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.

  • Bebo
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    29 months ago

    I am very confused (total Fediverse noob here). Which link should I click and follow where for getting updates if something is wrong? Please explain it to me like you would to a five year old. I am following you on Mastodon where your username has “wandering shop” (that’s you, right or am I mistaken?).

    • gabe [he/him]OPMA
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      19 months ago

      So, if the site is down and something is up with the instance go to https://status.literature.cafe, that will provide updates as to whether its up or down or not. That’s the first place to start from.

      For when you want to follow on mastodon and get notifications for important instance updates, go to https://sleepy.ink/@status and enable notifications for that account. It will provide info if something major breaks. (hopefully never, but its just in case)

      • Bebo
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        29 months ago

        OK got it. Now I am following sleepy ink status account.

    • gabe [he/him]OPMA
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      10 months ago

      Yeah, sleepy.ink’s main domain should default to my gabe account, you just have to use @status@sleepy.ink on other platforms for it or https://sleepy.ink/@status. It’s intentional since I don’t plan on using the status page a whole lot (hopefully) but rather as a backup and that instance is gonna remain a single user instance of mine. I’ll put a link in my bio for @gabe to the status account though in case the forwarding messes up for someone

      • @it_a_me
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        210 months ago

        I don’t me the instance default. I just meant the url on status.literature.cafe since all the other url’s are lemmy related

        • gabe [he/him]OPMA
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          OH yeah, doing that would require setting an entirely different gotosocial instance which i dont find really worth it. I already run my own, and since the account is just for the purposes of fall back communications it seems ok to have that there Edit: I’m silly, yeah I fixed it! Good catch