that's a good idea (re: blog post). it would help to have a little history/context to the topic.

Indeed we did. With that setup I had jumped up to a 1200 baud modem from the 300 baud I was using on the C64.
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I always had the turbo button pressed. It seemed stupid not to back in the day. I also had my 40MB hard drive compressed with Stacker to eek out that extra capacity.
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from what I understand it's wicked fast on a 286

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O_o That's a lot of s###

GNU social is basically PHP + MariaDB and Mastodon I think is Ruby + PostgreSQL so whichever of those might fit your setup better… ?
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disregard that last link. it's actually https://gs.monkeystew.net/main/public

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oh wow, just when I thought they couldn't get any worse they prove me wrong. :o

@skematica ouch

Not as such no, it's stored on your instance but as posts from [email protected] so they are in your database and visible but not as a user local to your instance.
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