I have indeed seen that option, and I think I will eventually, I just have some things I want to sort out first. Like making sure I have Rules and Policies setup, that Topics are set up, and I have migrated to more proper hosting (at least to the point where I can scale out from a single server with little to no downtime).

Alright, lets do this.

I have been playing around with setting up my own little PieFed instance: https://nord.red/, the one I’m posting from now. Set it up in the weekend and I’m kind of surprised how smooth the process was.

Why? Mostly for fun, but also because I feel like I would like to contribute what I can to there being non-American alternatives to Social media available, especially with the current climate and the appearance of increased censorship on Reddit. With about a decade of experience in systems administration and DevOps, and with a decent amount of free cash flow I thought perhaps this is something to try out and see where it leads.

I don’t have any specific goal other than it being a “Nordic Reddit” and a gateway to the fediverse… but I know there are already at least feddit.nu and feddit.dk (and probably for Norway and Finland as well) and I don’t want to fracture a already small communities.

For now the setup is a bit experimental, as in its completely dependent on a single computer in perhaps non-ideal conditions… but I do have a pretty solid plan for scaling it up (i. e. getting hosts from Hetzner in Finland)

Should I commit to this? I dunno, probably not as I have like 2 weeks of experience of the Fediverse 😆

I’m not sure what you mean, are you trying to imply that the EU at the current state is not dependent on US technology? Because I think that is simply not true at all. In general the US is massively ahead on tech (and not just AI) and a lot of EU companies has made themselves dependent on especially US cloud providers. I have worked on finding EU alternatives and while there are products that can work it’s usually clear that it’s somewhat behind and you’re playing catch up.

It’s interesting to hear that there are at least some cases of the US also being dependent on EU technologies.

Edit: Im not saying that it’s impossible or that we shouldn’t reduce our reliance on US techs and cloud products. Just that it’s delusional to pretend we aren’t behind.

AWS ska ha credit för att de verkligen verkar ha ansträngt sig med den här lösningen. Rent tekniskt så låter det ju solitt med att de har sett till att enbart personer som fysiskt befinner sig i EU kommer att ges åtkomst, och saker som att de ska ha tillgång till källkod så att det kommer att gå att fortsätta drifta även om det skulle sättas in sanktioner. Frågan är väl ifall de fortfarande skulle välja att följa order ifrån det amerikanska moderbolaget, och ifall EU-lagstiftning skulle tillåta det.

Men i slutändan så spelar det nog inte så stor roll, de kommer aldrig att komma ifrån associationen med USA. Om man seriöst överväger att lämna AWS så går man nog hela vägen till en annan leverantör.

Vet inte riktigt vad jag ska känna om det här, men det är åtminstone lite komiskt att de seriöst planerar att skaffa ett eget litet kärnkraftverk för att driva sina grafikkort 😁

Last time I (was forced to) use SUSE it was unfortunately vastly inferior to RedHat. Mainly in terms of reliable stability like how they claim to have the longest supported major versions but change so much in their “Service Packs” that you’ll have to be on your toes every 18 months anyway (and release notes for the SP wasn’t really created, only for major versions). and Arch doesn’t even try to deliver that kind of stability…

Ubuntu is probably a better bet since at least Canonical is based in the UK. Or simply Debian

This may just be a shot in the dark but what is the MAIL_USE_TLS setting in your configuration? I also had issues with mail delivery to start with and it turned out that the problem was that I thought that setting was for SMTPS, but it’s actually whether to use STARTTLS. Granted since you’re using port 587 either value should work, but Mailgun might block unencrypted submissions.

Also, I think almost all email delivery happens from the celery instance. This was also a mistake I made to start with because I didn’t prioritize getting async up and working (turns out that’s very important).

Related question: How much bandwidth does piefed.social end up using?

Aking because I’m experimenting with my own Piefed instance and are interested to know the worst-case CDN costs if people would actually start to use it (as if I have any compelling reason to choose my instance, lol).