Thank you again @TheKinrar for Mastodon.xyz! You fixed that cert issue right quick. ๐
Sysadmin work tends to be invisible and thankless - until something breaks.
Having been in their shoes most of my career, I try to resist the natural urge to get annoyed and complain when things break. Especially if it's rare and they get fixed quickly.
Don't judge work only by errors and mistakes - it's more fair to consider how well (or poorly) problems are handled.
Also consider: in Mastodon-land, often the admin work is a hobby. If it hobbies stop being fun, people find other hobbies...
Pro-tip: Pick a Mastodon host where the admin is in the same time zone as you. (Modulo your sleep schedule.)
This increases the odds downtime will mostly occur while you sleep. ๐
I made an account on mastodon.social when I didn't now what Mastodon was all about
Now, if account migration was available, I would move my account on some new instances.
I'd stay a few months on queer.party, a few months on functional.cafe and then I'd explore a few more
Like I did with Ubuntu, Suse and Fedora
But until account migration is not available, I won't
I donate to mastodon.social through liberapay, though !
@catonano Yes, absolutely. Account migration really is a prerequisite for "choose an instance you like."
Until migration is easy and seamless, whenever the only solution to a problem is "choose a better instance", what people are really saying is "this problem has no good solution."
That includes my toot! I just thought the time zone thing was a funny realization.
@HerraBRE Unfortunately there are very few instances in South-East Asia. Also, I'm very happy with @mdallastella as an instance admin. :-)
@HerraBRE That's a good insight, but I"m staying in .de with scroom :-)