Jay Cuthrell September 30, 2025 Fediverse

My Fediverse Digest for September 2025

A monthly digest of my thoughts, links, and updates from the Fediverse for September 2025.

Sep 01

12:02 PM

When in doubt… duck it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkgV_-nJOuE

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Sep 12

04:33 PM

I did a dry run on #gotosocial last night and might be getting some RAM back from my #linode #vps by shutting down #mastodon after I flip the #nginx #proxy over. Timing will likely be a weekend or two in the making. We shall see.

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Sep 13

03:09 AM

Oh hai #gotosocial

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03:36 AM

And scene…

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03:44 AM

So, I’m running #GoToSocial 0.19.2 and all seems well but I’m sure there are dozens of things that I’m forgetting to seamlessly migrate. At the very least, I have a db dump and an archive from #mastodon but I’m looking forward to less #mastodonadmin and more #gotosocialadmin time.

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09:39 AM

👋 #fediverse #gotosocial

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05:28 PM

Work travel on weekends is a mood

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Sep 14

09:02 PM

Texas shaped waffles y’all

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Sep 16

09:39 AM

So far so good.

#gotosocialadmin #gotosocial

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Sep 17

09:29 PM

Finding that pinafore.social on Chrome app for iOS is more usable than Mastodon app for iOS with my #gotosocial needs… ymmv

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Sep 18

08:05 PM

Reminder: This is a 7 year old video montage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZggCipbiHwE

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11:55 PM

Testing

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Sep 19

10:43 PM

Friday selection

https://youtube.com/shorts/AJ7atBkisOU?feature=shared

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Sep 20

03:38 PM

A few thoughts on the chaos of H1-B visa fee hikes via EO on a Friday https://fudge.org/archive/sneak-peak-saturday-for-2025-09-20/

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Sep 23

08:46 PM

Last minute travel is last minute

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Sep 27

12:41 PM

With a 5000 character limit and Markdown support, I could technically place my daily newsletter here as well in most cases.

Post Analysis for GoToSocial

Percentage of posts under 5000 characters by day:

Sunday is excluded from the percentage calculation as it is reserved for digests.
Found 209 posts on Sundays.

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12:47 PM

but maybe not tables 🤣

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08:10 PM

One Friday news stories was worth a second look. It seems that the US Commerce Department is rumored to be considering ways to revert back to 1995 levels of US-sourced semiconductors.

https://www.techmeme.com/250926/p28#a250926p28

To put this into perspective, that’s like going from the icing on a cake to the cake itself. Tariffs drama aside, this rumor seems more like a slow news day dump that wants to drift on prior activities and see if there are clicks generated.

As for prior activities, it is worth looking at what I had noted back in 2022 around fabrication facilities. Indeed, the wake of pandemic supply chain lessons was just the early beginning of what might become a trend in vertical resilience in many nations and not just the US.

https://fudge.org/archive/when-we-was-chip-fab-focused/

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08:18 PM

Testing

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Sep 30

09:11 PM

As of this update

• moved npm run build work and nginx for fudge.org back to my Akamai Linode VPS
• decided to get off of the “free” netlify tier which kept threatening to charge me for build minutes at various percentage levels
• netlify was not that much faster than the already paid VPS running GoToSocial (previously Mastodon)
• cloudflare is still in front as the proxy but working on the migration to Fastly

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