First of all, I love you, slrpnk admins. You handled it all like champions! Happy to have you back.
Someone said in one one of the matrix chats during the outage that the fact that this instance is selfhosted and went down is like true experience of a solarpunk world; there won’t always be power and that’s okay!
Just wanted to write it down in a post since that message was so spot on.
In addition to this excellent point, during the outage I saw several people asking which server to switch to from .ee, and the replies made me realize how much I love it here. My fellow Slrpnkians didn’t get all bent out of shape and pissed about things the admin just simply couldn’t control at the time. From what I saw (maybe it’s different in private messages/behind the scenes, iunno) any people talking about the skrpnk outage from their alts were all being very reasonable, understanding, and just being generally decent netizens. I love it around here.
That’s the kind of commenting I saw from slrpnk users as well!
I feel like downtimes are a badge of honor for self-hosting in some ways. Being more efficient and minimal means there will be slightly less redundancy and that can be a good thing. Perfect uptime to avoid lost revenue during downtime is a capitalist craze, and not how an ecological project should operate.
Indeed. The instances that have solid uptime have, in most cases, sold their soul to the devil (aka Cloudflare, which is a centralised threat on the free world and all things good).