Somnius @somnius@merveilles.town

#introductions

Hey there! I'm Somnius, a white tiger living in SF. I code websites, play indie & rhythm games, love all kinds of music, and turned vegan in the middle of this year.

Things I advocate for: furries, non-monogamy, sex positivity, gender identity, LGBT+ rights, democratic socialism.

All of you here inspire me so much with the amazing things you create. I have so much to learn!

Remember to vote! Only a couple days left :3

Forgot how great this set was! https://soundcloud.com/sintecta/fc19-witchset #theStudio

This poll will run for a week to get responses, and I'll boost partway as a reminder. Cheers y'all!

So, that's what I have discovered thus far. However, that reflects my perspective only. Since you lovely people are paying me to maintain this place, it's much more responsible to ask all of you how you feel before making a decision!

Knowing the positives and negatives, do you still want local-only posting? If so, how do you want that implemented? Please only vote if you are on Merveilles. I'll make a similar poll for Patreon patrons!

One last negative:

- If something happens and I have to roll back to the upstream branch, that would be amazingly messy. Old posts would be broken, and posts meant to only be shared with certain groups of people would be shared with the fediverse again.

Detriments:

- None of the native mobile apps seem to support those features, so you'd have to use the web client to locally post

- Both those forks, currently, have one primary maintainer each. I'm worried about what that implies if something happens to either of them

- Since these are forked from the main Mastodon repo, we would typically have to wait for upstream updates a bit longer (currently, we'd have to roll back a version which could be really messy)

Benefits:

- By using glitch-soc or hometown, we not only get local-only posting, but a bunch of new features as well!

- Easy to migrate to a those forks, just need to do a few git commands and rebuild assets

- Maintainers are actively working on and accept questions on those forks

- Makes our instance feel much more customized to ourselves

I've gotten several questions about if we could have local posting here, which led me to do a little bit of research to see what it would be like to add that here.

So far, from what I've seen, it might be more trouble than it's worth, from an instance management perspective. However, I'd love to get a wider amount of input on this! Let me explain a bit more of what I found out in depth:

Hey all! I updated our trending hashtags to only show the hashtags relevant to our instance. For example, you'll only see theStudio or theCinema show up in the "trending now" in the bottom-right.

I was trying out having more than just that, but having all that unfiltered stuff from the fediverse was a bit much!

Hey there all! In honor of coming-out day, and after lots of thought over about a year, I have an announcement: I'm non-binary!

Like my bio says, he/she/they (or any pronouns) are totally fine. I'm still exploring what exactly this means for me and that may change over time, but thank you to everyone who's helped me along this journey.

Have a great rest of the day, y'all, and stay your lovely selves!

Life as an instance admin sure is wild (this is not going to be added to the trending section but lmao)

Things are really picking up since we started the Patreon, and we're definitely in the clear. Looks like the S3 costs are leveling off a bit, so that's great!

Thanks again, and keep on being your amazing selves :D

Donations
$74.38 via Patreon

Total: $74.38

Infrastructure Costs
Amazon S3: $18.20
DigitalOcean: $24.68

Total: $42.88

Donations to Date
$723.77

Infrastructure Costs to Date
$532.11

Money left over
$191.66

Success!! We are now on Mastodon 3.0.0. Hope y'all enjoy :D

Hey y'all! I'm about to update to 3.0.0, we may experience some errors, but this should be pretty seamless! I'll let you know when things are done :3

I also got all the new portable Apple devices, being the walking "orchard" that I am. They've been interesting to play around with.

The new iPhone reminds me of Tachikomas from Ghost in the Shell—the camera stuff and battery life increase is nice. The red ring of the new watch bothered me though, so I painted over it with black nail polish, heh.