A couple days ago, someone posted on /0 (the meta community for the Divisions by zero) that the incoming federation from lemmy.world (the largest lemmy instance by an order of magnitude) is malfunctioning. Alarmed, I started digging in, since a federation problem with lemmy.world will massively affect the content my community can see. As always [...]
The official instructions do not scale nor do they work for all situations. But besides that, the problem is not that my bad setup caused a problem. Shit happens and I didn’t blame anyone but myself. The problems is that when a problem occurs, one has to get lucky to get support. I don’t have to even prove this. I know for sure a fact that there’s lemmy instances that decommissioned because they followed the default setup, run into issues, got no support and gave up.
Edit: Also, man, from one Foss developer to another: You really have to learn to stop the instinct to say ‘it broke because you did it wrong’. I know it feels unfair, but trust me, this is not the way.