This is a Lemmy-ui bug, not related to CDN/cache.

I had submitted a bug report for it some time ago but it’s not that urgent in the great scheme of things so they didn’t get around to it yet: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1865

(the report speaks about this happening after you log in, but it’s the same thing).

Awesome project and the tool looks great - nice work!

There was an existing tool which was similar: https://federation-checker.vercel.app/

Yours is definitely nicer.

That project is a great find, thanks! A real time saver, I should have these marked up shortly.

I’ll do some more thinking on how we represent Cloudflare instances in general, I think for the time being I may just include a short note for them as people will wonder why they’re marked anyway.

Edit: This is now done, all Cloudflare instances marked and an explanation added.

Hey, thanks for your feedback. I like your idea of labeling Cloudflared services, reporting is indeed a bit tricky for those especially if they use “Always online” to serve cached copies while the instance is down. I have some ideas on how to combat that, but labeling them also makes sense.

I can add tags against services - I have done this for ani.social as a proof of concept, I think it works but I welcome feedback. Sorting through the entire list is a bit daunting and will take me a while, but I’ll get there.

Manually adjusting availability is a can of worms that I don’t want to open, I’d rather we try to find other ways to level the playing field.

Yes it was changed some time ago: https://github.com/LemmyNet/joinlemmy-site/pull/170

I think you’re one “active user” short of being back on there:

I believe you need 5 to be listed.

I’ve updated the post to include clickable URLs. Lesson learnt that I shouldn’t rely on clients to treat domain names as links.

Thanks for your feedback. I like your idea, I’ll have a look into what I can do to make it happen.

Absolutely!

Uptime Kuma Github: https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma

Note that I am not the creator of Uptime Kuma, https://github.com/louislam gets all the credit there.

It’s just a play on words: Le(mmy) + Stat(us) or Le Stat(us)

I think it’s short and easy to remember, the fact that it’s also the name of a famous vampire is just a bonus.

Https HEAD requests - I find it yields accurate results for Lemmy and it’s extremely light on bandwidth.

https://lestat.org

Hey thanks for your feedback. I’ve made them all URLs now.

Search and sort are tricky as it’s not something Uptime Kuma status pages can do, I’ll look into what can be done there.

Of all the ones to miss!

Thanks for pointing it out, I’ve added it now.

In practice UPC will probably have some kind of fair use policy buried in its terms of service - your best bet is to go through those terms and see what you find. Fair use typically means they will start throttling you beyond a certain point. Most ISPs keep this reasonably vague (e.g. if your usage is in excess of what they deem to be reasonable, but no actual data amounts defined).

Not all ISPs have a fair use policy though, and typically you’re better off on large ISPs where your usage doesn’t really stand out that much.

It’s not a mass exodus. There was a sizeable influx of people from Reddit to Lemmy/kbin, sure, but that’s measured in the (low) hundreds of thousands. Reddit has hundreds of millions of active users.

The reality is it’s not even close to a mass exodus, not yet.

Yes, it just means that there are 9 people from vlemmy that have subbed to that community. This bit is a bit confusing, for example if nobody had subbed to it yet from vlemmy then it would show 0 subs.

Hey, you should be able to search for it, this may help you: https://lemdit.com/post/18035

I am able to find it from vlemmy:

Note that it won’t show up in the search results if you are not logged in.

Defederation is simultaneously very useful and very dangerous.

Large instances have the power to kill smaller ones by defederating them, since they control an overwhelming share of Fediverse content. That is a lot of power in the hands of a small group of people, each potentially with their own views and agendas.

I think defederation should be reserved for openly malicious servers and used as an absolute last resort. Think of the Internet and how horrible it would be if countries decided to just disconnect from other countries based on conflicting ideologies.

The vast majority of users on legitimate instances just want to explore interesting things, share some thoughts and have a good time. Defederating hurts legitimate users the most, trolls can easily hop instances and find another way to troll.

If you always had e-mail verification turned on then you can get rid of some of these junk sign-ups relatively easy, I wrote a guide for it here: https://lemdit.com/post/16430

From what I’ve seen, most of the bot sign-ups that are swelling instance User numbers wouldn’t have passed e-mail verification. I think it was done mostly to prove a point, rather than an attempt to actually use those accounts.

Instances that didn’t have e-mail verification turned on are in a much harder spot.