Firstly, I wanted to apologize for the silence over the past couple weeks. Work, life took over administering this instance.

Onto the good stuff.

As some of you may have noticed we skipped 0.18.0 because of some unforeseen issues but we're now on 0.18.1. In my extremely minimal testing, the upgrade seems to have gone through largely smoothly! Please do let me know if you see any weirdness. (Some old themes might be borked, please update your own interface accordingly).

I am aware that Jerboa was completely broken, hopefully it works now (I can't test it since I don't have access to Android).

Time for some stats:

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$ df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs           392M  1.7M  390M   1% /run
/dev/vda1        94G   21G   69G  23% /
tmpfs           2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs           5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
tmpfs           392M  4.0K  392M   1% 
  

In case anyone was wondering, yes we were down for ~2 hours or so. I apologize for the inconvenience.

We had a botched upgrade path from 0.17.4 -> 0.18.0. I spent some time debugging but eventually gave up and restored a snapshot (taken on Saturday Jun 24, 2023 @ 11:00 UTC).

We'll likely stick to 0.17.4 till I can figure out a safe path to upgrade to a bigger (and up-to-date) instance and carry over all the user data. Any help/advice welcome. Hopefully this doesn't occur again!

Hey all,

It's been slightly over two weeks since lemmyrs started. It's been pretty fun watching the community grow!

Some instance stats for you:

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$ df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs            97M  1.7M   96M   2% /run
/dev/vda1        24G   15G  7.1G  68% /
tmpfs           485M     0  485M   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs           5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
tmpfs            97M  4.0K   97M   1% /run/user/1002

  

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$ free -mh
               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:           969Mi       445Mi        77Mi       134Mi       445Mi       240Mi
Swap:          2.3Gi       571Mi       1.8Gi

  

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lemmy=# select count(id) from local_user;
 count
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   294
(1 row)

  

We're cutting it pretty close in terms of RAM and Disk usage, the user growth rate has mostly flat-lined though once r/rust came back online so I'm not too concerned. When (If) it's time I'll likely bump up the Vultr instance plan to something whi

Hey all,

Just thought I'd share an update. I have added a few new communities and renamed the existing communities to have slightly more consistent naming throughout this instance. Icons are primarily from Wikimedia Commons (replacements welcome as long as there are no copyright issues).

Added:

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- Rust: Web Development
- Rust: Game Development
- Rust: Embedded Systems

  

Renamed:

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- Memes to Rust: Memes
- News to Rust: News
- Support to Rust: Support
- Meta to Rust: Meta

  

PS: The identifiers for the renamed communities remain the same. Open to any suggestions/thoughts on this change or otherwise.

Cheers!

Hey everyone, thought I'd post some stats since we're one week old now!

From Vultr (instance is hosted through them):

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Total applications: 116
Denied applications: 4 (one person asked to change username, 3 others gave one word answer to the application question)
Accepted applications: 112

  

docker stats (snapshot):

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CONTAINER ID   NAME       CPU %     MEM USAGE / LIMIT     MEM %     NET I/O           BLOCK I/O         PIDS
7f365c848236   caddy      0.19%     43.22MiB / 969.4MiB   4.46%     7.23GB / 7.65GB   631MB / 146MB     8
d9421a5d930a   lemmy-ui   0.00%     49.62MiB / 969.4MiB   5.12%     1.51GB / 3.32GB   869MB / 1.26GB    11
e8850c310380   lemmy      0.08%     52.53MiB / 969.4MiB   5.42%     5.67GB / 5.86GB   942MB / 582MB     8
7ebb13fde277   postgres   0.02%     304.2MiB / 969.4MiB   31.38%    908MB / 2.97GB    3.82GB / 14.4GB   12
9b471baacf84   pictrs     0.05%     10.32MiB / 969.4MiB 
  

Please participate in the poll. Question is whether we should migrate control, maintenance, community operations etc to Nivenly (Hackyderm) foundation.

I've had a few questions about trouble accessing other communities from here.

First and foremost, I request you to be patient, lemmy is...alpha software at best imho. There's 200+ issues on github right now and very few maintainers. No one expected things to take the turn they did within a matter of days, but here we are :)

Biggest known issues:

Websocket support is being reworked

This is out of my hand and I can confirm that its busted. I tested locally and the current main lemmy backend branch is incompatible with lemmy-ui branch. Can't even login if you set everything up locally.

Accessing communities from other instances is flaky

Good news is that there is shoddy workaround. Say you want to access c/gaming from beehaw.org. Enter the full url https://beehaw.org/c/gaming in your search, it won't show up, click search a couple times then wait a sec, then enter just gaming and it pops up magically.

No high qua

I have noticed some questions around whether lemmyrs.org will continue to be up and running for a long time. I'm hopeful that it does.

For full transparency, here's what I'm currently personally paying for:

1. lemmyrs.org domain: $12/year, bought on Google domain
2. lemmyrs.org vultr instance $7/month:

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AMD High Performance 1 vCPU, 1024 MB RAM, 25 GB NVMe, 2.00 TB Transfer 

  

3. Emails are sent using zoho mail free tier. If absolutely necessary an additional $2 for two users (admin and noreply) /month would be added.

Total cost (yearly): $96 + (some tax).

As things stand right now ~$100/year is easily affordable but as the number of users grow, it largely boils down to egress and storage costs. I can personally bear most of it, but if it starts booming then I'll have to rethink about options.

Rest assured, we will be here for the long run!

I'm just one person here, if this gains traction I'm gonna need some help with moderation and administration. Keeping this open to discuss the future possibilities!

Welcome all Reddit refugees, rustaceans and everyone else. Let's keep it civil and check out the fediverse together!

Hopefully, I'm not breaking any rules by posting this here!

I thought that instead of every community being on the main lemmy.ml instance I'd host a different (dedicated) instance for refugee rustaceans to get a hang of the fediverse.

It's listed on join-lemmy/instances and the link is lemmyrs.org, everyone is welcome!