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Is there a way to find a local server with reliable uptime? (lemmy.fediverse.observer)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've been having a lot of lag on lemmy.world lately, moreso during certain times of the day. I'm not sure if this is because of geographic location or just burden on the server.

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list shows a list of all servers and their uptime but does not give how long a server has been online. Uptime is a somewhat unreliable measure of reliability because they might have only been online for a day.

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/map gives the closest server but most local servers have only 1-4 users and there is no way to gauge whether those servers are reliable or trustworthy.

Is there a tool to find the closest server with a reliable uptime over a period of months with at least >100 users?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The volunteer opening I linked is for a junior ops engineer. There is a separate opening for a mod. The ops engineer position is to help keep the servers running. If you want a server to stay reliable, you need people doing that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ah. But at the same time it would be good if Lemmy was not as centralized on a single server. Lemmy.world is most of Lemmy at the moment, and when it goes down almost every other server is a snapshot frozen in time.

I think it would be good if there were better tools to find closer servers (like geographically <1000km ) and to spread the fediverse out a bit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Part of the ops engineering effort (if the person is up to it) could be improving the software for higher reliability. The improvements could then be used on other instances as well.