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Tommi › FOSDEM 🤯

@tommi@pan.rent

Buongiorno

(De Andrè con PFM >>>> De Andrè)

https://listenbrainz.org/track/4ba9028a-3c70-405e-b991-e873f3f3a1f9

Tommi › FOSDEM 🤯

@tommi@pan.rent

It was so hard to get out of bed this morning

Tommi › FOSDEM 🤯

@tommi@pan.rent

It was really helpful to listen to Fog Lavender by Blooms Corda while cycling to the studio.

#ListenBrainz #music #morningSoundtrack

Tommi › FOSDEM 🤯

@tommi@pan.rent

It was so hard to get out of bed this morning

Tommi › FOSDEM 🤯

@tommi@pan.rent

It’s freezing out there

Tommi › FOSDEM 🤯

@tommi@pan.rent

It has been nagging me a lot, but I finally decided to shut down my Pixelfed server.

There are several reasons. Here are the ones off the top of my mind.
Pixelfed governance is unclear and its maintenance is spotty and obscure. The project has no clear roadmap and it all feels very off. Even though I was enthusiastic about @PixelfedGlitch@hachyderm.io, it still seems like this fork is not attracting enough interest and participation to establish a forward-looking plan.
Beyond governance, I share these concerns.
I don’t want to maintain a whole instance merely for a single profile—especially after it has been inactive for a long while. Friends and folks who are curious and interested in exploring the Fediverse are welcome to join pan.rent, that is a collective, communal, and cosy instance.
I am having trouble with the pixelfed_ynh package for YunoHost. PHP dependencies are a mess and services constantly fail. I believe it’s not the fault of YunoHost packaging, but I am no expert, just a feeling. No energy and not worth figuring it out. I tried for a while, I gave up.
I am generally against the idea of having multiple Fediverse accounts on multiple servers for different uses. Instead, I believe we should improve filtering and sorting posts depending on their type, and having one single account linked to one identity. Overall, Mastodon Glitch Edition does the job for my occasional image and video posting, even if it’s not optimal.
I want to use the domain https://tmi.pics for a different purpose, probably an Immich server.

Now, a question for all the sysads out there: what are the best practices you recommend before shutting the server down? I have a strong emotional attachment to the ~15 pictures and posts I have on my profile there.

What I am doing, so far:
saving all Web pages of profiles and posts on the Wayback Machine
performing and archiving a YunoHost backup of the application
?

#Pixelfed #YunoHost #Fediverse #PixelfedAdmin #admin #FediAdmin #sysAd #systemAdministration #sysAdmin

Tommi › FOSDEM 🤯

@tommi@pan.rent

I am curious if there is anyone who would actually like to ask me any anonymous questions 👀

(I honestly feel the same thrill that I got the few times I used Ask.fm lol)

https://na-real.bolha.dev/@tommi@pan.rent

#AMA #AskMeAnything #AskMe

Tommi › FOSDEM 🤯

@tommi@pan.rent

📢 Tomorrow tuesday 6 januari from 20:00 @ snackbar frieda 📢

Need a house? Are you also sick and tired of giving your hard-earned money to a rich landlord? Are you houseless? Stuck in a strict anti-squat contract? Or still living with your parents and can't find anything? Take matters into your own hands and come to the squatting info hour! Learn about everything when it comes to squatting: from legal help, to how you can find good buildings, to how you can get to work by yourself. Come pick up a guidebook and meet people from the squatting movement. Together, we are working on various projects in the city, such as Buurtoren, Catu, snackbar Frieda, and Petteflat. Come to the info hour, and let's take back what should have been ours in the first place!

#Rotterdam #squat #squatting

https://radar.squat.net/en/event/rotterdam/kraakspreekuur-rotterdam/2025-12-14/ksu-rotterdam

Tommi › FOSDEM 🤯

@tommi@pan.rent

Oooh it’s time to share my year in music 2025, joyfully generated with @ListenBrainz@mastodon.social!

I am not as satisfied with it as I was in previous years, but the wild range of genres and artists truly reflects the diversity of my listens. I love it.

I am most proud of C.U.R.A. by Dietro L’Angolo, a local rap collective from La Pigna, Sanremo, appearing there. They are my friends and I have been listening to them endlessly since they performed at @scambi@pan.rent in August 2025. I am also the one who added their album to @musicbrainz@mastodon.social 😉

#ListenBrainz #2025wrapped #music #YearInMusic #MusicBrainz