I’m glad you asked. This has been irritating me for a long time.

Been there, done that, with my Friendica instance. 2 days of downtime while rebuilding a corrupted database, while people are tapping their feet waiting for all to return. I’m with you in spirit, my friend.

Thanks for all your hard work keeping the dream alive! And for keeping good backups

This tells me that you’d be in a lot of trouble if you lost your phone or had to wipe it because someone got into it. It’s probably good then that you’re now thinking about this so you can prepare for a time when you won’t have your phone for other reasons.

All sites supporting 2FA usually allow you to use a second method. Email is usually an alternative. Assuming that your email is your universal second OTP method, you just need to make sure you will always have access to your email account and you’ll be fine. So just solve for the OTP problem for your email account.

Pre-buy your burner phone and make it a second OTP device for your email account. For more assurance, buy a couple of physical keys (like Yubikey) that can be used with your email account. These can also be set up for some of your other accounts that support it, which may be more convenient than email when accessing them.

This better be an April Fools joke

Well said

I see no legitimate reason for not using a User Agent string, like all the other crawlers use, other than the desire to hide the crawler and make it difficult to block.

I don’t accept his explanation. I see it as gaslighting.

Yes, it’s worth it. I own mine for just the reason you give. You can take it to any other provider. And there’s no danger of the email provider deciding to close your account or cutting you off unexpectedly. Imagine losing your email access. At least with your own domain, you can switch it that same day to someone else.

Unsure about whois lookup privacy. My registrar hides my details as an option. Anyone looking up the domain just sees them as the contact for the domain.

Have you tried asking in helpers@forum.friendi.ca, the Friendica support group?

Are you using an obscure email provider? They may be rejecting the emails based on the domain name or because the IP address was used for spam ages ago.

I run a number of Fediverse servers and rarely, but occasionally, run into a situation where an obscure email provider rejects my server emails out-of-hand as spam. I think in my case it’s because the IP address of my server, maybe years ago, before I had it, was used for spamming or something.

Anyway, if you’re not using a mainstream email provider, you might try using a different email address.

I de-federated from it on 3 of my servers for all the reasons stated here.

Yep. A “private” message where the recipient is listed in the message is a DM in Mastodon. It will only be delivered to the mentioned person.

https://pythag.net/post/4341

I’m not trying to sell it. It is what it is. I’m just providing information about Friendica for those interested. I know I was always curious about it.

I’m glad this got sorted. I know Jeena. I was stunned and confused to hear he was banned for spam. That itself sounds like satire.

That’s just a technicality. I don’t know the rule numbers. Whether it’s 1 or 2, the comment deserved flushing.

I’m not a moderator of selfhosted. But, I do have access to your post.

Your post was low quality and uninformed and didn’t provide anything helpful. It was snarky and whiny. It was meant to complain, not help. It was, frankly, just noise. The moderator was just cleaning up the community for everyone’s comfort.

As a community member, I would be happy to not have to have read your comment. This is why, I believe, your comment got chucked. The moderator was doing their job.

Here’s an excerpt that shows the message’s tone and quality:

“That RFC only suggests that some people MAY implement it as such, which yeah, sucks, because the RFC if it did it’s job right should forbid it altogether and lobby the government to shoot anyone who utters anything that suggests such delirium on sight, along with the rest of avahi/bonjour and other garbage ideas like IPv6 or not being behind NAT as well.”

It’s a great question, actually. Yes, you absolutely can. In the Beeper Desktop Client: Go to the gears icon (settings) > Join Matrix Room.

I’m an Admin for 4 different public Fediverse instances, and I’ve banned fewer than 5 people for trolling in over 2 years.

I agree that you were trolling. I would have banned you, as well, for sealioning.

Oh my. I do feel your pain. My Friendica instance was down at the same time as your Lemmy instance, for 2 days as well, except my issue was a corrupted database engine and corrupted database tables. Kindred spirits.

I’m glad you got it resolved!

Not my preference, but it’s what they use.