Olá fedinauta! Bem vinda/e/o ao fediverso!
"The fediverse is a jungle of overloaded, fallen, slow servers..."
By @The Real Grunfink here: comam.es/snac/grunfink/p/17159…
The Real Grunfink (@grunfink@comam.es)
Hello. I don't think it would be impossible, but I think the experience will be severely lacking. The start and stop times of #snac are fast, but from the top of my head, these things could prove problematic: - The maximum number of simultaneous pro…comam.es
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Stephan Lichtenauer | נח סתו
in reply to Sergio F. Lima • • •Regarding "And most important, the problem of retries. The fediverse is a jungle of overloaded, fallen, slow servers. Activity messages should be stored somewhere to be retried later, probably after a timer. This is much harder to manage from a CGI, that only runs on demand."
Is there a requirement in the ActivityPub specification regarding retries? E.g. for how long should a server try to deliver messages to instances that time out?
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The Real Grunfink
in reply to Stephan Lichtenauer | נח סתו • • •No. Every implementation does retries in its own way. Specifically, #snac has some knobs to tune these retries, like a maximum number and different timeouts.
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