[HELP] What's the best way to reach a given instance's admins (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by bahmanm@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

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I'm working on lemmy-meter which is a simple observability solution for Lemmy end-users like me, to be able to check the health of a few endpoints of their favourite instance in a visually pleasing way.

👉 You can check out a screenshot of the pre-release landing page.

💡 Currently, lemmy-meter sends 33 HTTP GET requests per minute to a given instance.

For a few reasons, I don't wish lemmy-meter to cause any unwanted extra load on Lemmy instances.
As such I'd like it be an opt-in solution, ie a given instance's admin(s) should decide whether they want their instance to be included in lemmy-meter's reports.

❓ Now, assuming I've got a list of instances to begin w/, what's the best way to reach out to the admins wrt lemmy-meter?

PS: The idea occurred to me after a discussion RE momentary outages.

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[-] Penguincoder@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

33 HTTP GET requests per minute to a given instance.

That is way beyond acceptable use, and would likely have your service blocked. There exists these services too :

https://lemmy-status.org/

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats

Maybe those do what you're trying to do?

There is not an "admin inbox" for lemmy instances. You can hit the endpoint /api/v3/site for information about an instance including the admins list.

[-] activistPnk@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That is way beyond acceptable use

Each server would have its own acceptable use policy. Also consider the social detriment of Cloudflare nodes. We could even say @bahmanm@lemmy.ml has a moral /duty/ to overwork the Cloudflare nodes :)

@Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de: thanks for pointing out lestat. That’s one of the very few services of this kind to be responsible enough to red-flag the Cloudflare nodes. I hope @bahmanm@lemmy.ml follows that example; though it could still be improved on.

It’s misleading for any tor-blocking Cloudflare node to have a 100% availability stat just because by design it deliberately breaks availability to a number of users in an arbitrarily discriminatory fashion. https://lemmy-status.org/ and https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats do a bit of a disservice by not omitting or flagging #Cloudflare nodes.

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