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I like to read and decided this weekend that I would self host an instance of Bookwyrm. I intend to start shifting my book purchases away from the big corporate players--my challenge is that I like e-books and I like tracking my reading list.

I will confess, the Bookwyrm import feature leaves something to be desired. Ran it three times yesterday, seemed like it was locked up and restarted it...just to find out from comments on Github that this seems like a fairly common issue. Left an import running overnight; 9 hours and 5% done...wonder if it's because I just setup the instance?

#bookwyrm #selfhosted #ebooks #reading

#selfhosted #reading #ebooks #bookwyrm

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Kevin W. Herron
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Well, I may have figured out the issue. The export from Goodreads had the ISBNs surrounded by parentheses in the CSV file. I removed the "=" and the parentheses in both columns and it seems to be working. I only have about 200 items to import so I should know for sure in just a bit...
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Still working this. I've now removed my written reviews from the file and added all the ISBNs that were blank since most reads were ebooks. Import progresses further but still only to 17%. Thinking it may be quicker to just manually enter them all 🙁

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Canceled fairly.social, snaps.social, and jabber.social this weekend to complete my transition to herrons.social. Moved away from managed servers to a VPS.

Last year, I had this grand vision of hosting public instances but the US political environment made me realize I'm probably not in a good position to do so right now. I'm thinking this personal instance of Friendica will be perfect for me.

#selfhosting #friendica

#friendica #selfhosting

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Space Station Corridor in DAZ Studio
Space Station Corridor; rendered in DAZ Studio. Another older piece where I was working lighting and perspective. #dazstudio #rendered #places
#dazstudio #rendered #places

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Trees in Bryce
Another early rendering; a few trees in Bryce 7 Pro #bryce #rendered #places
#bryce #rendered #places

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Basic Shapes in Bryce
Posting some older artwork…these initial images were made with Bryce 7 Pro quite a few years ago; same objects in the second image but unintentionally sort of Christmas-y #bryce #rendered #things
#bryce #rendered #things

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Over time, I intend to migrate my Pixelfed posts and maybe some of my old blog articles over to this Friendica instance. Thanks for following me to my new home 🙂

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Think I successfully managed to get Yunohost moved over to a new VPS. Had a few hiccups but the backup / restore feature did pretty well. Had one issue with Prosody configuration file ownership and a second issue with the filename for the Friendica log file. #yunohost #selfhosting
#selfhosting #yunohost

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I've been curious about Friendica for a while and finally decided to take the plunge this weekend and give it a try. I certainly like the layout and I'm left wondering if this might be more of an inviting user interface for introducing some people I know to the Fediverse.

I'm most familiar with Mastodon and Pixelfed but I'm wondering if I also might prefer to move my primary accounts over...need more testing 🙂

#friendica

#friendica
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So far I think I’m liking this better than the Mastodon and Pixelfed combination I’ve been using. #friendica
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