Main - Lemmy.tf

Obviously with the closing of the Reddit API all of our favourite apps no longer work and you've ended up here looking for alternatives. Lemmy in general isn't Reddit, it's just similar and so it will take a minute to adapt, but as with all communities, it's you that makes it. Thanks especially for choosing Lemmy.tf as your instance. It's nice, speedy and well maintained. I look forward to seeing you all around. Have fun and if you have any questions, feel free to ask.

So Lemmy 0.18.0 dropped today and I immediately jumped on the bandwagon and updated. That was a mistake. I did the update during my lunch hour, quickly checked to make sure everything was up (it was, at the time) and came back a few hours later to everything imploding.

As far as I can tell, things broke after the DB migrations occurred. Pict-rs was suddenly dumping stack traces on any attempt to load an image, and then at some point the DB itself fell over and started spewing duplicate key errors in an endless loop.

I wound up fiddling with container versions in docker-compose.yml until finding a fix that restored the instance. We are downgraded back to the previous pict-rs release (0.3.1), while Lemmy and Lemmy-UI are both at 0.18.0. I'm still trying to figure out what exactly went wrong so I can submit a bug report on Github.

Going forward, I will plan updates more carefully. We will have planned maintenance windows posted at least a few days in advance, and I may look into migrating the instance to my Kubernetes cluster so we can do a rolling deployment, and leave the existing pods up until everything is passing checks. In the meantime, I'm spinning up a sandbox Lemmy instance and will use that to validate upgrades before hitting this instance.

If your feed is sorted by New or includes local content, you may notice a TON of new posts showing up on reddit_ communities here over the next few days- I am attempting to scrape as much content as I can from Reddit prior to the API pricing changes on July 1. All of this content will be limited to the reddit_* communities on this instance, if you don't wish to see this content you can simply block the communities as they appear.

If anyone has requests for a subreddit mirror, drop them in the comments and I'll try to get to your request sometime this week.

Edit: Halted since random other Lemmy instances managed to auto-index my new subs, I don't want to flood any feeds outside of lemmy.tf with this. Since I can't control other instances auto discovering my new communities, all Reddit cloning will now occur in a new, defederated instance.

All import activities are now taking place at https://defed.lemmy.tf/.

I don't want the username password, so I tried to change it to username. Now my name in the top right shows as username but my profile URL is still u/password. Can someone fix this?

Not much has changed today. Email verification is now disabled as we seem to have hit some bug where it just craps out until the Docker pods are restarted, I'm probably going to leave this disabled unless we start getting some large influx of spam users.

Default theme has also been changed to Darkly - Red which feels a bit more reminiscent of Reddit.

Some thoughts on image uploads

Image storage remains my primary concern for instance scalability. I am fairly limited on local storage since the server running this instance is all-NVMe, so if the /pictrs volume fills up too much, I will have to connect a cloud disk. Rather than totally disabling image uploads (which would also mean no avatars), I'm leaning towards setting something like a 400kb limit for all uploads. This is still TBD and may wind up being unnecessary if I can find some cheap option.

In preparation for a (hopeful) influx of users, I've bumped up the resources for the server a bit. We're now running on 4 cores/8gb ram and a 512tb disk on one of my OVH servers, and I may setup a larger disk for image storage if it winds up growing quickly. I've got plenty of resources to spare so there shouldn't be any scalability issues.

Email is also functional and now required for all new signups. No admin validation is required at the moment, but this could change if we start getting a flood of bots or something.

I am also looking for an admin or two to assist with the day-to-day management of this. Not sure what that will look like since I'm pretty new to Lemmy, so any help is appreciated.

Hi, I'm lemmywinks and I'm here to ditch reddit.