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Thursday SOTD Thread, August 14th, 2025 (#793)
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August 14th, 2025
I haven't used this razor in a little while, and since I had two great straight shaves the past couple of days, I figured it was a good time to break it out and test my new shallow angle skills. Great overall!
I've mentioned before that I wanted to spin up a PieFed server, which is an alternative to Lemmy. I created a new VPS (this time in the USA for much faster latency from where I live) and got it going.
Unfortunately, since I've experimented with PieFed once before and spun up an instance on my home server (using the same domain name (https://wetshav.ing), our little Lemmy instance here has been looking for it (and failing) for the last 3 months since I just spun it up, tested federation, and spun it down. Because of that, federation is broken at the moment. I can seemingly comment on Lemmy posts from PieFed, and Lemmy posts make their way to PieFed, but PieFed posts don't show up on Lemmy, and there's some other weird comment stuff that doesn't work.
Hopefully, once our Lemmy server does it's thing tonight at midnight, it'll reattempt whatever it needs to attempt and everything will catch up. Right now the Lemmy logs say it's 1800+ activities behind, and that it retries every 24 hours. 1800+ sounds like it knows it's about 3 months behind with posts, comments, upvotes, etc all in the queue. So, my hope is that it'll sort of catch up on its own... but it might not.
Anyway, if you want to try PieFed, applications are open at https://wetshav.ing. Just be warned it's still very new to me and could come crashing down at any moment! It should work just like Lemmy but with more options for squashing fascists and other undesirable users.
Nice.
Sure about that?
If it starts working...