status.literature.cafe is now fully up and running, as well as two alternative front ends: old.literature.cafe and ph.literature.cafe, big thanks to Arthur for setting the alt front ends up!
For those who may or may not already know, I do run my own gotosocial instance as well for myself. I have a secondary status account there for lemmy server updates. If anything goes majorly wrong, I will use that to display messages as well as status.literature.cafe. The link to the system status page is sleepy.ink/@status. Feel free to subscribe thru Mastodon over there (and turn on notifications if you'd like!) for updates. Hope to never have to have use that account, but it's good have it on hand just in case.
You're also free to request to to follow my main account on sleepy.ink as well, that will be my personal fedi presence outside of lemmy when gotosocial supports account migration :P
Thank yall so much for your patience in this, and a big thanks to Arthur as well. Alongside the support of other instance admins. Lemmy.world admins have been extremely kind and helpful in helping us to problem solve things when need be as well.
I am very grateful that some kind folks from the lemmy.world team actually took the time out of their day to look into their database to check what data they had on this instance to try to help problem solve when we were first having issues federating. With the way activitypub works (the software that powers federation) there are keys that help power federation, and I was worried they had been mismatched. They weren't and were able to confirm when they checked. They didn't have to do that, but they did. One of their team members even patiently helped me try and troubleshoot the instance database to make sure something wasn't borked on our end as well.
Honestly coming here and starting my own instance and providing help for other instances and stuff has reignited my long lost love of computers and open source stuff. The passion for it is thankfully coming back.