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The mods are back to life there and have cleaned things up.

status.literature.cafe is now fully up and running, as well as two alternative front ends: old.literature.cafe and ph.literature.cafe, big thanks to Arthur for setting the alt front ends up!

For those who may or may not already know, I do run my own gotosocial instance as well for myself. I have a secondary status account there for lemmy server updates. If anything goes majorly wrong, I will use that to display messages as well as status.literature.cafe. The link to the system status page is sleepy.ink/@status. Feel free to subscribe thru Mastodon over there (and turn on notifications if you'd like!) for updates. Hope to never have to have use that account, but it's good have it on hand just in case.

You're also free to request to to follow my main account on sleepy.ink as well, that will be my personal fedi presence outside of lemmy when gotosocial supports account migration :P

Thank yall so much for your patience in this, and a big thanks to Arthur as well. Alongside the support of other instance admins. Lemmy.world admins have been extremely kind and helpful in helping us to problem solve things when need be as well.

I am very grateful that some kind folks from the lemmy.world team actually took the time out of their day to look into their database to check what data they had on this instance to try to help problem solve when we were first having issues federating. With the way activitypub works (the software that powers federation) there are keys that help power federation, and I was worried they had been mismatched. They weren't and were able to confirm when they checked. They didn't have to do that, but they did. One of their team members even patiently helped me try and troubleshoot the instance database to make sure something wasn't borked on our end as well.

I have way too damn many lol. probably at least 400

TL;DR: There's been very very problematic posts from feddit.nl and the admins have been basically MIA with open registration and open image uploads, I'm monitoring the situation closely and am hopeful it will be resolved soon. But it's just far too risky right now until there's word from their team. I am in discussion with lemmy.world admins and will be following their decision on this one as it's very very concerning to stay federated with them right now. This is hopefully only temporarily until the admin team with feddit.nl are verified as basically being alive.

For lemmy.world's team info: https://lemmy.world/post/4985465

for those that enjoyed the trending community bot, it has been (hopefully temporarily moved to) !trendingcommunities@endlesstalk.org

Alongside that if you want to see our list of censured and endorsed instances, literature.cafe is on fediseer which is a decentralized crowd security tool to track spam & problematic fedi instances and share blocklists in a fashion that alleviates the "central admin HOA" complaints some people sometimes have with traditional centralized fediblock lists.

https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/literature.cafe

cross-posted from: https://literature.cafe/post/1220527

How many times even has this happened?!?!

How many times even has this happened?!?!

Seems like shittykopper was right, and the server was basically seen as dead for a time. We are slowly but surely comin back baby!!! I'll make the "what are you reading" post on Wednesday to give everything some time to simmer and all the other lemmy instance senpais to notice us.

Also, welcome Arthur to the admin team! Please thank them for getting this shit back online and helping fix this mess LMAO

We have switched our server provider to hetzner, with a specifically dedicated server now! For now, emails are disabled with them. Gonna try to enable them soon, by messaging hetzner when I can. For now, if you need to reset your password just message an admin.

Server cost for this month: $11.99/mo Object storage with wasabi: $6.20 (last months cost) and right now it is $2.

Gonna put this info here for our continued improvement

To-do:

• Bring other lemmy web front ends online (alexandrite, photon, etc) back online. (likely on a different VPS than the main one.)
• Automate offsite backups with backblaze.
• Enabling cloudflare hash scanning (have an interview with NCMEC soon!)
• Restoring the /legal page with a legit privacy policy.
• Creating an uptimekuma page for status.literature.cafe again.
• Streamlining server monitoring using grafana/prometheus to keep track of things and automate things more so I don't have to physically ssh into the server (especially if I'm away from my desktop)
• Making sure we are properly in line with DMCA safe harbor rules in the US.

I read a bit more of the Seven Moons of Maali Almeida and it's really good so far.