I wanna give the fediverse and Mastodon a shout out for coping absolutely fine with some big world events this year in terms of network stability - e.g.
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I wanna give the fediverse and Mastodon a shout out for coping absolutely fine with some big world events this year in terms of network stability - e.g. a presidential candidate assassination attempt, a bunch of elections, ongoing wars, CrowdStrike crashing the things they protect, the OCP takeover of America, brat summer etc.
Society might be collapsing but at least we have each other and cat videos.
Also hilariously almost all the servers here are run by people in their spare time, yoloooooo
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@GossiTheDog As a private small server big shoutout to those who run relay servers, without those my feed would be silent.
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The Psychotic Network Ferretreplied to Kevin Beaumont last edited by
@GossiTheDog I am pretty convinced at this point that the biggest reason for instability in so-called production networks is because of the enterprises' addiction to professional software solutions with support contracts.
If production environments were run with the software most of us techs would actually prefer to use, companies would save money and reliability would increase.
But businesses need that support contract, they need a phone number to call and yell at when shit goes down. Everything is a mystical black box, and IT professionals are basically just coordinating vendor support. No one knows how anything works anymore.
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Fediverse also surviving the great BlueSky outage of 2024
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A kinda interesting thing about the BlueSky outage for hours today is it’s supposed to be a decentralised network - but it centrally failed. Try taking down Mastodon. You can’t. It’s actually decentralised.
