Social Media
- Friendica.Eskimo.Com
- Friendica is a full length social media site that allows topics to be explored in depth. It is part of the Fediverse network of federated servers. What this means is something posted here is shared amongst millions of people across tens of thousands of other federated sites.
- Hubzilla.Eskimo.Com
- Hubzilla is similar to ActivityPub in that it is a server whose primary responsibility is networking with the various Fediverse protocols so that servers of different types can communicate with each other. But it also has a user interface that permits reading and posting in full length format similar to Friendica.
- Mastodon.Eskimo.Com
- Mastodon is a micro-blogging application that allows short “toots”, analogous to Twitter’s Tweets. Like Twitter, it does not allow long posts in and of itself, but it does permit linking to longer posts.
- Nextcloud.Eskimo.Com
- Nextcloud is how we provide our cloud services. Just about anything you could want to do in the cloud is doable. Like the other services, it is connected to and part of the Fediverse, but the functionality of that connection is limited.
- Yacy.eskimo.com
- Yacy is a federated search engine. Unlike Bing, and Google, this search engine is distributed. There thousands of nodes, each of them crawl various parts of the Internet, and when you request a search, all of those which are networked, respond so that the search results you get is the sum total from the community. Although each site can limit the content it crawls and displays, no one site has control over the entire network, thus the responses you get tend to be uncensored and politically across the entire spectrum.
How long will your Friendica instance be down? It’s been long enough for your friends on diaspora* to wonder if you’re still among the living!
I am in the process of installing a 5th motherboard in this machine, the 4th one ran for about ten hours then had a meltdown near the CPU. I do not know if it ruined the CPU or not and will not know until I get this motherboard installed. I hope to get it installed today. If it works I will let it burn in for a couple of days to make sure it is stable. If not, I will need to order a new CPU and that will probably put it out another week. There are unfortunately no good computer stores that carry high end components near me so pretty much everything has to come from mail order.
I apologize that it has taken so long. The hardware is being very difficult, it is a rather exotic machine which presses power limits to the max and the last motherboard gave up, the solder for the power feed to the CPU literally melted. So going at it with yet another motherboard, but when you overclock an 18Core CPU by 50% the power demand peaks at around 500 watts, and while I have adequate cooling for that, many motherboards just aren’t able to deliver the current. And nobody is paying for these services, and paying customers get priority. That’s just a necessary aspect of business. If you want to see it happen sooner, consider contributing by subscribing to some of our services.