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.

  • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
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    3 days ago

    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:-).

    • ThorrJo@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
      2·
      3 days ago

      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.