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The admin of the third largest Mastodon instance (16k monthly active users) is asking for help to pay rent in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We have done before, but don't do that often, so we don't bother users too much. But we might do again soon, and maybe do a monthly post on the mastodons/sharkeys etc

The admin of the third largest Mastodon instance (16k monthly active users) is asking for help to pay rent in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Sending e-mail to info at lemmy dot world would be the best option. The team will pick that up.

(By the way: 2 EUR per year would be enough if every active user would donate that but they don't)

The admin of the third largest Mastodon instance (16k monthly active users) is asking for help to pay rent in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (7 children)

For lemmy.world / mastodon.world including some of the smaller instances we host, it's like 0,06 euro per active user per month. If every active user would pay 2 Euro per year that would be enough to cover hosting costs. If every active user would pay 1 euro per month, I could quit my dayjob and focus on the Fediverse fulltime.

(Sidenote: Stux and I created the non-profit Fedihosting Foundation which owns lemmy.world .. but finances are still separate for his and my instances)

Every Country That Has Their Own Lemmy Instance in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

The server is in Finland, actually. I am in The Netherlands, so is the non-profit foundation owning LW.

Friendica Wiki in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I'll try to install the BookFace UI on friendica.world. Also I've started a Friendica manual at https://help.friendica.onl but it needs to get content.

I created a Sharkey instance... in c/[email protected]
Post your bandwidth usage in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 48 points 3 months ago

This is for the Lemmy.World server (just the physical box, not the related VMs). Around 12TB last month.

Does Lemmy.World provide free specs on their hosting hardware? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

We run the database and backend on a ax161 on Hetzner. The media is in Wasabi. The alt uis run on a cloud vps.

Tenacious iPhone user finally unlocks phone locked for almost a decade in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ooh an iPhone that's been locked for 50 years, I wonder what iPhones looked like in 1974!

I haven't read this. But I know you can unlock your iPhone using your icloud account.

(Still, happy I switched to android this year)

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Happy Cake Day, Lemmy.World! (lemmy.world)
 

Woo-hoo today's my cake-day on Lemmy.world.. actually I'm the first here but many will follow the next days. Happy cake day to you all!

Why You Should Self-Host Everything in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (6 children)

I do host some stuff myself 😉 but there's one thing to keep in mind.

Don't self host stuff that your family still needs after you're gone. Unless they are self host nerds like you. I stopped self hosting our mail and docs for example.

Would you agree?

Hosting a writefreely.org instance in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I did register writefreely.world planning to host that one day, but I need some more selfhosting nerds to help out running all these instances :-) The foundation is now already running a few dozen Fedi instances :-D

"Best" Mac browser: Your view in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I like Vivaldi, which is Chromium based. I also like Safari for the speed. Difficult to choose between the two. The feature that Vivaldi has and Safari hasn't, which I'm missing in Safari, is tab auto-refresh.

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I created a Sharkey instance... (sharkey.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
2 comments fedilink
 

Next to Mastodon.world and Lemmy.world I am also running Calckey.world. This was running Calckey, a Misskey fork. That was re-branded to FireFish (that's the danger of running sites with the software name in the URL... :-) ).

Unfortunately due to circumstances the FireFish software will no longer be maintained. Therefore I was looking for another Misskey fork that could replace it, and I found Sharkey. This looks really nice.

So being who I am, I registered https://sharkey.world and installed it. It still needs some configuring and branding, but it works and you can use it! (As you will see it currently uses the Calckey.world branding)

I will write a brief how-to on migrating from Calckey to Sharkey and hope the calckey.world users will migrate.

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[Fixed] Comments temporarily broken, being worked on (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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There was another attack going on (as you might have noticed). We're working on a fix. In the meantime, we've blocked the listing of comments, so we at least aren't down, but it did break comments.

Hope to have a fix in the next hour. Stay tuned!

Update OK we've implemented a fix, again many thanks to @[email protected] for his assistance. This will prevent the outages we've seen last couple of days. Let's see what they will come up with next...

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Lemmy.world stickers! (www.etsy.com)
 

A few days ago I saw some cool JoinLemmy stickers created by @[email protected] . I asked her if she could also create lemmy.world stickers, and she did!

You can see and order them here, also check the other cool stickers in her shop.

Thanks for creating them!

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Outage today (2023-07-31) from 02:00 UTC - 05:45 UTC (lemmy.world)
 

Lemmy.world has been down between 02:00 UTC and 05:45 UTC. This was caused by the database spiking to 100% cpu (all 32 cores/64 threads!) due to inefficient queries been fired to the db very often.

I’ve collected the logs and we’ll be checking how to prevent this. (And what caused this)

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[Done] Lemmy world was upgraded to 0.18.3 today (2023-07-30) (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
0 comments fedilink
 

Update The upgrade was done, DB migrations took around 5 minutes. We'll keep an eye out for (new) issues but for now it seems to be OK.

Original message We will upgrade lemmy.world to 0.18.3 today at 20:00 UTC+2 (Check what this isn in your timezone). Expect the site to be down for a few minutes. ""Edit"" I was warned it could be more than a few minutes. The database update might even take 30 minutes or longer.

Release notes for 0.18.3 can be found here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/main/RELEASES.md

(This is unrelated to the downtimes we experienced lately, those are caused by attacks that we're still looking into mitigating. Sorry for those)

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Lemmy.world update: Downtime today / Cloudflare (lemmy.world)
 

Today, like the past few days, we have had some downtime. Apparently some script kids are enjoying themselves by targeting our server (and others). Sorry for the inconvenience.

Most of these 'attacks' are targeted at the database, but some are more ddos-like and can be mitigated by using a CDN. Some other Lemmy servers are using Cloudflare, so we know that works. Therefore we have chosen Cloudflare as CDN / DDOS protection platform for now. We will look into other options, but we needed something to be implemented asap.

For the other attacks, we are using them to investigate and implement measures like rate limiting etc.

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As requested: https://old.lemmy.world (MLMYM) (old.lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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As requested by some users: 'old' style now accessible via https://old.lemmy.world

Code can be found here: https://github.com/rystaf/mlmym , created by Ryan (Is he here?) (Yes he appears to be! @[email protected] ! Thanks for this awesome front-end!)

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Updated Voyager to 0.23.1 on m.lemmy.world (m.lemmy.world)
 

Thanks to @[email protected] for another release with awesome enhancements, see release notes here: https://lemmy.world/post/1558795

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The .world blog: June overview (blog.mastodon.world)
 

I blogged about what happened in June, and the financial overview.

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I think I fixed the thumbnails issue :-) (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
0 comments fedilink
 

It's always the small things you overlook...

The docker-compose.yml I copied from somewhere when setting up lemmy.world apparently was missing the external network for the pictrs container.. So pictrs was working, as long as it got the images via Lemmy. Getting the images via URL didn't work...

Looks like it's working now. Looks a whole lot better with all the images :-)

Edit For existing posts: Edit the post, then Save. (No need to change anything). This also fetches the image.

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Lemmy.world updated to 0.18.2 (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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(Duplicate post :-) see https://lemmy.world/post/1375042)

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