Hello !Friendica Support

Does anyone know what exactly happens when changing an existing Friendica instance from "Single user instance" to "Multi user instance"?

Is this basically just enabling registration/additional local accounts, or are there any other behavioural changes or side effects I should be aware of?

The instance has been running as a single-user instance for quite some time, so I'm particularly interested in whether switching an existing installation is completely safe and reversible.

#Friendica #Fediverse #SelfHosting

hey, folks, i've been facing an issue with #FursonaDirectory that i'm not able to remedy with my current knowledge. i'm getting spammed every day with signups to the site and it's getting ridiculous. i'm going to have to manually clean up the database with some SQL queries again at this rate. how do people stop these from coming in on their own #LinkStack instances?

for reference, i have fail2ban and crowdsec setup but have no idea how to leverage them for this problem. very new to this. 😓

#LazyWeb #SysAdmin #SelfHosting

I was ill last week and discovered something uncomfortable: a huge Jellyfin library isn't entertainment, it's homework. Every time I opened it, it asked "what do you want?" and I just scrolled.

So I built a TV station instead.

ErsatzTV turns a media library into real linear channels with schedules and logos. It ships for Linux, Windows and macOS. My server runs FreeBSD.

Turns out the entire porting effort was one conditional. The code asked "is this Linux?" when it meant "is VAAPI available?" VAAPI is userspace, FreeBSD has it, and .NET has had OSPlatform.FreeBSD for years.

One || later: Intel hardware transcoding in a Bastille jail that can see exactly one GPU and one read-only dataset.

I now have a sci-fi channel. I don't know what's on tonight. That's the point.

blog.hofstede.it/building-my-o…

#FreeBSD #ErsatzTV #Jellyfin #SelfHosting #Jails #dotnet