The DB migration at the end of this upgrade is significant, I was surprised how long it took when I upgraded my instance. Lots of room for things to go wrong considering the size of their DB.
In practice UPC will probably have some kind of fair use policy buried in its terms of service - your best bet is to go through those terms and see what you find. Fair use typically means they will start throttling you beyond a certain point. Most ISPs keep this reasonably vague (e.g. if your usage is in excess of what they deem to be reasonable, but no actual data amounts defined).
Not all ISPs have a fair use policy though, and typically you're better off on large ISPs where your usage doesn't really stand out that much.
I noticed that earlier too, I think someone made a blunder, they seem to be back now:
It's not a mass exodus. There was a sizeable influx of people from Reddit to Lemmy/kbin, sure, but that's measured in the (low) hundreds of thousands. Reddit has hundreds of millions of active users.
The reality is it's not even close to a mass exodus, not yet.
I have a Pine phone that I bought some time ago.
I tried a couple of distros/environments:
- Mobian
- Manjaro + Plasma Mobile
- Manjaro + Phosh
My experience: As a basic phone, it mostly works. Everything else is pretty bad. The Pine phone is underpowered, the environments are not very well optimised and polished, basic browsing was almost unusable, things didn't work properly, I had to use the CLI to get around UI issues (which is very sucky on a phone), etc. Battery life is bad, the camera is a joke (if it works), the screen has dead pixels after less than a year, it's not a great picture.
I fully support what Pine phone is trying to do, in fact I bought 2 of them and I don't regret buying them, but know what you are getting into. It's nowhere near ready for mass adoption. If you're a hobbyist then it's a fun toy to play around with.
Purism is more expensive/better hardware and uses the Phosh graphical shell. I haven't tried it but I imagine the experience is a lot more polished. You could probably use that as a daily driver if you were happy to give up most of the apps / quality of life stuff your spyware phone currently does for you.
If you're not, then going the degoogled route is probably your best choice.
lemmy.world was briefly back to normal and there had been a post saying that everything was fine now - it's not.
The site has just started doing the same thing again.
Please do not try using lemmy.world for the time being.
Great work! It really is amazing how much better Lemmy works now compared to only 2 weeks ago.
Yes, it just means that there are 9 people from vlemmy that have subbed to that community. This bit is a bit confusing, for example if nobody had subbed to it yet from vlemmy then it would show 0 subs.
Hey, you should be able to search for it, this may help you: https://lemdit.com/post/18035
I am able to find it from vlemmy:
Note that it won't show up in the search results if you are not logged in.
My 2 cents:
Simple, no domain required stuff:
- Pi-hole for self-hosted DNS: https://pi-hole.net/
- Navidrome for self-hosted music server: https://www.navidrome.org/ (best to pair this with an external portable HDD/SSD for music storage)
- Set up syncthing on it and use it for automatic file back-up: https://syncthing.net/ (that external HDD/SSD will come in handy again).
More advanced, should pair with a domain:
- Nextcloud for your own personal cloud/calendar/etc: https://nextcloud.com/ - it won't be blazing fast but it will work well, I had it running on a pi for a while.
- Simple web hosting - the pi is great for hosting low traffic stuff like blogs etc.
Defederation is simultaneously very useful and very dangerous.
Large instances have the power to kill smaller ones by defederating them, since they control an overwhelming share of Fediverse content. That is a lot of power in the hands of a small group of people, each potentially with their own views and agendas.
I think defederation should be reserved for openly malicious servers and used as an absolute last resort. Think of the Internet and how horrible it would be if countries decided to just disconnect from other countries based on conflicting ideologies.
The vast majority of users on legitimate instances just want to explore interesting things, share some thoughts and have a good time. Defederating hurts legitimate users the most, trolls can easily hop instances and find another way to troll.
Here you can find our guiding principles, rules and perspectives.
Rules
Please follow these rules while using our server:
- Nothing illegal in New Zealand
- Treat others with respect
- No porn / NSFW content
As a rule of thumb, if it's illegal in your home country then it's probably illegal in New Zealand too, especially if you're somewhere in the western world.
Speech
We’ve tried to keep the server rules down to a minimum as we don’t believe in micro managing what people can and can’t say. Please use common sense, treat others with respect and try to be an adult about it.
Communities are free to set their own rules and moderate as they see fit, noting that the general server rules will always apply everywhere.
Your speech is powerful and everything you say has the potential to change someone’s life in unexpected ways. Please try to use this power for good.
Communities
You are welcome to start a new community here as long as you respect our server rules and do so in good faith. Bad faith examples include:
- Spamming new communities
- Starting new communities just to reserve the name
Federation
Defederating from other instances is an absolute last resort and we will only do so under the following circumstances:
- If their content has the potential to get us into legal trouble
- If they are acting as an attack vector towards us
We also want to avoid being blocked and will work with any instance admin to try and prevent that from happening.
As a user, you have the ability to block any content you dislike and we encourage you to do so. Please do not ask us to defederate from anyone unless they meet one of the conditions mentioned above.
Notices
I run this server in my free time, using my own resources, out of my own pocket.
At the moment I believe I have sufficient resources to suport a lot of growth and see no reason why I should ever have to shut down the server. I am excited about Lemdit and want to see it grow into something beautiful for many years to come.
However, I also can’t see into the future and there is always the possibility that something unexpected will impact my ability to keep running this instance.
My pledge is to be as transparent as possible with you and do my best to resolve any issue that may arise.
If it can’t be resolved, then I will attempt to provide you with at least 30 days notice of the server shutting down, so that you may have enough time to find another home.
Version history
21 June 2023
- Initial release
02 July 2023
- Added the server rules (previously displayed on the home page sidebar)
- Changed the order of topics
18 July 2023
- Removed “We will not defederate! We are not currently blocking anyone, nor do we want to be.” since we’ve meanwhile defederated burggit.moe due to legal concerns. Our intent remains unchanged, but this bit is no longer technically correct.
19 July 2023
- Added Version history for transparency
While it seems a bit cliche to talk about ~the server~, there are hundreds of Lemmy instances out there and you never know if the server is just someone's crappy old laptop. How the server is set up is also relevant, as it has a direct impact on your experience.
Server info
lemdit.com is running inside of a VM, on a self-hosted server that is located in New Zealand. Self-hosted means this server is a physical machine that sits a few meters away from me, not a virtual server provided by a 3rd party.
The Lemmy instance currently has 8 Xeon cores and 128GB of RAM allocated to it, which is complete overkill for the forseeable future. The host machine has 44 cores / 88 threads, 512 GB of RAM and 10Gb NICs, so there is plenty of room to grow.
The server is connected to the world via gigabit fibre. Due to how far New Zealand is from the rest of the world, Lemdit may not feel as snappy to you if you're in the US or the EU, for example, but it certainly shouldn't feel slow either.
Service continuity
While I don't live in a datacentre, I take some precautions to maximize resilience and uptime. The database is backed up daily and the VM image is also backed up periodically, which means restoring Lemdit is relatively easy and machine agnostic. I have a secondary server with similar specs that I can switch to if the primary server dies.
The server is connected to a UPS and there is a back-up petrol generator on hand in case of power failure.
There are some things that are outside of my means, such as having a redundant Internet connection. I'm also away from home often and won't always be immediately available to deal with events.
In general though our uptime track record is solid and you can expect Lemdit to be dependable. Reddit has had more outages than my self-hosted Libreddit instance has, for example.
Instance settings
This is how our Lemmy instance is configured and what that means:
- Open registration:
enabled- Anyone can create an account by signing up, we do not require registration applications. - E-mail verification:
enabled- You will need to verify your e-mail address before your account is activated. - User community creation:
enabled- Users are able to create new communities themselves, without Admin intervention. - Downvotes:
enabled- Posts and comments can be downvoted as well as upvoted. - NSFW:
disabled- We don't allow NSFW content on this server. - Image upload limit:
20MB- This is the maximum image size permitted on this server.
Version history
17 June 2023
- Initial release
02 July 2023
- Added “Instance settings” (moved from the home page side panel).
- Added host machine specifications.
- Added service continuity details
18 July 2023
- Removed "Number of instances defederated: 1 - This is the number of other Fediverse instances we have blocked." Keeping a track of this here is redundant.
19 July 2023
- Added Version history for transparency
After a week of tinkering, lemdit.com is finally ready to sail on the great federated seas!
As of now there isn’t anyone here to mark the occasion, but this post will serve as the symbolic champagne bottle smashed against the hull of the ship.
It took about the same for me.