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[โ€“] rimu@piefed.social 37 points 3 days ago (3 children)

piefed.social's server is coping fine but I recommend new people join any other instance. Look for one with a rocket or lightning icon - https://piefed.social/auth/instance_chooser

[โ€“] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 12 points 3 days ago (2 children)

What do the rocket and lightning icons mean?

[โ€“] Skavau@piefed.social 20 points 3 days ago (3 children)

server speed

rocket - fast lightning - medium

[โ€“] Zombie@feddit.uk 8 points 2 days ago

But lightning is faster than rockets... What? This doesn't make any sense at all!

Phew. Picked my instance based on vibes alone, but it turned out good anyway. Didn't even know about the speed ratings.

[โ€“] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hm, I wouldn't have known rocket is faster, since lightning is instantaneous in real life.

Perhaps a speedometer at different speeds and color chunks (low adds first 3rd is filled green, medium adds yellow to the next 3rd, fast adds red to last chunk) would be more intuitive? Though that could also be interpreted as server capacity if the word speed isn't next to the icon. Maybe a little icon legend somewhere nearby could help, or a question mark sign next to the speed icon that explains what it is?

[โ€“] Skavau@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago

Yes, probably.

[โ€“] Blaze@piefed.zip 7 points 3 days ago

Instance responsiveness compared to your location IIRC

[โ€“] squirrel@piefed.kobel.fyi 10 points 3 days ago

Or host your own on bare metal, docker or yunohost :)

[โ€“] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

tfw 99.6% uptime is only medium stability :\

[โ€“] rimu@piefed.social 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's not a technical stability we're talking about there - it's more human. Number of admins with SSH access, whether there are donations coming in, if there are daily backups.

[โ€“] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I'm guessing it's because we fund our instances out of our own pockets, and donations don't cover the entire cost? If you're looking for future improvement ideas, I'd much rather that information be exposed directly, than the word "stability" which implies we have uptime issues

[โ€“] rimu@piefed.social 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Yes I'd be happy to find a better word for it. Although, with low social stability eventually there will be 0% uptime so they are related.

[โ€“] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Although, with low social stability eventually there will be 0% uptime so they are related.

I think that's a bit harsh. As it is, Kaity and I would both have to get hit by buses for us to lose the ability to fund our instances. We're both well in to our careers, with sufficient earning power to cover the finances. We would both have to lose our incomes for the long term, before the site itself became threatened. Long enough to ask for community funding if it came to that.

In real world terms, we've been hosting fediverse instances out of our own pocket for over 3 years now, which is a time period few fediverse instances can match, and even fewer threadiverse instances.

Which is to say, I think our social stability is pretty reasonable by fediverse standards. There absolutely are instances out there with higher levels of social stability, but that's not because they have more community funding, it's because they have more users and more admins, which also comes with requisite organisational structures that lets them run their instances without any individual admins being the point of failure.

[โ€“] rimu@piefed.social 7 points 2 days ago

The intent of that checkbox in the instance chooser settings is really about gauging financial stability. So for people in your position donations from users don't matter so much and you could just tick it. I'm not auditing anyone!

[โ€“] rimu@piefed.social 6 points 3 days ago

Yes, this isn't a personal judgement about your particular circumstances. The instance chooser embeds assumptions about what tends to happen on average. As such it can never fully represent every situation.

[โ€“] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 2 points 2 days ago

support? backing? idk

[โ€“] Egonallanon@feddit.uk 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Anything less than 5 9's of uptime indicates a lack of commitment.

Please do not ask about the uptime of my self hosted services.

[โ€“] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 10 points 3 days ago

Oh crap, I was aiming for 9 5's!