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We had an outage going from 5:35PM to 4:29AM. (times in pacific)

It calmed down by itself but service was quite slow. A proper fix was done at 8AM. At 9am a configuration update was pushed to prevent the scaling issue.

Timeline:

• 5:35pm: outage starts, service was completely unavailable
• 4:29am: traffic went down enough to allow some automatic recovery.
• 7:50am: Start investigation
• 8:04am: Just did a quick look and one of the nodes in the cluster was in a bad state. Orchestrator didn't catch it and kept it in rotation. Just took it down and got it back in shape. So hopefully y'all see an improvement now.
• 8:52am: Just found a big issue with docker setup for /kbin. The guide for it is not really tested, so things aren't fully cover. But I found another guide for bare-metal (when running on a server) that has an important step for letting /kbin handle a lot more processes. Implementing this right now. So that should make a huge difference.
• 9:21am: Alrigthy, pushed some config changes that should improve Artemis.camp performance. Will monitor latency over the next day to measure improvements.
• 11:04am: Things seem to be stabler. Tho, will look at the end of the day 🙂

Hello Campers! As the public beta of Artemis rolls out, we welcome both closed and open beta testers to the official Artemis instance!

Campground Safeguarding

In preparation for this, we have made an extensive blocklist in the preceding days to make the experience on Artemis Camp safer and more comfortable. The domains of the blocked instances were compiled from multiple sources, including private blocklists used with permission as references and posts with the #fediblock tag. Due to this and advice from people associated with some of these sources, Artemis Camp will not be publishing our instance blocklist publicly. We were made aware of bad-faith actors that scrape public blocklists, in order to evade blocks and target instances that prevent abuse.

If you think that there is an instance that Artemis Camp is not federating with, it may be due to either no one having subscribed to a magazine from it or it is on the Artemis Camp blocklist (excluding technical issues). Please message us on Discord or Matrix to investigate any instance that isn't federated or have any concerns about. Additionally if we receive reports from other instances about anyone on Artemis Camp, we will look into them and take any appropriate actions.

We will continue to be on the lookout for any suspicious activiity both on- and off-instance. This will range from moderating on a per-user basis to instance defederation, with a bunch of other potential tools in between. An example of this is the defederation of a specific magazine from another instance, since it was affected by a spam wave. Complete defederation will only be a last resort, when an instance as a whole is found to be unsuitable for further interactions with.

For admins of other Fediverse instances, please do reach out to us (@hariette, @w8l, and @Lilkev) regarding any concerns and feedback. We want to work with you to support the Fediverse!

A Warm Place

On a lighter topic, /m/campfire is now open! This is a magazine intended for other Campers to chill out in with each other. Talk shop, ask questions, or share something that other people should see. It can also be a place for newcomers to get comfortable with using kbin, Artemis, and with being here.

Looking forward to you all hanging out here in this corner of the Fediverse!

Due to an ongoing porn spam wave on /m/[email protected], it has been temporarily defederated until it has passed. To be clear, only that magazine has been defederated and the main kbin instance (kbin.social) has not been defederated entirely.