Jason Parker (he/they)

For all the #Mastodon #selfhosting folks out there, any idea what I should be looking at as far as backoff timers or whatever from other instances coming back down, after something like a week of downtime? Several instances, most notably infosec.exchange, still haven't been sending me new messages, some 18 hours later.

I didn't even get one when I tagged myself in a new post - https://infosec.exchange/@north/116199899292856762 - until I searched for it¹. Any insight maybe, @jerry ?

Curiously, Threads and brid.gy started sending me messages within about 15 minutes of coming back online. That seems bad.

¹ at that point, it became a pull, not a push

Edit: A boost from the other side does not appear to have been correctly pushed.

ꩰ.com recovered! Jason Parker (he/they) (@[email protected])

@[email protected] ey bb u up?

Infosec Exchange
Mar 9 at 3:34pmWeb
Show threadJason Parker (he/they)Mar 10

It turns out that my attempts at re-following people was actually a cause of this. I had tried to unfollow and refollow a handful of people to try to get the ball rolling, but all that did was put them into my follow_requests table (ON a.id = fr.target_account_id) for some reason. Not only did that fuck the follow UI, it didn't even send the activity messages along to the other side in the first place.

If I had to do this again, I would just edit my profile, as that's enough to notify instances that you're back. Things came back pretty quickly after that.

What should have happened, as we all know, is 3, 2, 1.

Show threadJerry 🦙💝🦙Mar 9
@north Mastodon stops delivery attempts after 7 days of failures. it resumes once it starts receiving messages from the remote site. Since you sent this, it should start delivering again
Show threadJason Parker (he/they)Mar 9
@jerry Does it have to specifically tag that instance? I sent a bunch of stuff yesterday.
Show threadJerry 🦙💝🦙Mar 9
@north I am not 100% sure. the message needs to be sent in a way that it is delivered to the instance that has stopped trying. It appears that it started again now (since we are conversing here), so maybe it does require tagging someone.
Show threadJason Parker (he/they)Mar 9

@jerry That makes sense - insomuch as federation and networking can ever really make sense, anyways. Thanks for the response, and again, for giving me a temporary home (@north) I don't know what I would've done without that.

I hope you all know how good you've got it over there.