possumpat.io Xenoblade Chronicles - The Possum Patio
A community for the Xenoblade Chronicles series of RPG games. Xenogears and Xenosaga discussion welcome too!
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Possum Patio status update + future plans
Hey everyone - quick updated on the state of the instance.
- Still planning on going offline indefinitely. Moving stuff happening soon. Since I hadn't updated with any news yet, going to try to keep things online for around another week.
- I'm reasonably confident I'll be able to bring the instance back... eventually. Might be in a week, might be in a few months. I plan on sending out messages to registration emails to let people know we're back, whenever that is.
Thank you for the well wishes in both comments and DMs. It means a lot.
As before, shoot me a DM if you want to stay in touch on Discord where you can nag me and ask when things will be back up, if you want.
Stay cool out there.
You can run your own relay, though:
I do prefer Activitypub overall, and it's certainly more mature, but any efforts towards decentralization should be encouraged/celebrated.
They've followed through on their promises so far, and you can actually self-host pretty much the whole stack today:
https://alice.bsky.sh/post/3laega7icmi2q
I'd perfer for mastodon to take off personally, but really at this point both are good options and worlds better than twitter.
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The Possum Patio Will be offline indefinitely on or before January 20, 2025
Hi Everyone.
Please excuse the potentially rambling nature of this post, as I'm a bit drunk and emotional.
It's been a while - I know our tiny little Lemmy instance isn't the biggest or most active ever, and I mostly lurk myself these days.
Still, I truly have faith in the promises of a kinder, federated internet, in spite of the events of the recent presidential election in the US.
Running this site has been a fun hobby for me. I'm especially grateful to all of y'all that stuck around and continue to use it as your portal to the fediverse. I learned some things about deploying web services, got to see some funny memes, and it overall was a pretty pleasant time.
This site runs on personal server hardware that I maintain myself. As I wanted to keep the scope and costs small as a hobby project, I chose not to go with any hosting provider or other service, and I elected to be the sole admin of the instance.
For personal reasons, due to the US presidential election, It's not going t
Dawntrail Unmarked Spoiler Thread
Go nuts, post all the spoilers here.
Not pinning this one so nobody wanders in on accident. 🙂
Dawntrail Spoiler Policy
Hey Everyone! Friendly neighborhood mod here. As EA launch is less than 3 weeks away, a quick note on how we're handling spoilers here.
Please put all Dawntrail story discussion behind spoiler tags / content warnings (outside of the unmarked spoiler thread)
Go here if you want to discuss things spoiler-tag-free.
If you see any unmarked spoilers elsewhere, feel free to report 'em.
FFXIV traffic here on my humble Lemmy instance is still pretty chill, but I'd figure I'd get out ahead of the problem just in case. See you all in Tural!
Hey, sorry I missed this. Not sure what's going on with that - the post you've got there is deleted though.
Unfortunately, it looks like both Sync and Jerboa do not yet support the backend changes made in version 0.19 🙁
I didn't really want to upgrade to 0.19-rc yet because I was worried that something like this would happen, but the CSAM/Moderation problem has come up often enough that I felt it was safer to have the better moderation tools and risk some breakage.
Hopefully Sync and Jerboa will be updated soon, as 0.19 should have it's full release any day now. If you're willing to try some other mobile apps in the meantime, here are some that are already 0.19 compatible:
Apologies for the inconvenience. 🙇
Downtime and Update to Lemmy 0.19 Prerelease
Hey everyone, just a quick update on the downtime earlier this morning.
CSAM was posted to a community we federate with by a user from kbin.cafe, so I've taken the following actions:
- Purged that user and related media upload links from our database.
- Defederated from kbin.cafe, as their admin seems to have mostly abandoned the site.
- Upgraded to the release candidate of Lemmy 0.19, since it has new admin/moderation features that'll make handling cases like this easier in the future.
On the bright side, Lemmy 0.19 has some fancy new performance improvements and improved post ranking options! Stay tuned for a full feature overview soon from the Lemmy project folks.
(Edit) Here's some updates on 0.19 and breaking changes:
https://possumpat.io/post/1123074
https://possumpat.io/post/1639282
(Edit2)
We're now updated to the full 0.19 release!
As always, if you have any questions or concerns let me know.
possumpat.io database hardware upgrade
Hey everyone! Quick instance update.
You may have noticed some server instability over the past few weeks with the site being slow or unresponsive. Today I upgraded the database hardware to better handle the federation traffic volume, so far seems like everything is humming along much more smoothly. 🎉
Image hosting has been rolled back 48 hours and partially disabled.
Over the past day, large lemmy instances were vandalized with CSAM spam. To ensure possumpat.io has no caching of these images, I'm rolling back the image database by a few days and currently pausing new image uploads.
You might see some server downtime as maintenance is done around this.
possumpat.io is the instance this community is hosted on. It's a (bad) domain name joke😅
We're set on moderators for now, though thanks for your interest.
Welcome! It's a bit slow around here compared to reddit but the vibes are chill. 😎
I love cbu3 leaning into the Phoenix as their mascot, glad we're finally getting the coil version as a mount.
It'd been a while since they put one of these on because of Covid, but apparently they're always a bit of a mess.
Had a pretty great time! Was nice seeing online friends in person. The event itself was poorly managed though😅
The Possum Patio has been upgraded to Lemmy version 0.18.3
Even more performance updates! I was a bit slow getting this one rolled out as I was at FFXIV fanfest. 🙂
As always, let me know if you have any problems or questions.
Pretty much same experience here. I had some fun with it as an overwatch replacement for a couple weeks after launch, but it was pretty rough around the edges and the monetization was... yeah.
Not surprised they're killing it already, maybe someday Bandai will give us an actually good Gundam game again. From Software is making more Armored Core in collaboration with Bamco already, I'd love to see them take the IP and do something with it.
Lemmy security issue - Custom emoji temporarily removed and all user logins have been reset.
As you may have seen, lemmy.world was recently compromised due to an attacker gaining access to an Administrator account.
This exploit is related to the custom emoji feature, so as a precaution the few custom emoji we had so far have been removed.
As the attack involves hijacking an already logged-in account session, all user sessions have been reset - just in case any possumpat.io account was compromised while we had custom emoji enabled. I apologize for the inconvenience.
I'll update this post once we know more, and as always if you have any questions let me know.
Edit: For those interested in the technical details, this github thread details the vulnerability and ongoing efforts to mitigate it.
Edit: lemmy.world's post on the hack.
Edit: Exploit has been patched, will re-enable custom emoji soon.
Soon as I find some time to figure out lemmy bots, I'd like to automate this kind of thing - unless you want to keep doing it manually! 😅
Kamille, listen, who cares if your name is a girl's name. And it is, Kamille. It is. But it doesn't have to--put down the ball--it doesn't have to define you because you can CHANGE it, Kamille. Buy a mask or some sunglasses and call yourself WHATEVER you want. People are idiots. Also it's pronounced BAH-JEEN-AH. Of course I know how it SOUNDS, Kamille. I'm not an IDIOT. I'm a drunk who makes poor choices. Let's see you stay off the sauce after your first few war crimes, Kamille. Let's see how sober YOU are. Now shut up and get back in the cockpit.
The Possum Patio has been upgraded to Lemmy version 0.18.1
Many backend performance improvments and some tweaks to the default web UI.
I'm personally seeing an issue with the update right now - The site theme is sometimes getting confused between light and dark mode. If you are encountering this, let me know. In the meantime, choosing a site theme in your user settings seems to fix the mixup.
That aspect of ffxiv is one of my favorite things about it - there's almost no fomo / season pass shenanigans (outside of pvp). I've been playing since the 2.X days and the way everything is designed around playing at your own pace has really made it easy to enjoy over the years.
[email protected] is looking for mods!
Hey everyone! Admin of possumpat.io here.
It's been a amazing to watch this community grow on my humble little possum themed instance. As far as I can tell, it's the largest FFXIV community on Lemmy so far. Neat!
In an attempt to be proactive and anticipating more growth, I'd like to try and bring on a couple more moderators to help keep things going smoothly. There haven't been any issues that need moderation so far on !ffxiv - but it doesn't hurt to be prepared, especially if this community continues to grow.
If you would like to be a moderator for [email protected] (or any other possumpat.io community), shoot me a DM and we'll chat.
me rn under a blanket at my desk doing server maintenance.
The Witch from Mercury - Episode 24 spoiler thread
Discussion thread for episode 24 of Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury.
I hope they never stop producing these, I need a full shelf of xiv lore.
The Witch from Mercury - Episode 23 spoiler thread
Discussion thread for episode 23 of Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury.
I was up late enough to make the thread for once 🙂
Custom Emoji!
With the upgrade to 0.18, we now have custom emoji support!
Feel free to suggest any emoji you like in the comments.
The Possum Patio has been upgraded to Lemmy version 0.18
Lots of performance and UI improvements! As always let me know if anything seems missing or broken.
Woah, this is great!
Both types of discussion are welcome here - if this ever grows large enough that we need to split the "hardcore" crowd into their own community, we'll cross that bridge when we get there.
The REAL real tragedy would be losing r/shitpostxiv 🤣
A new community for tea enthusiasts.
As requested in the meta thread, here's a space for discussing tea and tea related things. I'm not a big tea person, so I'd love some suggestions for an icon/banner/sidebar description. Let me know in the comments!
A community for all things Xenoblade (and Xeno games in general)
[email protected] is feelin' full of beans!
Media criticism is welcome here, so long as everyone is respectful. Art is inherently subjective - people are going to like different things for different reasons, and it's okay to say you didn't enjoy something.
I'd discourage low effort discussion though. Instead of saying "Voyager sucks" let's try "Voyager didn't work for me because it was too episodic" (not a criticism I personally have, just an example).
I'd suggest reviewing the posting guidelines in the sidebar, and if anyone gets nasty or you see harassment feel free to file a report or shoot me a DM.
Wow, those colors look fantastic. I've been debating on getting an airbrushing setup, have any reccomendations?
My HG Aerial is in the mail and I can only hope it comes out looking half this nice.
Possum Help Desk
Site loading slow?
Can't find a community?
Questions about Lemmy/Fediverse?
Friend's registration application lost in the mail?
Post any and all questions about the instance here, and I'll see what I can do to help.
Let's have a gunpla thread!
Does anyone have some gunpla they've put together recently, or that they're working on?
Here's an old RS-178 MKII PG kit I assembled recently. Still deciding how I want to detail him, but as my first PG the level of detail and articulation is really cool.