I always assume there is someone working to fix things

After being a member of SDF for over 2 years, I always assume there isn’t.

Have you asked the SDF community if there is anything you can do to contribute to better uptimes?

No, for three reasons:

• I paid for SDF. That’s more than I can say for most services I use that are orders of magnitude more reliable. In fairness, I paid once, expecting to pay every year, because I like to pay for what I use. But I never paid again because the service is utter shit. Sorry to be rude, but that’s just the plain reality.

• I tried to contact someine in the SDF shell chat thingy and it’s always been crickets. I’ve given up on that.

• What the hell can I do to “contribute to better uptimes” aside from running a server at home on behalf of SDF?

Putting out there that if you’re waiting for the next outage of a few days to move servers, […]

I’m not waiting. I’m currently evaluating Piefed with a view to moving my communities over there if it proves good and reliable. As for my personal account, I already have this one on Sipuli as a backup (now my main account) and I’ve created another one in piefed.social and imported my settings there too.

I’m done with SDF. The next - and last - time I post from my SDF account is to lock my communities and redirect subscribers to their new home.