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
@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 Wobbliesbehind 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
@msdropbear @raroun @shlee @MsDropbear42 @wansti
You're welcome to keep on Farcebook as a back up if you like
Hugz & xXx
@MelissaBearTrix ta Mel, you're so kind! really appreciate it. i do keep coming back to it frequently, just in hope that whatever the "something" is that is stopping the tags federating properly, has decided to cut me a break, ha... + ofc whenever my main [current] Friendica falls over each time, it's comfy knowing i can then take up my whining & moaning from your place, whilst i await the wobbly one to come good again. options! 😀 @raroun @shlee @wansti @MsDropbear42