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Thinking of joining an instance but want to know as much as you can about it before doing so?
Character-count, number of users, how many poll options allowed etc?
Store this handy url away somewhere and modify as needed for your instance.
https://<instance>/api/v1/instance
This tip courtesy of @12 who I thank kindly.
I've used it so many times to delve deep into a server I'm curious about.
@12 Freya it/its๐’€ญ๐’ˆน๐’ ๐’Šฉ

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in reply to Andre Louis

Erion
Erion
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I really think all servers should expose this info without having to use the API endpoint. #GoToSocial does for example.

Handy tip nonetheless, thank you.

#GoToSocial
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Andre Louis
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@erion I 100% bloody agree with you. You should not have to jump through fekkin hoops to get this information, it's actually pointless. Why isn't it just there on the about page?
@Erion
in reply to Andre Louis

12 Freya it/its๐’€ญ๐’ˆน๐’ ๐’Šฉ
12 Freya it/its๐’€ญ๐’ˆน๐’ ๐’Šฉ
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@erion because Mastodon was designed by a dick? As an admin of a fuckin thing, let us tell you right now that source code was designed by.... we were gonna say a dumbass, but we're a dumbass and we're not quite that brainbroken, it's a horror. It's, like, ..... no. bad.
@Erion
in reply to 12 Freya it/its๐’€ญ๐’ˆน๐’ ๐’Šฉ

Erion
Erion
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Fortunately I never hosted a Mastodon instance, but from what I am seeing it's a typical example of why we need good UI designers. What's obvious to a programmer is 99.99% confusing to the end user. Even more so when handling thousands of users.

My personal opinion is that Mastodon was doomed already at the software stack level: Ruby is extremely developer-centric.

in reply to Erion

12 Freya it/its๐’€ญ๐’ˆน๐’ ๐’Šฉ
12 Freya it/its๐’€ญ๐’ˆน๐’ ๐’Šฉ
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@erion Ruby is a trash language. As a unix girl, we're seriously tempted to write our own fucking fedi software
@Erion
in reply to 12 Freya it/its๐’€ญ๐’ˆน๐’ ๐’Šฉ

Erion
Erion
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All the power to you!

Luckily we have some alternatives, but it's very sad to see that a lot of people are struggling with maintenance, high server costs, etc. Anyways, I'm going quite off-topic here.

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