We've had an influx of new user recently, so I just wanted to welcome everyone. Feel free to introduce yourself and ask any questions.

Also, friendly reminder to donate if you can! The instance costs less than 10 cents per user per month, but with almost 600 users and only $9 of monthly donations I'm paying almost $50/month out of my pocket to keep it running. Thanks!

Hey, friends!

Just a heads up that I'll be upgrading the instance tomorrow (Mar 6th), and there will be considerable downtime since we need to migrate from Postgres 15 to 16.

Thanks!

Edit: done! We're running the latest version (0.19.9) now.

Hey, friends!

In the last couple weeks I upgraded our instance to run the latest version of Lemmy, and because it was consuming more RAM today I upgraded the VPS to one with 4GB.

This means that the cost for running the instance have gone up. Historically I've been paying around $20 per month out of my pocket to run the instance (after Ko-fi donations), and this will increase to $35 after the upgrade.

Our cost per user is around $0.10/month, so it's not a lot. If you can contribute money, even $1/month, please do, it really helps.

Thanks!

After 2 or 3 days, I have to login again. I've googled, but have not found any Lemmy setting that would allow me to remain logged in longer than this. I suspect people are going back to Reddit simply because they're always logged in there - month after month. I suspect there is a setting the instance admin can change. I'm hoping that Lemmy.studio's owner can answer this question... or anybody. Thanks.

Greetings,

I'm subscribed to [email protected]. When logged into my lemmy.studio account, the latest cities skylines post is about 4 months old. But if I go to https://lemmy.ml/c/citiesskylines, there are a bunch of more recent posts. Any idea what might be going on?

Many thanks in advance.

Edit: this happens with some other communities too, not just cities skylines.

No major changes, just bug fixes.

Let me know if something's not working.

There has been a shitty incident where someone intentionally posted CSAM to a Lemmy community that unfortunately someone in our instance was subscribed to. Due to federation, the images might have been copied over to our instance storage.

Because of that I've taken the following measures until we understand the problem better:

1. I've defederated from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works.
2. I've deleted all images uploaded since 2023-08-27 00:00:00 GMT.
3. I've disabled the image server.

I'll post updates when I have them. Thanks for understanding.

Link is also on the sidebar. We'll use it to keep people updated on releases and give support when people can't reach the Lemmy instance.

Also, I'm an IRC kind of person, so forgive my noobness with Matrix. 🙃

Hey, hey!

This morning (Pacific time) I changed the nameservers on lemmy.studio, switching to a service that provides a CDN and a WAF. It's a cautionary measure to protect us from DDOS attacks. That caused some instabilities, sorry for that.

I also noticed that the CDN was too aggressive, caching URLs regardless of the Content-type, and it seems that Lemmy uses content negotiation (the same endpoint can return HTML or JSON depending on the headers). I've fixed the caching to take the headers in consideration, so hopefully you won't be seeing JSON responses when accessing the website on your desktop. If you do, let me know!

On a related note, I created a spreadsheet showing the monthly expenses on the instance, and how much we're making from user donations on Ko-fi. The sheets was shared with the current supporters. If you can spare a dollar (or five) every month to help the instance run smoothly please do, anything helps.

Thanks!

Hi, folks!

Since I started lemmy.studio a lot of people have reached out offering help and financial support for our instance. While right now the hosting costs and administration efforts are mostly negligible, I want to make sure the instance can grown in a sustainable way, and I have some ideas on how to do that.

For financial support, I created a Ko-fi page. If you're not familiar with Ko-fi, they're very similar to Patreon, but the fees are optional and they pay creators immediately (not monthly). They also support one-off donations, which is nice. Right now there's a single monthly tier of $1 (though of course people can pay more, if they want).

The current monthly costs for the server, domain, and backups are around $25/month (edit: $45), and we have almost 200 users, so I'm hoping it will be relatively easier to get the costs covered. Any excess income would go towards a reserve to ensure we have a good runway and funds for upgrading the s

Hi, folks!

Sorry for the latest instabilities in the instance. For some reason we were getting spikes of 100% every now and then, and that would make the instance unstable.

I just finished upgrading to 0.18.3, which was released today. There should be a lot of CPU improvements since 0.18.0, so hopefully the instance will be more stable from now on.

Let me know if you encounter any problems! Since we're usually in the dark during instance upgrades I created a Mastodon account for the instance, so I can post status updates. You can find it here: https://mastodon.social/@lemmystudio

Lately there appears to be some issues with the instance (sometimes it is completely down and I have also been getting a lot of 504 errors) and I was wondering if this is a known issue and when it may be fixed.

are there any plans to upgrade to 0.18.2?

I will just try my best in an attempt to create an introduction; I’m an absolute Lemmy newbie, so please, bear with me and cut me some slack if things are done differently here.

I’ve just created my profile and filled it with some info; as this post’s link I’ll point to my latest six singles. But I want to assure you that I do not want to talk about just my music, quite the opposite—I love to share all kinds of music from all around the world and the past eight decades.

I am looking forward to engaging in some inspiring, enlightening, funny conversations here on Lemmy. Thanks for having me!

Ah, apparently we don’t use #hashtags here?

and add me as a moderator after I make a post there

I'm on an instance where community creation got disabled. And from what I see, lemmy.studio is the instance about music, so it is the most appropriate to host this community.

wefwef Voyager is a neat mobile-focused client I found that is similar to the Apollo client for Reddit. It is a web app (and probably the best web app I have ever used), so it takes almost no space to install and works on many platforms (currently the interface is styled to look like an iOS native app, but they are planning on making an Android theme).

Recently, they also released mobile apps, which work better than the PWA sometimes.

I appointed myself as a moderator of my community [email protected] and it shows on the page on Mander but not on lemmy.studio, and I am not able to moderate the community from my lemmy.studio account.

I'm planning to upgrade to 0.18 today and move the storage to S3, so I'll bring the instance down between 5-6pm PDT.

Update: this took longer than I expected. I started at 6pm because of work. I shut down the instance and took a snapshot, then brought it back up and upgraded to 0.18. The upgrade worked fine. I brought the services down and configured the instance to use S3 for object storage. That required migrating existing objects to an S3 bucket, which took quite some time. Then, after bringing the services back up again I got a "Server error" message. Unfortunately I had to stop at 8pm since I had something scheduled. At 9:15pm I was able to bring the services up successfully, and we're back!

Update 2: turns out we hit this bug, and the instance was down around 11pm. I changed the hostname of the instance and now it seems to be working fine.

I am trying to subscribe to the community [email protected], and it is not showing up when I search for it. I was able to access another community from Mander earlier, so it is a bit of a strange issue.

I used to be active on the meme subreddits r/pinkfloydcirclejerk and r/beatlescirclejerk, these were active communities with funny memes.

Now that I'm on Lemmy, I feel like I should help recreate one of the subs that I used to enjoy on reddit. I figured those would be the best canidates, because this instance is about music. But idk if it’s relevant because it’s more about music production lol

Also there were a lot of r/(insert band name here)circkejerk type subs, so if i wanna create a community for that sort of thing should it be for a specific band, or just one for dad rock bands in general? idk lol

Edit: I created it! Welcome to c/dadrockcirclejerk!