It is frustrating. My only recourse is to shitpost until the uplink is recovered.
this post was submitted on 08 Jan 2024
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It's called venting. Because when I pay for a service and I'm not getting it, sometimes I feel like venting.
It wasn't a criticism, I was commiserating. I personally am shitposting to other local communities.
Sorry I mistook what you wrote for sarcasm 🙂
Yeah, I'm a grad student with limited funds and I contributed to the server when I joined last summer. I don't really want to sacrifice this account, but if we can't interact with anyone else, it kind of defeats the purpose of being federated.
So.. business as usual ^/s^
So that’s why I’m suddenly not getting replies on my posts?
Hang on a minute... Is it??
I was wondering the same.
I think the problem is that we have only one admin, /u/SDF@lemmy.sdf.org , and they aren't very active here. Their last post was 4 months ago.
I have no idea who has access to install software updates. Maybe also just @SDF?
Maybe it's time to take applications to expand the roster? I assume @SDF has many other things in their life, and generally speaking, having only one person who can manage a service is just asking for extended downtime.
This seems to be the issue accross all SDF instances.
lemmy.sdf.org
lemmy.sdfeu.org
lemmy.sdfin.org
lemmy.sdfcn.org (completely down at the moment)
lemmy.sdfjp.org (completely down as well)
I could be wrong but I think this is a general issue within the SDF. It's an incredible organization and I value my membership in it very highly but I wish it were easier to pitch in and volunteer to make things better.
I think I'll give lemmy.ml a shot. It's run by the Lemmy developers so seems like chances are good it'll continue to function properly :)
Ah well, we live in an imperfect world. I'm grateful for them in any case! :)
So I take it they never responded to your volunteer application?
Not as of yesterday, no.
And that's fine, I certainly have no shortage of things to occupy my time, I'd just hoped to be able to help make the SDF even more awesome :)
I'm giving up on this Lemmy FWIW. I signed up over at lemmy.ml
It feels pretty terrible when it feels like you have to literally beg people to let you help them. So, if you’re ready to just move on, by all means. But, by any chance, did you post to Requests on BBOARD saying that you are interested in volunteering and that you sent an application by email but never got a response? It might be worth a try if you still have some action points to spare.
I just want to say, in any case, thanks for trying. This random stranger really appreciates it.
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Is /u/SDF@lemmy.sdf.org (/u/SDF@lemmy.sdf.org) the correct way to ping or is it @SDF@lemmy.sdf.org (@SDF@lemmy.sdf.org)? I’m not sure I’ve ever successfully pinged before.
Looks like there’s a fix incoming: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4288#issuecomment-1878442186
FYI, on lemm.ee I have been testing 0.19.1 patched with the #4330 changes by @phiresky for the past week and have noticed no further issues with outgoing federation, so I think this issue will be resolved with the next release
That patch has been applied (https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4330) so now I guess we’re waiting for a release to be cut. Fingers crossed.
Until it breaks the next time. Really, they should just be less aggressive with the version they upgrade to.
Thank goodness. Hope it's tested and released soon.
Any idea if it'll "catch up" and sync all the messages over the past few days, or just start properly federating new stuff going forward?
In the past, there's been no catch up. Repost anything you want to be seen.
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Has anyone contacted sdf about this?
What would be the right way? @SDF here on lemmy has been pinged afaik. I don't use mastodon, and I don't know where to e-mail.
In the future, maybe we should ask SDF for an official way to contact them outside lemmy. I'm guessing that the admin isn't really a lemmy user, or they would have noticed the whole thing going on.
I realize that I can't demand anything, we're using a free service run by volunteers and donations. I like the community here on SDF, and am interested in finding out how we, together, can make it a great instance.
I asked in #helpdesk on irc and they said to mail membership@sdf.org, which I did earlier this morning.
If I hear back I'll update the thread.
They replied pointing out that the instance now runs 0.19.2.
Seems fixed.
I started looking for an SDF alternative just yesterday, to see if SDF was broken again. So thanks for the post. Guess I will carry on with another account. I'm thinking lemmy.ca.
I might be tempted to jump ship, too, but what I love about SDF’s Lemmy is their reluctance to ban entire other instances. I, and not my instance’s admin, am the one who should have that right in the fediverse.
Do you know another instance that is admined similarly? I have accounts on a few servers but I think they have all been involved in various defederation drama in the past.
Edit: I found this, haven't looked it over yet but hoping to find an alternative to put in my stable of lemmy logins
Exactly. Me too. And no, I do not know of any others like this. :|
I'm hoping this will be helpful: https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances
I think so! I extracted the stuff I wanted in an instance from the CSV. It’s funny that SDF still comes out to be the instance that has the most of what I want.
Lol, yes, that was a bit of a gut punch.
For now I've created accounts on Lemmy.zip and lemmy.dbzer0.com and I'm considering starting my own personal/private instance
So, still broken? How can we even check the status of the federation ?
Easy: post from the SDF instance, then check directly on the other instance if your post made it. If it hasn't after 10 minutes, feel like you wasted your time. Rinse, repeat - until you're tired of wasting your time and open an account on another instance.
It’s frustrating and it makes me sad and disappointed to see the SDF so unresponsive to pretty much all issues (even those raised on the system itself, about the system).
That being said, I actually feel like it makes me do the opposite of waste time, because it’s virtually impossible for me to get sucked into an upsetting interaction here that has no broader consequence beyond making me feel bad.
That's a shame. Problems like this is why lemmy won't go very far imo. Expecting a random person on the internet to go through the signup process which involves applying for an account on some instances is wishful thinking, them understanding what federation is and how it works is very optimistic, but then braking the federation with no warning and no action plan for fixing it is just shooting yourself in the foot.
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Woah, a few minutes ago my test message to sh.itjust.works from 8 days ago finally arrived. Also a comment I made here 8 days ago.
I've sent myself another one about 2 minutes ago, but it hasn't federated yet. We'll see...
Edit: 2 more of my comments federated, latest from 4 days ago. I think we'll be ready to federate smoothly in about 30 minutes, based on last time this happened.
Edit 2: Test message arrived after 17 minutes.
I just had a flurry of replies come in too.
I wonder if this is a result of me emailing sdf this morning?
I see the UI has been updated to version 0.19.2, while the backend is still 0.19.1-rc2. Perhaps the backend update is still in progress. Could be that federation is working again simply because they restarted the backend service.
Hopefully the backend update to 0.19.2 is coming and will be more stable.
I also noticed that the web UI is kind of messed up now. None of the button icons display for me, like for upvote, downvote, reply, or notifications, so it's a little hard to navigate.
I got a reply from membership@sdf.org:
It looks like the site is now running 0.19.2. Can you confirm you still are unable to use it?
I think it's working now.
At the bottom of the web UI it says: BE: 0.19.2
So I guess the upgrade is complete?
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If I remember rightly, the backend update takes a long time as the database needs to do a particularly slow schema update. https://old.lemmy.sdf.org seems to still be ok.
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Nice.
Sad...
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