@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...

@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:

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

@msdropbear42 @raroun @MelissaBearTrix @MsDropbear42 @msdropbear42 @MsDropbear42 @wansti

well, it transpired that my erstwhile default daily #Friendica fedi, #OpensocialSpace, from which i write/send this post, remains my default daily Friendica fedi, coz:

• after a day or two, it seems to have come good again, with that latest bout of The Wobblies behind it afaict
• my oldest remaining Friendica instance, #AnonsysNet , sadly remains too frustrating to use as my daily, for reasons that originally sent me forth from it, a coupla years ago, in the endless quest for a better Friendica instance [eg, its most topical failing now, as always, is that the custom Channels i created in it (identical to those i create in all other Friendica instances i use), simply do not fetch ANY posts for the configured hashtags, & despite manual searches for those hashtags returning viable hits... grrrrrrrrrrr, tis so annoying!]. its Admin historically rarely/never replies to my posts.
• Mel's private instance #FarcebookSpace, remains great in all aspects except for the fatal flaw of just not federating well enough for most of my saved hashtag searches, either manual or Channels. every time i try to return to this instance as my possible daily, this unsolved hashtag PITA drives me away again. tis a pity!
• after much indecision, t'other day i did in fact press ahead & create a new account on the new Oz Friendica server, #FriendicaAU, full of hope & thrill. alas, subsequently disappointed, eg:
  
  • the server refuses to accept my attempts to change the initial auto-generated password it sent me at registration
  • its hashtag federation seems to be slightly better than FarcebookSpace, much better than AnonsysNet, but much worse than OpensocialSpace, ipso facto, untenable for daily use atm
  • incomprehensibly, afaict, NONE of my attempted Outbound posts from it, actually transmit! they give an appearance of having Sent, but:
    
    • two test-posts i sent to myself at some of my other instances, never arrived
    • a post i sent to one of my Mutuals, who is active & responsive daily with my other instances, remains Unreplied-to [coz i suspect they never received it]
    • a post i sent to the instance Admin, @wansti, remains Unreplied-to [coz i suspect they never received it]

    
    

  
  

oh well. 🤔🤷‍♀️

cc: @shlee