so I am hopefully back online.

OR... or, I can use Phanpy's "catch-up" thingy and go back by a few hours, then follow lots of accounts that are boosted by other people I follow, so "he/she/they" connects me connects you, etc and so forth.

So sometimes I just go on a "following spree", grab about 50 new accounts I've never followed before and wait for them to boost things in a month or two, then add 50 more, and so on and so on.

That gets me by. The benefits of snac2 being lower on resource usage means that good always outweighs the limitations for my usecase.

There is a person I've been helping for a while who runs two instances, one #GoToSocial and one #snac.

Yesterday, they suffered severe file system corruption on their device, and I lent them a hand with the recovery. For GoToSocial, they restored the DB from the previous backup and got it running again. For snac, although a few files were lost, no action was necessary... it just started back up and did what it had to do, bringing the instance back to full operation.

This goes to show that when software is well-designed and intentionally kept simple, it's also easier to get back up and running when something goes wrong. In this case, snac's "files-only" approach demonstrated excellent resilience.

Thanks, @grunfink !

#snac2 #snac #ThankYouTuesday #Efficiency #IT #SysAdmin #OwnYourData