PSA: In case you were experiencing problems with feddit.org, this is because a post from feddit reached the front page of Hacker News.
I wonder if the caching is not aggressive enough or something.
I had a PeerTube video from my instance on the HN FrontPage last week and the load was minimally higher compared to before or after.
I had several of my blogposts on HN FrontPage in the past. The first time it happened it brought my poor VPS to the Knies, but I learned from it and cached pages with nginx for some minutes and since then never had any problems. Just invalidate the cache when there are changes.
How does peertube cache? I know it P2P the video which is nice in case anything goes viral, but I never took the time to figure out any caching.
My tiny single digit user instance seems to keep up with any traffic on a equivalent of a pi.....so I assume its good .
I also put the video itself into a S3 bucket, so PeerTube basically only has to show the meta data and the comments from my server, so kind of like what Mastodon or Lemmy/PieFed has to do. I just had a look at the [PeerTube nginx config((https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/blob/develop/support/nginx/peertube) but couldn't see anything there which would do caching, so I assume the app does it's own caching somewhere.
For my website, which is a rails application, I did
undefined
proxy_cache_path /var/lib/nginx/cache/jeena.net keys_zone=jeenanet:30m;
and then
undefined
location @rails {
# ...
proxy_cache jeenanet;
}
DDoS by venture capitalism.
That was how the Internet worked back in the day. Site reliability for small sites was shit and going viral would routinely pull a smaller site down.
If only there was a solution to that.
It's been somewhere on reddit as well today
That's not a "post from feddit.org," that's a "post by a feddit.org user on a lemmy.ml community." It may be DDOSing feddit.org because that server's view of it is the link that happened to go viral, but there's no reason folks outside Lemmy couldn't view it on the server it's actually posted on, or some other third node like lemmy.world or whatever.
The original link ap_id corresponds to the author's instance.
User@feddit.org posts to community@lemmy.ml. The path the post will take is this:
User -> Author's instance -> Community's instance -> Notified to all other instances subscribed, to download from author's instance.
As for your other point, there is no good universal Lemmy linking thing for posts. communities and users have names that work on any instance, but there's no similar unique identifier for posts.
Fashy tech bros incoming...
I'll be honest, there's a lot of reasonable people on HackerNews. Not only tech bros.
I would agree in the past but in the last few years this site has doubled down on the silicon valley brand of techno-fascism and I just can't read the comments without losing faith in "hacker culture" at this point.
Nice! I have a feeling that most of the fediverse dont use a whole lot of caching. I dont really enjoy some of the things cloudflare does, but it does do a good job with caching.
Is Memcache still a thing? I remember using that for a LOT of older apps back in the day.
IMO what we need is a different sort of thing more like load-balancing than caching, where users from outside the Fediverse (i.e. who aren't logged in to the server whose URL they're trying to load and thus probably don't actually have a strong preference about which instance they actually view it from) get redirected to other instances to help spread out the load.
There's no particular reason why the entirety of Hacker News and Reddit needs to be piling in to view this thing that was posted to !linux@lemmy.ml just because a feddit.org user happened to have been the one who wrote it (and possibly shared it).
Posts and comments already have a chain icon for the URL of the view of them on the user's current server and a fediverse graph icon for the URL of them on the poster's home server, but maybe there needs to be a third icon for the lemmyverse link url or something like that.
I have no idea how to get my app to open the original article ( https://feddit.org/post/18353777 ) so I'll just mention here that I installed PostmarkedOS on my ancient Wileyfox Swift a few days ago.
And while it was very exciting this particular setup was barely usable. I tried all the UI / DE options but only Phosh and KDE recognized touch inputs (so I could not do anything on Gnome and SXMO or whatever it is called). Phosh had some very weird problems with the onscreen keyboard and flickering menus and KDE had amazing graphical glitches (it really was quite something, I wish I had taken photos with another camera now) and sleep wasn't working even after the fixes from the wiki. I really wanna check it out on mever hardware at some point through, I think it's a really cool project:
Sounds like a skill issue.
That's a Zionist server
I hate that it needs repeatedly saying, but its not. Its just based in Germany which has very draconian speech laws relating to Israel and the admins don't want to be arrested
Can confirm that Germany is cucked by fascists and only getting worse. AfD is on the rise and doesn't seem to be slowing down.
Is that true though? Is it really a Zionist server?
There are a lot of people who vaguely lean pro-Israel (but may be revaluating their position in light of recent news), who cannot be called Zionist.
I just think words matter and one shouldn't debase the meaning of the world Zionists.
There are two mega threads on Ye power tripping bastards community.
You can review this discussion for yourself.
My conclusion is that they used the law to hide behind. Sure some of the offending content should be removed per German law but there is a lot more censorship that happens on there to ensure that zio view points are validated and genocide is white washed.
A lot of people who discussed the censorship outside of feddit.Org got banned on it despite never posting there.
Genocide agenda will not be questioned ✊
Well yeah it's a fascist server so zionism comes with the territory.