Regular backups should do the job. It’s all run in docker instances with mapped volumes, so you can just backup those contents regularly and roll-back worst case if things completely pooped out. Otherwise maintenance isn’t really much worse than a normal webserver - great for learning Linux CLI if you’re not already familiar.
No reason you shouldn’t spin up a node though! The more the better - lets load spread out.
Yep - but each user needs to be approved by an admin. So if things started getting rowdy I’m sure admins would close things on the bigger instances to focus more on modding, and de-fed rowdy instances that can’t keep up at least temporarily.
Yeah, this is a golden moment for those of us who like to learn from sudden heavy load on server software! There are not very many teachable moments like this out there, so I’m trying to soak everything up for work experience
Maybe, maybe not, but the instances have the option of closing registrations for a bit if they get overwhelmed and need to regroup. This is why it’s nice to see lots of other instances popping up across the fediverse
It’s still a little unknown at this time what you need to handle X number of users, beyond a few hundred. Beehaw.org is pretty open about what they’re using though in their financial statements if you’re curious, but there’s of operational optimization being tried out to see what’ll help.
The stack is: postgres, pictrs, lemmy (Rust), lemmy-ui (nodejs), and nginx. RAM usage isn’t too bad, but so far I see CPU and disk I/O (pictrs) as the limitation. Websockets are being removed which was another hurdle - would cause nginx worker threads to max out and drop instances off.
I’m on a 6$/month droplet as a reference for my single user instance and I’m subbed to a boatload of communities. So far I’m not having problems, but I made a 2GB swapfile for safety if RAM somehow spiked. CPU usage for me tends to spike when a community is being loaded for the first time due to image processing, but otherwise things are pretty idle.
I fired up my own personal test instance so I can experiment with figuring out ways to reduce bottlenecks on the sysadmin/devops side - used to run the various PHP forums back in the day, so hoping to pass on some knowledge eventually.
I figure the toxic side(s) will gravitate towards instances that will tolerate their behaviour which is easier to deal with. Mods will be busy for a little bit though, and I wouldn’t be surprised if registrations closed for a bit on some of the bigger instances so they can catch up if they don’t just fall flat over on the heavy days. But, lots of smart folks trying to prep for this.
Lived in hot parts of the states and Canada. Pretty much just stay hydrated and take cooloff breaks when possible (whether AC, or cold showers.) Inside, use reflective or white materials to block windows to reflect sunlight out - blackout curtains are fantastic for this. Become a goblin - the sun is your enemy indoors when it comes to super hot days, especially if you do not have AC.
Also, do hot activities outside. Ie, BBQ all the things and don’t run the stove or oven if possible.
Not much you can do about sweat. Just be sure to dry out your clothes every here and there so you don’t have moist clothes on 24/7, or you could end up with a fungal skin infection (in folds if you have any, or the more private areas.)
Brave - works mobile and desktop for me.
I wanted reddit, but with the ability to archive my data for later usage. Ie, I wanted to be able to have all my content readable at least even if where it was posted went down (whether briefly or permenantly)
Lemmy lets me run my own instance, so it works great for this. Gives me some sort of control of my destiny, while still being able to participate in essentially message boards.
browse.feddit.de has been great for me, combined with lots of recommendation threads from folks lately as some communities move over
Yeah, moderation makes a huge difference in the content. Things can become siloed very quickly by bad moderation practices
Yep exactly. Culture got diluted far too much. Niche subs were/are good for specific interests, but everything else changed so much nowadays
Matrix is basically federated discord. It’s to discord what Lemmy is to reddit
Well, I’m replying from my own single-user instance which may answer your question :)
But yes, you can sub from one instance to another’s communities no issues. The only exception is for instances your instance doesn’t federate with, which is basically an admin-level blacklist.
I’m subbed to communities across at least a half dozen instances from my own one, and it works perfectly fine for both viewing and posting.
They’re actively banning accounts from reports I’ve seen. As in banned the next day
My guess is by doing this. I think they’re testing things out with outlook too from what I’ve heard from some old coworkers in the Microsoft space. Google only added it in about two or three weeks ago, so it’s still a pretty new feature.
Closest thing I’ve seen that I’ve liked is on Google chat workspaces: a quick summary of what people have said since my last visit to the thread. Would make a nifty plug-in/addon
And to be honest, I don’t see that as a bad thing. I find the content here is actually worth reading through almost every comment, whereas on Reddit/Digg/Twitter I’d scroll past hundreds at a time because of how low-quality they looked.
And are we lemmings? I’ve wondered what the term of what the users will be called will be
It’s a fraction of the work of an email server, if you’re not keeping many users on it. Ie, my personal instance requires almost no work