Jon HenshawOct 31, 2022
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⚠️ 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

Oct 31, 2022 at 6:59amWeb
Show threadpixelfedOct 31, 2022

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.

Show threadGustav Lindqvist 🇸🇪Oct 31, 2022
@pixelfed What is the best way to support?
Show threadj.r / JulianOct 31, 2022
@gustav @pixelfed I think the best way would be to use another smaller instance instead of the flagship one
Show threadFrameOct 31, 2022
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Show thread(((Jann Gobble)))🏳️‍🌈Oct 31, 2022
@pixelfed Why aren’t instances like this limiting the number of users instead of overextending themselves like this?
Show threadspaceotter  🏳️‍🌈Oct 31, 2022

@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.

Show threadDarnell Clayton Oct 31, 2022
@pixelfed That explains it! Thanks for all that you do!
Show threadGreg Walsh 🦏Oct 31, 2022
@pixelfed Thanks for doing it!
Show threadwakest likes your bugs ⁂Nov 6, 2022
@pixelfed have the main federation issues cleared?
Show threadRonnie SoakOct 31, 2022
@pixelfed
Many thanks for the continued effort!
Show threadFloreOct 31, 2022
@pixelfed great news!
Show threadMartin G.Oct 31, 2022

@pixelfed Speaks for #Pixelfed, I dare say.

Now to get the people to understand #federation and spread them across instances...

Show threadBruno MASSAOct 31, 2022
@pixelfed I did not find the registration button/link.
Show threadDerek BruffOct 31, 2022
@pixelfed Is this why I'm not able to attach an image to my post right now? #newbie
Show threadwakest likes your bugs ⁂Oct 31, 2022
@derekbruff @pixelfed its an unrelated issue. well related in the sense that both servers are overwhelmed by the same influx but pixelfed.social having issues will only affect users of that server
Show threadDerek BruffNov 1, 2022
@liaizon @pixelfed Ah, that makes sense. Still getting us to the server names here. I was thinking that might have been an image handling server, but it's a "regular" server.
Show threadwakest likes your bugs ⁂Nov 1, 2022
@derekbruff pixelfed.social is an instance of Pixelfed which is a different type of software then Mastodon that you are using.
Show threadDerek BruffNov 1, 2022

@liaizon Which is why I thought it might be related to my image posting problems... if Mastodon was using some federated image sharing tool like Pixelfed.

It doesn't matter. It's pretty clear at this point that none of these tools are going to make enough sense to me to use them.

Show threadJeOct 31, 2022
@pixelfed HaHa!
Show threadTristan HarwardNov 1, 2022
@pixelfed thank you for the hard work!
Show threadl’idiota Nov 20, 2022
@pixelfed
One could use smaller istances, like https://vizibol.social
It’s exactly like the federation concept works.
Vizibol

Federated Image Sharing

Vizibol