When you say, "if 100 instances all requested translations of the same post...", are you implying that your Libretranslate server can be used by other PieFed instances?
Or does each instance that wants to provide a translation service need to spin up their own Libretranslate server? And if each must self-host it, must it be Libretranslate?
Are you using noscript? If you are, then things won't render properly if you don't allow the JavaScript. I'm asking because it seems you have the noscript symbol showing in the screen shot and I've seen the same thing a hundred times when I haven't whitelisted a lemmy, PieFed, mastodon, etc. JavaScript.
I run one of the Piefed servers (https://feddit.online/). I used a translator to read your post. This is an excellent post. You've covered all the points. Thank you for posting this and helping others become aware.
My wife is Japanese, and she helped translate a few items I saw missing from the Japanese text on Piefed. I just posted them to the Matrix Piefed General topic. Maybe you can check it.
Honestly, I am also ashamed to say I'm an American these days. I still can't believe how the election turned out. I am so distressed.
There are two reasons I opened feddit.online, and the other 9 public decentralized instances.
First, I want to do my part to promote publicly owned social media. I believe centralized, billionaire-controlled social media is messing up people's heads. Turning them into stupid zombies. They caused the political problems we face because they want more power and money. Nothing else.
Second is to get the technical experience. Running these websites has taught me a lot. And some day I'd like to focus this knowledge into helping Open-Source projects.
My other open servers are: Mastodon, Friendica, Peertube, Pixelfed, Matrix, XMPP/Jabber, Phanpy, Bluesky PDS, and Mobilizon. I also have 3 private servers (WordPress, NextCloud, and an Email server).
You're welcome to join. Everyone is. The light is on for you!
Hi. I assume you mean feddit.online, the Piefed instance in North America? feddit.online is my server.
Nope, no blog.
piefed.social may be a couple of days ahead of feddit.online for software changes. I generally redeploy the Piefed code every 2 days. The amount of development is incredible and so code changes are constant. The instance would fall behind swiftly if I didn't deploy several times a week.
The topics are entirely different between feddit.online and piefed.social as they are assigned by the Admin for each community and no two Admins will ever create the same topic structure. I have no idea if one did a better job than the other.
piefed.social is the mother ship. Feddit.online tries hard to match the mother ship in terms of performance and features.
As for infrastructure differences, I don't know the differences because I don't know the piefed.social infrastructure. Feddit.online is split between two servers running on Digital Ocean.
-- The application itself runs on a 4GB 2 vCPU general purpose server.
-- The PostgreSQL database is on a separate 4GB 2 vCPU database-optimized server
I use feddit.online all the time and I like how it runs.
Let me know if there's any other information you'd like about it.
Forcing another event through the WAF. Trying to understand what Cloudflare is doing. It was apparently blocking requests but I can't see them in the log.
When you say, "if 100 instances all requested translations of the same post...", are you implying that your Libretranslate server can be used by other PieFed instances?
Or does each instance that wants to provide a translation service need to spin up their own Libretranslate server? And if each must self-host it, must it be Libretranslate?
But different PieFed instances have different registration rules.
Are you using noscript? If you are, then things won't render properly if you don't allow the JavaScript. I'm asking because it seems you have the noscript symbol showing in the screen shot and I've seen the same thing a hundred times when I haven't whitelisted a lemmy, PieFed, mastodon, etc. JavaScript.
I love having the Ukrainian flag underneath the logo! Nice touch.
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I run one of the Piefed servers (https://feddit.online/). I used a translator to read your post. This is an excellent post. You've covered all the points. Thank you for posting this and helping others become aware.
My wife is Japanese, and she helped translate a few items I saw missing from the Japanese text on Piefed. I just posted them to the Matrix Piefed General topic. Maybe you can check it.
Thank you for your support and help.
Hard to tell where the bed and the dog start and end! She's adorable!
Yes, the mother ship is much more active than any other Piefed instance.
Honestly, I am also ashamed to say I'm an American these days. I still can't believe how the election turned out. I am so distressed.
There are two reasons I opened feddit.online, and the other 9 public decentralized instances.
First, I want to do my part to promote publicly owned social media. I believe centralized, billionaire-controlled social media is messing up people's heads. Turning them into stupid zombies. They caused the political problems we face because they want more power and money. Nothing else.
Second is to get the technical experience. Running these websites has taught me a lot. And some day I'd like to focus this knowledge into helping Open-Source projects.
My other open servers are: Mastodon, Friendica, Peertube, Pixelfed, Matrix, XMPP/Jabber, Phanpy, Bluesky PDS, and Mobilizon. I also have 3 private servers (WordPress, NextCloud, and an Email server).
You're welcome to join. Everyone is. The light is on for you!
Hi. I assume you mean feddit.online, the Piefed instance in North America? feddit.online is my server.
Nope, no blog.
piefed.social may be a couple of days ahead of feddit.online for software changes. I generally redeploy the Piefed code every 2 days. The amount of development is incredible and so code changes are constant. The instance would fall behind swiftly if I didn't deploy several times a week.
The topics are entirely different between feddit.online and piefed.social as they are assigned by the Admin for each community and no two Admins will ever create the same topic structure. I have no idea if one did a better job than the other.
piefed.social is the mother ship. Feddit.online tries hard to match the mother ship in terms of performance and features.
As for infrastructure differences, I don't know the differences because I don't know the piefed.social infrastructure. Feddit.online is split between two servers running on Digital Ocean. -- The application itself runs on a 4GB 2 vCPU general purpose server. -- The PostgreSQL database is on a separate 4GB 2 vCPU database-optimized server
I use feddit.online all the time and I like how it runs.
Let me know if there's any other information you'd like about it.
Forcing another event through the WAF. Trying to understand what Cloudflare is doing. It was apparently blocking requests but I can't see them in the log.
Cloudflare is driving met nuts. First 3 replies didn't get back. Had to skip more checks. 4th reply got back. For good measure, trying a 5th reply
4th reply
3rd reply
Second comment for testing purposes.
It worked!! Thank you Rimu for taking the time to trace down the problem!