So after we’ve extended the virtual cloud server twice, we’re at the max for the current configuration. And with this crazy growth (almost 12k users!!) even now the server is more and more reaching capacity.
Therefore I decided to order a dedicated server. Same one as used for mastodon.world.
So the bad news… we will need some downtime. Hopefully, not too much. I will prepare the new server, copy (rsync) stuff over, stop Lemmy, do last rsync and change the DNS. If all goes well it would take maybe 10 minutes downtime, 30 at most. (With mastodon.world it took 20 minutes, mainly because of a typo :-) )
For those who would like to donate, to cover server costs, you can do so at our OpenCollective or Patreon
Thanks!
Update The server was migrated. It took around 4 minutes downtime. For those who asked, it now uses a dedicated server with a AMD EPYC 7502P 32 Cores “Rome” CPU and 128GB RAM. Should be enough for now.
I will be tuning the database a bit, so that should give some extra seconds of downtime, but just refresh and it’s back. After that I’ll investigate further to the cause of the slow posting. Thanks @[email protected] for assisting with that.
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So, I just want to make sure I understand this as I am a new user from reddit. Instances are server based and cost money. Instances are Lemmy.World, Beebaw, Lemmy.Film, etc etc. These are all seperate hosted instances. Correct?
And donations would help pay for the server, ie lemmy.world?
“Lemmy instances” are analogous to “email servers”: your account is hosted on one of them, but you can communicate with people on other ones, because the servers know how to talk to each other.
Expanding the capacity of the Lemmy service will involve both (1) more instances, and (2) more resources for existing instances.
Yes, lemmy.world, lemmy.film, beebaw and etc are other instances of Lemmy and users from other instances can interact with other instances.
And yes donations help the server afloat.
Pretty cool stuff.
Awesome, thank you for this information. I hope you have a great week!
That is correct. I’ve signed up for monthly donations to help cover costs (as well as added tip to help the admins themselves).
I’m a newbie from Reddit too, but your understanding matches mine.
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Thank you very much! 🥳
Just joined. Thank you so much for your effort!
Does it work on water now that it has MORE POWA?
What happens if millions of users migrate over?
Thank you for doing that! We appreciate having a place to come.
King Ruud is good to us
What’s the operating cost? Thank you, for running this server! :)
The cheapest configuration for that server on Hetzner is about €150 per month.
Honestly cheaper than I would have expected. However, still a nice chunk of money to shell out for a community, and for that, I commend.
Tree fiddy
Damn lock ness monster
I gave him a dollar
You what, woman?!
Wow that was fast.
I will add, joking aside, that Ruud is doing a bloody good job (sorry, I don’t know yet how to tag a user).
Like this: @[email protected] parent thinks you’re doing a bloody good job! (Me too!)
Thanks @[email protected] and @[email protected] !
@[email protected] type the @ symbol and first few letters. a drop down menu should appear. it might delay by a few seconds.
Thanks!
You are welcome!
Thanks @BackOnMyBS
Wondering if Jerboa had this feature or it auto links…
Unexpectedoffice
this is very Reddit-y of you
Redditors made such memes a thing, we’re taking them with us where we go.
Reddit moment-ception.
We did it, lemmy.world!
Mom, get the camera!
Didn’t realise you could respond with images on lemmy. Smoother jokes than r***it…
Well i just thought I’d give it a try and it worked. :)
When a volunteer can run a server better then a big tech company
unsurprising pikachu face
To be fair the volunteer isn’t trying to squeeze value out of the users to inflate his IPO.
Won’t somebody think about the corporations!
Like many others, I came from Reddit and was initially hesitant to try it out, but I love this place so much! It really feels like the “worse” parts of Reddit have been skimmed off, and that definitely shows with how nice people seem here! Thank you so much!
Found one russian troll already. Oh well…
Edit: lol, was not referring to OP, it was some world news post comment with chiese username that spread misinformation about russian war in ukraine. I just added my thoughts on the community.
what about that post made you think they were a russian troll?
I think they meant they’ve seen one Russian troll on Lemmy already, not that skidface is a Russian troll.
I … Have to assume so, anyway
Can confirm I am not a russian troll ;)
Lesson learned today: never take anything for granted—if there’s a chance to be massively misunderstood, it will eventually happen lol
you can easily block any user by click on the 🚫 sign under their comment, and never have to deal with their bs again
wow, that’s actually a really nice feature. I wonder how it works though, i guess their text just will be blacked out for me, or will the post and all answers to it be completely vanish?
They’re only invisible to you, it’s kind of like muting on Twitter more than blocking, as far as I understood. (I haven’t felt the need to do it yet!)
how nice people seem here
yes! I love the culture of this place so far
Truth is for me as someone who used Reddit for about the last 16 years, it very much feels like the early days of Reddit again.
Which is a very good thing, because that’s what I originally signed up for compared to a metric fuckton of karma farming spam bots.
I just hope it gains enough traction to be sustainable in the long run, especially considering that it’s relying on donations for funding, I believe?
undefined> metric fuckton of karma farming spam bots.
People are hard at work writing bots for lemmy so don’t worry, you’ll be able to enjoy your regular hogwash again really soon.
Personally I think lemmy should go as far out of its way as possible to make bots in any and all forms just about impossible.
Yeah, we can enjoy while it lasts, because with more users more questionable content will come
I’m not sure how its being done as far as the technical aspects but Ruud has done a great job as admin upgrading the servers to keep up and anticipating the flow of new users.
The same admin also has experience with a mastadon.world server that experienced lots of growth from Twitter users leaving over musk moves. So essentially we have a good admin as far as I can tell and it’s not his first rodeo. Part of the reason I chose this server
I’m less concerned with the technical aspects and more curious about the long term.
Federated instances, such as lemmy.world, are operated by individuals; What happens if they decide to stop doing so without handing the server/data off to someone else? Do all of our accounts created here disappear? What do other users see if they click through my profile from a post on a different federated server? What happens to all of the content created on the server in question?
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It would be gone.
The federated design has got people already thinking about it though. It’s inevitable that some instances will just close without notice. So people are trying to figure out the best way to handle it, from archiving/mirroring to creating an export account feature.
It’s very early days and the projects will be developed quite extensively I imagine, this is a chance for some people like myself to contribute to new features and make a real impact on its future.
All hail ruud
/u/ruud(does that work?) Oh I have to make an actual link?Oh and fuck spez.
Guess not. Anyone know how to tag users?
Actually I don’t see… Do you just make a link?
You can manually make the link, or just start typing the “@ruud” part and you should get a drop-down with auto-complete options. Selecting one of the options will create the link for you.
It does have a small delay for the pop up to appear when typing.
Thank you for making this happen! Just signed up for a regular donation to help with costs 👍
do you plan to publish any of your scaling data? Some others might consider helping by running large instances and your learnings would be incredibly helpful.
Yes, when I get around to it I can create a post about it. And of course, feel free to ask.
