Its their instance, let them ruin it in whichever way they prefer. Dont like it? Block it.
This is why you can spin up your own personal lemmy instance as a backup to use if your main goes down.
I like the centralized and understandable moderation of this larger space.
The smaller communities are basically little fiefdoms where you can follow the rules, but if the mods still don’t like you, then you get banned with no appeal process.
That’s why it’s called “federated” and nont “decentralized”
Freenet/Hyphanet is I think too slow for modern internet users. P2P networks have always struggled with solving the service lookup and access problem.
Even advancements like DHTs or cheat methods like trackers will still only get you so far compared to plain old client server DNS.
Bruh.
While a traditional social networking service will host all its content on servers managed by the owner of the website, the decentralized structure of the Fediverse allows any individual or organization to host a social platform using their own servers…. [Source]
(Emphasis mine)
sh.itjust.works was down too. I just switched instances which is the point. It’s not supposed to fail over, it just can’t be taken down because there are more instances. I sure wish my client could auto fail over to one of my other accounts grab posts though.
So sh.itjustdoesnot.works
Sh.itjust.works, unless it’s CloudFlare.
sh.itjust.works was down too
I sure wish my client could auto fail over to one of my other accounts grab posts though.
I mean, in theory, the folks admining .world could create their own fail-over. But hosting costs money and redundancy costs even more money and this continues to be - at its heart - a labor of love by a handful of charitable admins, not an enterprise level app looking to maximize uptime for revenue.
To get Fediverse to switch instances or substitute a working mirror, you’d have to pivot away from the inherently decentralized nature of the application. At a minimum, you’d need an endpoint that worked as a switch between communities.
Like, its possible, in the same way Torrents have a single entry point that ties out to a semi-unreliable cluster of hosters. But it is not (to my knowledge) how Fediverse is currently designed.
I never tried it so i don’t know: i can just login on another instance with my account made on the instance that is down?
No, but the fediverse doesn’t go down just because one instance is down.
You would need multiple accounts (one per instance), but you could just switch instances if you had that set up
It does when the majority of communities are on one server. This one included.
No.
That’s not how fediverse decentration works. =P
I’ve got eight accounts now on different homes and four at least weren’t working
All three instances im on are CF backed, you can guess how that went.
