It was just a file permissions issue on my end after switching to Ansible, ran chmod -R a=rwx where pictrs was located. (This probably won't help with db0.)

We started running an Uptime Kuma instance on M4D's servers. I'll post any status notices there.

See my above comment about this. (Also what instances even allow piracy? And which ones aren't already blocked by everyone else, or would be trustworthy enough to not ban FMHY?)

Ah, I thought you were suggesting another platform like Lemmy and Divolt. For announcements I'm thinking of adding a simple status page hosted on GH pages or on the server this is running on (but I'm waiting on the other staff members for their thoughts.) For wiki updates, Reddit still exists.

Firefish seems to be more broken than Lemmy sadly

after switching to ansible, pictrs (the image backend) didn't have proper perms to access its own folder (for whatever reason.) this is now fixed.

It's possibly one of two things:

1. You're trying to upload a file larger than allowed (1MB)
2. The image service is fucking broken again

If it's the latter then I'm not dealing with that cause holy fucking shit I nearly blew my brains out while trying to troubleshoot the downtime... go upload on imgbb or somewhere else if that's the case

Haven't heard of this one before. Added :)

My bad, I forgot mlmym only has single instance mode. If I could, I'd just set fmhy to be the default instance. Updated OP

^^^

If you're anti-social you can also beg on anna archive's reddit lol

we're not joever with lemmy

thank you :)