♲ @matrix@mastodon.matrix.org: If you weren't able to join us live for Open Tech Will Save Us #2, remember you can still watch the stream recording - catch up with Mike Hoye, Eugen from Mastodon and a cracking Dendrite demo (it's working well!) #matrix #otwsuyoutu.be/O3YP1TU-L_8?t=75
In January we started moving to a new #Kubernetes based setup. During or immediately after #FOSDEM we managed to move over almost all of our services from the old #Rancher 1.x based setup. Two services remained - #Matrix, #Riot and the association homepage.
Today 17th March approx 11am UTC the Matrix server, our #Riot and the homepage went offline due to the LetsEncrypt certificate expiring. Normally this certificate would have auto-renewed, but this did not any more work with our old Rancher.
Unfortunately due to mail delivery failures which we're still looking into, we didn't get LetsEncrypt warnings about the certificate expiring or the Uptimerobot alerts when the services became unavailable. Naturally alertmanager monitoring into our admin room went through the Matrix server, so we didn't receive those either.
The admin team was however alerted about the failure very soon after the cert expired but unfortunately key admins that had experience with the old setup we're tied up at work. When a new certificate was finally received from LetsEncrypt, Rancher decided to push one more stick into the wheels by refusing to restore the load balancer to a working condition.
After flaky networking for a few hours while the admins juggled work, commute and fighting load balancers, reliable service was finally restored to the Matrix and Riot instances at approx 6:45pm UTC. It should hopefully be catching up and soon be back to normal.
Migration of the Matrix parts will be done asap during the next week or so to the new Kubernetes setup. This should avoid things falling apart due to legacy stuff that only a few people in the team knew how it works.
Sorry for the inconvenience for any users on the #Feneas Matrix server 🤗
We've managed to now recover our bridge with #Freenode `#feneas` channel from our main chat room `#feneas:feneas.org` on #Matrix side, thanks for the @Matrix.org bridging crew for help 🤗
La mensajería instantánea es una herramienta cotidiana muy práctica. Sin embargo, hoy día está monopolizada por Whatsapp y Messenger, ambas propiedad de Facebook. Esto significa un creciente control sobre la comunicación de la gente, que, además, nos somete a un sistema de vigilancia masiva. ¿Te preguntas si hay alternativas? Sí, muchas. En este taller exploraremos algunas opciones sencillas y con enfoque ético: descentralizadas, basadas en código libre, transparentes… Comparte esta invitación con quien quieras. Si traes a tus familiares o amigxs o a tu colectivo, les será más fácil empezar a usar estas herramientas, al hacerlo juntxs.
¿Qué necesitas? Tu dispositivo (celular, compu, tableta...). ¿Cuándo? Sábado 17 de agosto, de 10:00 a 13:00 aprox. ¿Dónde? MediaLab, CIESPAL (Diego de Almagro y Andrade Marín). Entrada libre. Para participar, escribe a cde@disroot.org.
Interested in following a curated list of posts about #federated web projects on #Matrix or #Freenode? We've been collecting feeds of various projects in our social news room. Feel free to check it out and suggest new feeds!
As per request from a community member, we've bridged our main chat room (`#feneas:feneas.org on #Matrix and `#feneas` on #Freenode) over to #Telegram. You'll find it at https://t.me/feneas
Before deciding to do this, we had a [vote](matrix.to/#/!XTcFGXYoSwwJPindt…) which passed 3 in favour, 1 against. There was enthusiastic discussion about this. Some people had concerns over promoting centralized services, however many people saw the benefits of enabling people on the centralized services to get involved on the #federated web via the tools they currently use.
We believe bridging is a good way to provide community tools like chat rooms, ensuring people can participate using the the tools they have at their disposal. For anyone looking for a chat tool, we do recommend using the #FOSS and #decentralized options out there, for example Matrix, #IRC or #XMPP - to name a few. We hope to convert some of the people on the Telegram side of the chat room to do so in the future :)
Our chat room currently has a few hundred people from all around the federated web. Looking forward to seeing you there too!