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
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?
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.
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
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.
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!
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.
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
What do the rocket and lightning icons mean?
server speed
rocket - fast lightning - medium
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.
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?
Yes, probably.
Instance responsiveness compared to your location IIRC
tfw 99.6% uptime is only medium stability :\
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.
Sorry, all this is undocumented.
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
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.
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.
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!
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.
support? backing? idk
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.
Oh crap, I was aiming for 9 5’s!
Or host your own on bare metal, docker or yunohost :)