What is so special about piefed? I see a few communities moving there. The interface looks different from the original lemmy interface.
Our sysadmin explained some technical advantages here: https://feddit.org/post/13613230/7063696
Postgres slowing factor
I’m pretty sure one of the best optimised free/libre DBMS’s is faster than Python 💀
Also no one know how Piefed scales, since it only has like 350 MAU
Reread it. They’re saying “The slowest part is postgres, so even if python is slower than rust it won’t make a difference.”
Piefed also uses PostgreSQL. He was mentioning that the limiting factor on either platform is the DB, meaning that the parts written in Python will likely not be a limiting factor.
Piefed also has quite impressive optimizations in other areas as well compared to Lemmy or even Mbin.
Well, you can add flairs :)
That sucks.
Did they run out of sun?
No, just punk.
Maybe is vacationing in United Kingdom
After a month and a half downtime all the users will have moved on to other instances. This is essentially a death sentence for the instance and its communities.
I don’t think so, I will definitely go back and do not wish to move permanently in another instance.
As others have said I think this instance has a strong base of dedicated users, it’s a “specialized” instance that has no equivalent.
Idk, quite a few (me included) made alt accounts for the time being, and we’ll return when it becomes possible, especially if we really do migrate to piefed.
You underestimate the userbase. I made a temp account in the mean time, but we are a hyper tight knit community. We will probably lose accounts - no question - but the core userbase will return
Count me in! Slrpnks all the way! 💚
The local communities are such a great mix of uplifting and informative posts that I am sure to return.
I agree. I replied to Kris elsewhere saying this, but I am super glad to have been a part of this instance because it feels like a nice balance of being large enough to be robust and diverse, but small enough to have a distinctive culture. I don’t often interact with the communities that were on the instance, but I always enjoy seeing my peers crop up in the comments of various posts — it’s one of my favourite parts of Lemmy being federated (db0 is another example of an instance that has such a distinctive vibe that seeing it as someone’s instance is often useful metadata that affects how I parse their comment)
I dont think it will be. I’ve had two accounts for a while to deal with unexpected issues & will happily return to my slrpnk account once it’s back up and running :)
Plus for the communities, people who were subscribed to them before will likely stay subscribed & once the instance is back up the posts will be in their feeds without an issue.
Being able to accommodate issues like this is one of the major upsides to a decentralized platform.
You may underestimate user dedication. I love my instance and totally would come back after a few months away temporarily.
You got me on the communities though.
Fediverse is designed to handle servers with less than stellar reliability.
I think the migration to Piefed would be worse. Piefed is great, but needs better App support for Lemmy users to migrate. A merge of the Thunder fork into main Thunder would get the ball rolling.
Tag @Kris@feddit.org
On Android you can use the Interstellar app https://interstellar.jwr.one/ with piefed.social! Also iOS: https://testflight.apple.com/join/JXRtHye2
They didn’t need you anyway.
Why is this a jpg?
Because fuck blind people, that’s why
Just be happy that the jpg is not embedded in docx
Itself embedded in an auto extractable zip executable.
Archived once more in RAR, just for sure.
And then tar.bz2 on top so that no basic users of sidewalks can ever open it.
It wouldn’t be meme-worthy were it lossless.
Is this loss dot jaypeg
ikr
svg, lossless webp, or png are way better options for an image of text
JPEG XL would be the true future format, unfortunately Google killed it
Not yet they haven’t
They’re doing their best though
Alt text:
Slrpnk.net is currently offline due to an unforseen hardware failure in combination with the main system-administrators having no physical access to the server location until mid July due to work or summer-holiday related travels.
We are very sorry for this unforseen down-time, but slrpnk.net will return for sure and we already have some plans for a nice relaunch, so stay tuned!
Thank you so much for the update - I hadn’t had access for about a week and was getting worried. Couldn’t reach them on XMPP either.
I’ll be back when they get back up.
Wondering if a volunteer could go to the physical location necessary to restore service. If it’s in Athens Greece, I can make the trip.
Edit: The server is located in Azores, the flight would cost 415eur, I cannot afford that, maybe someone in Portugal could help?
Is it in a data centre or someone’s house? If the latter, would they let a stranger in?
Surely they would need a backup and replicate db to so in case of hardware failure they switch over.
Sounds like they could improve their setup.
Too much of a single point of failure.
Probably quite expensive, and when doing something as a hobby it’s often hard to get the funds.
