I defederated us from two lemmy instances:

  • exploding-heads: transphobia
  • basedcount: finally I get to ban most of r/PoliticalCompassMemes in one go
  • self@awful.systemsOPMEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    true! our kbin situation seems to be unique to our infrastructure (are we one of the only lemmy servers running behind a load balancer?), but federation bugs in general are really hard to fix and I’d love better tooling around it. maybe something like an ActivityPub health dashboard that’d flag issues with outgoing/incoming requests?

    • David Gerard@awful.systemsEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      “i’ll set up a Lemmy to play with,” you told yourself, “I’ll get some users on it cos I liked those subreddits,” you told yourself, “it’ll be easy,” you told yourself,

      • self@awful.systemsOPMEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        I can assure you that much like that Kennedy quote startup founders keep stealing to justify their sub imploding, I’m not choosing to go to the Lemmy because it’s easy, but to one-up the Marxist—leninists because it’s hard

      • self@awful.systemsOPMEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        I’m in touch with the kbin dev about it, but they are understandably swamped