⚠️ We are working to restore pixelfed.social, the influx of new users across the fediverse overloaded the server.
We apologize for the inconvenience!
This latest growth spurt has highlighted some opportunities for performance improvements that will be rolling out later this week. #pixelfed
We have to temporarily disable federation so our job queue can catch up, again we're sorry about this!
This is a last resort solution aside from a total outage.
@pixelfed thank you for putting out the fire. intrigued to hear about the post mortem and clever solutions in due time.
PS i have no clue as to the internals whatsoever, and its probably and all or nothing, but suppose if federation ceased on the local & federated TL but continued elsewhere, would that help at all, or not really, because it couldnt work that way, or if it did it wouldnt make a diff.
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