Vivaldi's Mastodon instance appears to be down and I have some advice for SNS users
Sunday, November 19, 2023
Yikes 😬
My second-most used Mastodon instance is @starrwulfe@vivaldi.net… I hope its scheduled downtime and not a DDOS or worse.
The good thing about federation is they're not the only game in town. My main instance is @starrwulfe@starrwulfe.xyz (which is actually a Wordpress powered blog as well). I practice POSSE so the majority of my nonsense emanates from here and radiates out into the interwebs via syndication thanks to Bridgy and Micro.Blog.
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I’ll be going into detail on how I’m doing this and maybe the reasons behind the philosophy of why it’s important to cultivate a “digital garden” and maintain your own “outpost on the internet” over the next few weeks, but hopefully you can clearly see the “why you should have your own independent services” part of the conversation expressed in the screenshot above. If you’re as old as me, you’ll remember the fledgling days of 2009~2015 or so when the failwhale would show on the Old Bird, and we’d be incommunicado for some minutes/hours/even-days-that-one-time and the innanet would have to resort to… I dunno, email or Google+/Wave or whatever. 🤣
This is one problem #fediverse is trying to solve. If your email server went down, you’d just send that important email from your backup email account (I know you have at least one backup email account you’re not actively using, right? 😏) Why should social media be any different; we’re using SNS (Social Network Services) just like email these days, so we should be treating how we use it in the same manner.