Hi there! I’ve been trying to improve the situation for the past few hours. I managed to disable CF Protection, and as you can see, I’m gradually allowing traffic from the fediverse. There may still be delays in deliveries and posts for some time. If anything is particularly troublesome, please let me know through the contact form. Sorry for the temporary blackouts. New possibilities have emerged, which I’d like to discuss with you soon. Now I need a few hours for a nap, shower, and I have to grab something to eat because I can’t survive on bananas only :P
And look at this!
https://fedia.io/
Just please be understanding towards the new admins. This is still a prototype, and what we’re doing here is meant to yield results in the future. I’m doing everything I can to get back to patching critical things in the code as quickly as possible. Have fun! :)
Oooh and You can send me your domain name ideas via pm.
https://kbin.social/u/ernest/message
Exactly, it’s what Calckey, Pixelfed, and even Mastodon did when their meta instances were being overloaded with new sign ups
It also confused the shit out of newbies who neither know nor care what an instance is and find the idea too outside of their existing comprehension or level of caring to wrap their heads around.
If it’s too hard for you to click a “join a different instance/server” button and select any that’s available, then I just don’t know what to tell you. It’s not that it’s confusing, people just got extremely lazy when all they have to do is open of the 5 mega-platforms like Twitter and Reddit to access everything.
That’s a funny way of saying “to an end user, not having to give a shit about what instance you’re on is an objectively easier and thus better experience”.
Particularly when most people couldn’t tell you what a server even is. It just makes them confused because it’s neither something they understand nor something they’re going to be motivated to care about.
If using a platform feels like hard work compared to its competitors, that’s a failing of the platform, not of users. Users don’t owe the platform anything.
I can guarantee there are also plenty of things you, in common with everyone else, simply do not care about and cannot be convinced to care about, and would similarly consider it an imposition to be required to care about them or be judged as “lazy”.
Do you think normal people know anything about client-server architecture, or are willing to learn? A successful service must have a single website with a single auth system, with a domain name having few characters at .com, or a competing service will win.