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Solarpunk instance going offline for awhile was like a true solarpunk experience (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 week 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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[–] ellie@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I feel like downtimes are a badge of honor for self-hosting in some ways. Being more efficient and minimal means there will be slightly less redundancy and that can be a good thing. Perfect uptime to avoid lost revenue during downtime is a capitalist craze, and not how an ecological project should operate.

[–] MysteriousSophon21@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Totally agree - there's something authentic about accepting occasional downtime as part of the self-hosted journey, plus it encourages redudancy planning like those portable LFP power stations you can compare on gearscouts.com which fit perfectly with solarpunk ideals of energy independence.

[–] activistPnk@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 week ago

Indeed. The instances that have solid uptime have, in most cases, sold their soul to the devil (aka Cloudflare, which is a centralised threat on the free world and all things good).