ROllerozxa

Wrong mindset:
"Oh no, a serious inconvenience happened, and I spent so much time on resolving it, I am absolutely devastated!"

Right mindset:
"A serious inconvenience has happened, I overcame it and I have so much to write about it for a blog post!"

I've been through enough things happening with Fosstodon that I really have no excuse to not have moved to another instance earlier.

But I have always dragged my feet on it because of how old posts will be left behind on the old instance. Having to move again because I end up with the same situation on another instance is just terrible. It gives me decision anxiety.

(and I have no real idea to what instance to move either)

(Photo of an inscription of the BankID logo someone made on top of a mountain)

"Splendid, a gender neutral public toilet!"

The perfect instance for me would be a self-hosted single user instance with as few moving parts as possible while still being able to interact across the Fediverse, and which could degrade to a static microblog if necessary. But I don't think that exists in a ready to use state unfortunately.

"Alright time to get Docker installed on this Debian server"

$ sudo apt install docker

"Hmm where is Docker..."

$ apt show docker

[...] This is a transitional package for system tray docking application. It can safely be removed.

Well that was sure the wrong Docker.

I have a list of domains for old internet communities that I have been part of in the past, but that have since been shut down. While the servers are down, people usually hold onto the domain name, so I occasionally like to check if anyone is home.

Usually it's just the same browser error, site can't be reached. The domain has no IP associated anymore, or what was hosted is since long gone. Nothing to see here, move on.

I moved the contents of a whole server to another cloud provider last week merely on a whim, but that process was practically lossless. :)

Maybe I'll give it some days...

Well, I have been considering mastodon.nu which is a local instance and ticks basically all of my criteria, but I don't know whether the federation will suffer on a non-English instance which may be a bit more isolated from the rest of the international network.

I used to post from there on another account and it was sometimes hard to interact with other parts of the network without poking and prodding to make it fetch the posts. But it would still be doable though.

Apparently there have been Fedi meta I have not been caught up to. Oh no.

It's gone about a week since the IP spoofing attack happened now. I still haven't received a response from OVH on the abuse reports, but the server is still somehow up.

One would assume they would respond to say the tickets are resolved? Either they did that without saying or the server is still in limbo.

Doesn't really matter anymore though when I've gotten a better deal for a server elsewhere and have moved everything over by now. And so it goes.