Did we just discover a way to grow the Yarn.social network? 🤣

All our servers come with an initial 2tb for free.

Their response:

The bandwidth for our free instances is 2 TB of free bandwidth.

Mike Wolfman
ww.vultr.com
enior Linux Systems Administrator

😱

@bender@twtxt.net Is right. Apparently it’s 0 bandwidth. I’m asking them some clarifying questions:

Hi Team,

Just noticed that you offer FREE (as in $0) VM(s) on the vc2-1c-0.5gb-free
plan. however I also note that this has 0 Bandwidth.

I’m a bit confused by this. What would be the point of having a free VM if it has no Bandwidth? How is network bandwidth charged in this case?

cheers
james

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Yes it would be honestly, for low traffic volumes for sure!

Thank you for your kind words @prologic@twtxt.net 🙏 things will indeed.

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com it depends on the transfer they offer. Oracle also offer free VMs.

@prologic@twtxt.net would it be enough to spin up a reverse proxy/Tunnel like the one you did? 😏

@terron@duque-terron.cat Oh! For a minute there I thought this was our cat 🐱 Haha 😆

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Or… You got interrupted and forgot about the shape of the codebase you were going for 🤣

@kat Morning! 👋 I’m quite ill today, taking today/tomorrow off work. Not sure what I’ve come down with 😢 😷

@kat HTMX is very nice to use 🤣

Look forward to it 😅

@bender@twtxt.net It’s true! This is only a good thing @kat 🤣 You keep going like this with your own little community of friends, and my twtxt.net (flagship pod) will no longer be 🤣 I’ve always want to see Yarn.social grow, but grow in ways that keep to its truest sense of “decentralised”. That’s one of the reasons I built yarnd not to scale too much 🤣 My own pod has around ~18-20 active users per month (give or take) and that’s honestly enough 😅

@kat Oh you self-host Plex too! 🤔 Nice! 👍

I don’t want it to be 2026 🤣

@bmallred@staystrong.run You can probably recover missing twts from our caches if you need to…

Hey this could be good news for self-hosters and folks that want to run their own yarnd? 🤔 Vultr is offering 1 vCPU, 500MB Memory and 10GB Storage for FREE! That’s right $0.00 🤣

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@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Man I’m sorry to hear this. 😢 Whatever it is you’re going through, things will get better I promise you 🤗

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Same, I hope things get much better for you bud 🤗

Thank you @bender@twtxt.net Much appreciated 🙏 and Sorry you/anyone had to read that…

I’m usually comfortable keeping my hardship to myself, most especially AWAY from the internet; an act of kindness of sorts towards others, “Everyone’s got their own problems to worry about” kind of thing.. But maaan am I starting to believe creating a twitter account would be a healthy decision 🤣🤦 Read nothin’ out there, just a one way echo chamber of sorts to let that shi_ out of my chest. It seem that’s what everyone else’s been using it for all this time.

A Bsky would be even better! 😂 I’d get to shi_ post and yap all I want, allll the way from terminal and never ever have to look back at it or whatever comes out of it. But I digress…

I FU_ing despise this … whatever this is. I wish I could just wake up in some sort of parallel universe where everything is just sunshine and rainbows, alas, life would be just as meaningless.

and sorry you had to read this if you did.

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com sorry to hear, mate. Hoping and wishing everything gets, and stays, better.

Shit in my life has been spiraling out of control at an unbelievable rate. And just when you think life can’t get shittier it dumps an even bigger N° 2 on yO face.

@bender@twtxt.net oh yeah i remember that part of the docs lol! honestly yeah i think sqlite is fine for the number of users i have which is like, 5 including me, and active users is just… me, but if i were to have more active users i could always spin up a separate instance as jank as that is

Though my use of words wasn’t the best, I would agree. It certainly is possible. 😅

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I was referring to their documentation advice, mostly:

“GoToSocial supports both SQLite and Postgres as database drivers. Though it is possible in theory to swap your database from SQLite to Postgres or vice versa, we do not currently have tooling to support this, so you should consider your choice of database carefully when starting out.

SQLite is the default driver and it’s been shown to work brilliantly for instances in the range of 1-30 users (or maybe more).”

@movq@www.uninformativ.de wait until you hear of 2026. 😂

@prologic@twtxt.net @eapl.me@eapl.me @bender@twtxt.net I just found:

Equilibrium problems are solved by method of relaxation numerically.

– Manoj Kumar and Garima Mishra, https://www.scirp.org/html/8798.html

Reminds me of deliberately misattributed quotes from a funny German book series “Die Känguru-Chroniken”, like:

How much is the fish?

– Karl Marx

I’m positively surprised there is even an English wikipedia page about The Kangaroo Chronicles. Somebody gathered a list with all of them.

@bmallred@staystrong.run Oh no! Best of luck to restore everything. Unfortunately, I cannot provide you a copy of your twtxt feed. It turns out when the messages were gone from your feed and I refetched the now empty feed, all messages were also dropped from my local cache. :-/ But it looks like you’re on something already. The message timestamps are all way off, though.

check out this awesome internet radio it looks cool and they play bangers https://radio.cock.institute/shows

@kingdomcome https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49RHJRUHfHw

@@www.uninformativ.de Are we sure it’s not still 2005? That’s more realistic imo

I have “gay for a girl” disease & it’s fatal

@movq@www.uninformativ.de @kat Agreed!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de ooooh interesting!!! i am a mysql liker because postgres syntax confuses me (i know its faster but whatever) but i will look into this…

@movq@www.uninformativ.de fake ass scifi year

@kat Pics or it didn’t happen! We were already back at 14°C today. But there might be chance of snow towards the end of the week. Let’s see.

“2025” doesn’t look right. That looks like a date which is absurdly far into the future. Like 2199 or something.

@kat @bender@twtxt.net We’ve used pgloader at work to migrate an old legacy application from MySQL to PostgreSQL. Their website says it also works with SQLite. 🤔

… and then there’s SVED from SvarDOS at 6035 bytes. Oh, dear!

Good thing is, SVED is free software:

https://github.com/SvarDOS/core/tree/master/sved/trunk

@kat I think it is kind of impossible to switch from sqlite to Postgres. I have run GtS on sqlite from get go, no issues. Granted, single user instance, but still…

my fucking second drive for plex isn’t auto mounting with fstab on reboot for some reason and i keep accidentally discovering this it’s super annoying

@kat i’m an LXQt girlie for life and i like the convenience of apt despite that they never update their god damn packages so i guess i’m stuck on lubuntu for everything

been thinking about trying arch linux but no i will not become the type of person that uses arch

@kat fun* lol

i wanna make more videos…….. editing in shotcut is kinda fnu

@bender@twtxt.net epic!!!

@kay “when it rains, it pours!” :-D

@kat wow, thanks for sharing that guide! I have now used it on my better tuned instance. Woot!