it's a lot of effort for a speedy project as this...
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@torproject same with #obfs4 bridges: there is no option to say like ports=80,443 or similar, which makes it cumbersome to get said bridges.

And trying to get places to #DontBlockTor that criminalize the use of #Tor is foolish at best.

I've just been notified that one of our production servers is going to be relocated to a different data hall by our infrastructure provider with about 2 weeks notice. Annoyingly it's the server that runs 3 of our web nodes for MastodonAppUK, Universeodon and the Universeodon relay.

I'm not expecting this to cause any public disruption, but will be spending this weekend getting things ready so I can migrate the traffic over prior to the server move happening. There may be some short notice maintenance over the coming weeks to ensure I can accommodate this and it doesn't cause an outage on move day.

A topical or community Fediverse Relays could be very useful (in addition to generic ones).

Ex: a Paleogenetics relay server, or an animal photography relay server, or a company focused relay server, etc

Especially for single-user, community, team, organization, themed, etc server instances

It would also help save storage space on server instances, by the relay being selective in what it shares.

Just added #tor #relay to my @yunohost instance. Consider running one yourself.
"The Tor network relies on volunteers to donate bandwidth. The more people who run relays, the better the Tor network will be. The current Tor network is quite small compared to the number of people who need to use Tor, which means we need more dedicated volunteers like you to run relays."
#privacy
community.torproject.org/relay

community.torproject.orgTor Project | Relay OperationsDefend yourself against tracking and surveillance. Circumvent censorship. | Relay Operations

The #Fediverse is free, free of censorship, federated and full of great content!

Also the Fediverse - instance admins randomly blocking whole instances just because a single user feels offended of a post by a single instance user. Blocking whole instances is just a finger snip away, censoring unwanted content and parenting users of instances. Defederating just because of… ok no clue :) Using content warner for any possible content just to annoy or aeemmm make it more interesting to other users. Thanks, I’m old enough :) Seeing all the spam because it’s just a thing of 5 minutes automation to create randomly new instances on different domains (or subdomains from dynamic-ip hosters) and to fill the network with automated content.

Sometimes, pros can easily switch into cons… luckily more and more single user instances are raising up for exactly this reasons and can still easily federate by using relays…