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.

  • ExtremeDullard@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Some downtime recently

    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:

    • They virtually don’t defederate with any other instance unless they absolutely have to, so YOU get to choose which YOU want to block.
    • I kind of like the SDF philosophy of an old-style Unix ecosystem that you pay for because you use it. The problem is, you pay for it and they don’t deliver. So, kind of a letdown.

    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…

    • ThorrJo@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
      1·
      2 days ago

      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.