Melissa BearTrix
Droppie [opensoc]@MelissaBearTrix @msdropbear42 @MsDropbear42 @msdropbear42 oooh.... oooooooooohhhhh! ta bigly!
but, wot to do? if i were to try yet another one, i fear my fedi-peeps might lynch me!
i shall think about it some more... muhahahahaha...
Droppie [farcebk] 🐨♀🌈🐧🦘@msdropbear @MelissaBearTrix @MsDropbear42
well ... sigh!!!
maybe my hand is now being forced on this to go ahead & create an account on this new local server/instance friendica.au, coz... this morning, once again, out of the blue my #opensocialspace instance is running like its electrons are swimming thru cold treacle. every interaction is s l o w, topped off just minutes ago by this outright service failure:
Gateway Timeout
The gateway did not receive a timely response from the upstream server or application.
Apache/2.4.58 (Ubuntu) Server at friendica.opensocial.space Port 443initially this
opensocial.space server was wonderfully responsive & reliable, but more lately, over the past several months, randomly several of these faults have beset it, which is sad.given i ofc already have this mostly*-lovely farcebook.space friendica account on the kind & generous Mel's private instance, logic would suggest i simply once more make it my daily fedi. that seems tempting especially since the relatively recent software upgrade solved almost all the initial problems. it's just that...
* the one remaining problem i've been unable to solve, is this tiny instance simply does not federate well with the large amount of #hashtags i follow, so heapsa posts i get in my Masto, Sharkey, & FriendicaOpensocialSpace accounts, just do not appear in my #farcebookspace timelines; rats.
my concern with trying the new strayan friendica instance is that if it's also only a small instance, maybe it also will federate poorly re tags, in which case... fryingpan/fire. alas, to state the obvious, if i don't try it, i'll never know. sigh [to nick the old NT tourism ad; if i never never go, i'll never never know].
cc: @raroun @MsDropbear42
Frank@msdropbear42 I just bought my own in the end, pretty simple to do and set up. And not expensive to run each month.
@VWDasher do you follow a large number of hashtags, & if so, does your private instance [= tiny, by definition] federate well with all said tags?
i believe that unlike me, many fediversers follow accounts, rather than tags, & so might never notice this problem even if on small servers. i follow both, with the tags aspect being really important for me.
@msdropbear42 I can't say I've tried it! @mastohost is my hosting co, they would know all about it and what's required yadda yadda. I follow a fair amount of tags on my weird.autos account but not many here at present.