I’m looking for input on how well Piefed responds to occasional downtime of up to a few days, specifically regarding how federation recovers after such an event.
Basically looking to know how amenable it is to selfhosting via reverse proxy from dodgy setups which are the best some of us proles can manage. I try to run some services where I can but my situation inevitably results in an event or three per year, on average, with some days down.
Some downtime recently, and recurrent issues accepting media uploads. The Lemmy instance is a bit sickly and so far it’s been difficult for them to fix.
That’s the understatement of the year 🙂
I’ve been on SDF for two years and I can’t remember it functioning well or fast for more than a month total - when it doesn’t simply go tits up for days at a time. And I paid for it, so I’m not super-happy.
My communities are still there, but I’m still evaluating Piefed with a view to moving them away from SDF permanently.
It’s too bad because SDF has two major advantages over all the other Lemmy instances:
But in fairness, I only have a beef with the Lemmy server and whoever is asleep at the wheel administering it. I have no issues with other SDF Fediverse services, and they’ve always answered my emails - if they don’t answer their internal IRC thing, they do answer emails. If Lemmy wasn’t the main thing I’m interested in in the Fediverse, I’d be pretty happy with SDF I guess…
FWIW I’ve only noticed one or two instances where it was down for what seemed like a day or so, but I only ramped up my threadiverse use in maybe the past 6 weeks.
My guess is that whoever runs the instance doesn’t actually use it personally, so they don’t really notice when stuff breaks.
And yeah, the minimal defederation policy was a big selling point.
Oh wow, is it true that you only have a single admin (the sidebar area of your instance says that at least), and that the last post or comment from them was TWO YEARS AGO? (https://lemmy.sdf.org/u/SDF) And at the time they were welcoming people to Lemmy 0.18 https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/347031/1001724? If so you may have another Kbin+Ernst situation going on with an abandoned Lemmy instance, and in that case if you can’t raise them on Matrix or Discord or wherever else you know you can reach them (I did not see any such link in the sidebar though), I would absolutely jump ship ASAP before it goes down.
However, that simply can’t be true since your instance says it is running 0.19.11 now so it must have been upgraded sometime since then, albeit unannounced afaict. Maybe the database is corrupted and the timing of posts are off, maybe this is expected behavior for Lemmy when the last post is two years ago and the admin has not communicated since (at least from that account, but then why go ninja to hide their identity?), or some other funky thing going on.
Regardless it does not sound great. PieFed is great though, so if you go that route then welcome:-).
Yeah, somebody eventually fixes stuff if people complain in [email protected] but never responds to any of the threads in there … weird.
I did just create a new community there today to scratch a personal itch, and there are a couple fairly active communities hosted there, so … guess we’ll see. SDF.org has been around since before HTTP was invented, so the organization isn’t going anywhere. I’m a little less sure about the Lemmy instance.