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jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:
So there are several things that could be wrong: the blacksky PDS could be overloaded/down, but I don't think so since I can't see anything on bluesky at all, even when logged out, and I can't login to another account hosted on their PDS. the feed provider could be down, but that's also unlikely because the same error appears twice, (in two different ways?) for a third party and a first-party feed. The appview could be down, but I also can't access blacksky through the web. So hmm, what went down? And how would I know? And how would I prevent that? It seems like the "feed error" message can't be trusted because it looks like it mixes together errors that should happen in different places, and I have to intuit what an outage means using a variety of indirect observations, since bluesky's status page isn't showing anything. Problem is intermittent, going down and coming back.
These are genuine questions, I want to know what is still a global failure mode for the network, I would have figured an independent PDS and independent AppView would be independent enough that transient failures of the relay might pass by, but I suppose not?