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Introducing lestat.org - Lemmy instance status monitor for all popular instances (lemdit.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/fediverse
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cross-posted from: https://lemdit.com/post/408034

I like keeping across what is happening with other Lemmy instances so lestat.org was born out of this curiosity.

URL: https://lestat.org

It's similar to lemmy-status.org but with a few notable differences:

Criteria for adding instances to Lestat

I will add any instance to Lestat based on these prerequisites:

  • The instance is listed on join-lemmy.org
  • The instance doesn't host anything illegal in New Zealand

Free services for admins

If you are an instance admin, I can set you up with the following:

  • Automatic e-mail notifications when the status of your instance changes (e.g. it goes up or down).
  • An uptime badge for your instance in this style:

Send me a message if you'd like any of the above.

I hope you find Lestat useful!

Edit: Added clickable URL and expanded on free admin services to include badges.

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[–] poplargrove 78 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That icon goes way too hard for an uptime tracker.

[–] greendakota99 4 points 1 year ago

#iconic

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

Needs search by instance name, filter by status

[–] Feirdro 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hey, what’s the url?

[–] C3D 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://lestat.org/ the url was in the title btw

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The title's not clickable

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And it's really hard to type it out aye.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

On a phone, yes it's a bit annoying. Enough for me to read comments for a clockwork link

[–] decadentrebel 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just curious, but why did you call it Lestat?

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's just a play on words: Le(mmy) + Stat(us) or Le Stat(us)

I think it's short and easy to remember, the fact that it's also the name of a famous vampire is just a bonus.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I think it’s a great name and domain

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Here is another one for you - Luptime!

Yeah it's bad, I know. :)

[–] decadentrebel 3 points 1 year ago

That's ingenious and I'm slow for not catching on that, haha.

[–] Cyanogenmon 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Holy shit the name is perfect.

Can I beg to become a Lem-pire once I use the site? Instructions not clear.

[–] havocpants 2 points 1 year ago

It really is perfect, and how on earth was that domain not taken?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's very nice, and thanks for including all instances. We are supposed to be a network of Lemmy instances working together. This site highlights that idea so thank you.

If I could offer an improvement idea, it would be to first show instances that are down in it's own group, and then every other instance exactly as it's done now, in alphabetical order.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Thanks for your feedback. I like your idea, I'll have a look into what I can do to make it happen.

[–] madcaesar 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Clickable link nowhere to be found in the post body...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've updated the post to include clickable URLs. Lesson learnt that I shouldn't rely on clients to treat domain names as links.

[–] madcaesar 1 points 1 year ago

Excellent!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I do love Uptime Kuma - using it for my own instance services at status.leminal.space

Are you checking with a simple ping, https request?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Https HEAD requests - I find it yields accurate results for Lemmy and it's extremely light on bandwidth.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I pronounce it in a French way, like Le`stat.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

No lemmy.ml ?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Of all the ones to miss!

Thanks for pointing it out, I've added it now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

~~how tf is it missing the #2 lemmy instance but somehow has every other one? also, so search, so sort…~~

~~not to mention, there’s no link to the site here~~

edit: these are fixed!

good start!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey thanks for your feedback. I've made them all URLs now.

Search and sort are tricky as it's not something Uptime Kuma status pages can do, I'll look into what can be done there.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

cool, thanks!

I’d offer some suggestions re: adding search and sort, but I’m not familiar with the api (and I’m about to go to bed), but best of luck!

[–] C3D 2 points 1 year ago

It's there. It's just buried in the middle of the page since instances are sorted alphabetically

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Cool service! Is the code open source?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Absolutely!

Uptime Kuma Github: https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma

Note that I am not the creator of Uptime Kuma, https://github.com/louislam gets all the credit there.

[–] poplargrove 2 points 1 year ago

Yes, the software it uses is mentioned in the post.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you for this!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Huh, this just made me realize that my instance isn't listed on join-lemmy anymore, that's odd (not popular enough I suppose). I guess that explains why I haven't had any registration requests in a while...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think you're one "active user" short of being back on there:

I believe you need 5 to be listed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah, I see - do you know if that was changed at some point? I know when I originally setup my instance it was listed there, and it was just me on it. Everyone else came from join-lemmy as far as I know...

Well, regardless I've been meaning to try to get some personal friends aboard anyways 😅

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes it was changed some time ago: https://github.com/LemmyNet/joinlemmy-site/pull/170

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Somehow I missed that, thanks for the link!

[–] mstrk 2 points 1 year ago

Awesome logo. It reminds me of Vinnie, biker mice from mars.

[–] fubo 1 points 1 year ago

🧛🐭📈🪨🔛

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Cloudflared services like ani.social are getting a “100%” available stat. That site may be up but it’s unavailable (denying availability) to something like ~1-3% of the population 100% of the time. So in principle it should never be able to achieve the 100% availability stat.

I understand it would be quite difficult to calculate an availability figure that accounts for access restrictions to marginalized groups, because apart from Cloudflare you would not have a practical way of knowing how firewalls are configured. But one thing you could (and should) do is mark the known walled gardens in some way. E.g. put a “🌩” next to Cloudflare sites and warn people that they are not open access sites.

The lestat.org availability listing is like a competition that actually gives a perception advantage to services that exclude people, thus rewarding them for compromising availability. I would also subtract off ~2% for all CF sites as a general rule simply because you know it’s not 100% available to everyone. They do not deserve that 100% trophy, nor is it accurate.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey, thanks for your feedback. I like your idea of labeling Cloudflared services, reporting is indeed a bit tricky for those especially if they use "Always online" to serve cached copies while the instance is down. I have some ideas on how to combat that, but labeling them also makes sense.

I can add tags against services - I have done this for ani.social as a proof of concept, I think it works but I welcome feedback. Sorting through the entire list is a bit daunting and will take me a while, but I'll get there.

Manually adjusting availability is a can of worms that I don't want to open, I'd rather we try to find other ways to level the playing field.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think this project has some tools that might automate that:

https://0xacab.org/dCF/deCloudflare

They ID and track every website that joins #Cloudflare. It’s a huge effort but those guys are on top of it. A script could check the list of domains against their list. There is also this service (from the same devs) which does some checks:

https://karma.crimeflare.eu.org:1984/api/is/cloudflare/html/

but caveat: if a non-CF domain (e.g. example.tld) has a CF host (e.g. somehost.example.tld), that tool will return YES for the whole domain.

Manually adjusting availability is a can of worms that I don’t want to open

I would suggest not bothering with any complex math, and simply do the calculation as you normally do but then if a site is Cloudflare cap whatever the calculated figure is to 98%. Probably most (if not all) CF sites would be 100% anyway, so they would just be reduced by 2%. Though it would need to be explained somewhere -- the beauty of which would be to help inform people that the CF walled garden is excluding people. Cloudflare’s harm perpetuates to a large extent because people are unaware that it’s an exclusive walled garden that marginalizes people.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That project is a great find, thanks! A real time saver, I should have these marked up shortly.

I'll do some more thinking on how we represent Cloudflare instances in general, I think for the time being I may just include a short note for them as people will wonder why they're marked anyway.

Edit: This is now done, all Cloudflare instances marked and an explanation added.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Glad to see they are tagged. It could evolve more but the tags are the most important thing.