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I have been trying to get access to my feed for most of the day, and I am just getting timed out messages and no feeds. Anyone else part of this instance? Can you confirm if it is alive.

I really like calckey but the stability has me thinking about switching back to vanilla Mastodon.

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[–] maegul@hachyderm.io 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

@hellerphant Yea ... seems something big went bad, like something on the VPS provider broke (see the admin's alt here https://stop.voring.me/notes/9fplmm2ct2ijtu9n).

There's a chance that there's nothing they can do to fix their VPS provider or they're trying to move to a new provider.

Additionally, seems that the brutal thing about going down on the fediverse for a long time is that once you're back up the server has to "catch up" with everything.

[–] hellerphant@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Hmmmm. Now I am definitely starting to think it might be better to move back to standard Mastodon. A whole day gone with no ETA feels kinda bad. I know this kind of stuff can happen, but Calckey was already having some weird issues for me anyway, so I am a little scared away by it.

[–] maegul@hachyderm.io 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@hellerphant
Yea ... it's pretty easy get upset and negative about these things in the moment, especially if things get cleaned up.

But yea, calckey.social was always a kinda beta thing, which was perfectly fine for a young/experimental platform.

But this past week or two has really cemented its beta status and put a wet blanket on any excitement and good-will the platform had.

I kept my mastodon main anyway, but its things like this kinda reveal why mastodon is dominant. Platforms be tricky

[–] hellerphant@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah 100% no shade on what they are doing. I think it's great. But I do want to be able to access my accounts regularly without major problems. I'll stick it out a little longer, mainly because I already lost all my posts migrating from Masto, and I don't want to lose all my posts again migrating back haha.

[–] maegul@hachyderm.io 1 points 1 year ago

@hellerphant

Really vital point you make there. It illustrates the ways in which a dominant platform shapes the ecosystem to be more like it, especially when the ecosystem is one of interconnectedness.

Calckey offers full post migration from mastodon to calckey. Great. But mastodon doesn’t offer the reverse. Ok, don’t use mastodon, that’s shit. But everyone is already using mastodon and have their posts there. Ok, stay on mastodon then, safer!

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