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Solarpunk instance going offline for awhile was like a true solarpunk experience (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 2 days ago by Lazycog@sopuli.xyz to c/solarpunk@slrpnk.net
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First of all, I love you, slrpnk admins. You handled it all like champions! Happy to have you back.

Someone said in one one of the matrix chats during the outage that the fact that this instance is selfhosted and went down is like true experience of a solarpunk world; there won't always be power and that's okay!

Just wanted to write it down in a post since that message was so spot on.

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[-] poVoq@slrpnk.net 39 points 2 days ago

But then Lemmygrad would have to shut down every day after working hours as in the socialist worker's paradise these things are taken very serious and no bureocrat will work even an minute longer than the official working hours. /s

Joking aside, yes... hosting on older hardware and on a regular fiber connection does mean that if hardware breaks it can take a while to replace.

We have a bit of redundancy with PSUs and so on, and this specific issue we had now could have been avoided (and will be in the future), but we do trade off some reliability for the fun of DIY self-hosting (and it is also much cheaper).

[-] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 20 points 2 days ago

Ha true!

And also I love that, please keep it fun. I feel like it's truly a solarpunk instance that way :)

[-] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 14 points 2 days ago

I was wondering why you mentioned Lemmygrad so I did a quick research, damn, you've been beefing since 2022?

[-] poVoq@slrpnk.net 20 points 2 days ago

Even before that 😅

But it's fine, they can have their online safe-space for circle jerking about Stalin and Mao if they want 🤷

[-] cabbage@piefed.social 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I would assume they have a five-year hosting plan. ;)

this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2025
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