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@aescling hmm thats way too much, we should start taking the instance down every new moon

@aescling does the instance really need to be online between three and nine am 🤔

@Satsuma does the purrotocol enforce sufficient reliability constraints to make sure we would get the posts we were supposed to receive during that time? i’m p sure it does but i just wanna be sure befur pulling a funny little stunt like that

@aescling she is playing fire emblem and not looking at her phone

@aescling i asked her and she said “no guarantees” but mastodon is supposed to retry delivering posts that failed to deliver the furst time for 7 days

@Satsuma @aescling For the most part this seems effective (especially when I've taken my instance down for one reason or another), but be warned that they're Sidekiq retries with increasing backoff, so if you're down for very long you'll receive messages out of order. (Not sure what other systems do, there's no requirement in the protocol but in practice retrying for a while is useful.)

@Satsuma @aescling i like being able to check the instance in the morning to see what y'all posted after i went to sleep

@alyssa ahh yes the morning newspaper of fedi is v important, @aescling make sure you put it back up in time

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A small, community‐oriented Mastodon‐compatible Fediverse (GlitchSoc) instance managed as a joint venture between the cat and KIBI families.