Hey! Have you subscribed to the community? When i look, it appears there are no lemmy.zip subscribers there, and Lemmy won't share any updates in communities with no subscribers, so I'd say make sure you hit the subscribe button and then check again a little while later.
There are additional costs that aren't factored in (although they're not specifically lemmy, and I pay for them myself rather than use donations) such as a very cheap vps for our status.lemmy.zip page and i got a 3 year deal for an external email provider for less than some email providers wanted a month.
Our server is the same one feddit.uk use (a hetzner auction server) although lemmy.zips I think was a touch more expensive per month. But it's got a lot of room for growth.
Also we now host all our backups offside too, which adds a little on top. I'll probably cover this in the next server update.
Prosecutors say there "is no longer a realistic prospect of conviction" after bringing charges in 2022.
The 33-year-old Ugandan was doused in petrol after returning home from church.
No, not them visiting their own instance for example.
What I think this is made up of is the activities created by users on other instances, i.e. if someone makes a comment on their own instance but we're federated with it, we get a copy of that activity and that counts towards this traffic.
I don't know what's happening in Hong Kong, but lemmy.world and lemm.ee and some others are hosted in Finland (as is Lemmy.zip now!) because of Hetzner, so that's where we get most of our traffic from
Hmm, I can't say I've seen this issue before, but I would always recommend starting with clearing cookies/site data and see if the issue goes away (it will log you out, be warned!). There hasn't been any lemmy updates for a while so I dont think anything on the server will be causing it (although could be entirely wrong!)
Hi All!
Welcome to another monthly Lemmy.zip server update!
I have been increasingly busy in "real life" so haven't had much time to dedicate to Lemmy.zip recently (I got married!) however things are calming down now and I'm able to spend a bit more time keeping an eye on things. I had a few messages/requests and I think I've responded to them all, but let me know if I've missed anything.
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Communities
Take a look at these new communities. If you enjoy them, give them a subscribe :)
There are also some existing communities that are looking for mods. Fancy trying out being a mod with a pre-existing community? Now is your chance!
PS - I finally have some time to start clearing up old/unused communities - I will be PM'ing mods soon!
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Server Updates
It's been a little while since my last update so I'll go over some of the things that have happened or are happening:
We had a great Canvas event again, with the Lemmy.zip logo once again being lovingly recreated, and a few of our community's logos popping up, including the amazing SquaredCircle logo too!
You can see more on the completed Canvas here.
Did you know - we have a public dashboard showing all of our up to date federation/server data? You can check it out here!
Given some of the recent wider fediverse moderation issues/drama that has happened recently, I thought it might be sensible to confirm our position on moderation and how we decide what actions we take. We're not a massive instance, and we do get very few issues deriving from Lemmy.zip thankfully (I know moderators on larger instances probably have a trickier time of it), however our aim is not to interfere, silence, or in any way censor our communities, as long as the content is legal (in the UK/EU specifically, as that's where we're hosted) and it isn't going to cause harm to someone. You can see our full set of policies on our legal site - if you think something isn't clear enough or is missing, let me know and I will update/add it!
I'm also not usually one for podcasts, but I did stumble across this podcast on spotify that in the latest episode talks a bit about moderation in the wider Fediverse (more mastodon leaning, but the points I thought were interesting given the different ways servers are run). I am not one for mass block lists, we take each server as it interacts with us. Anyway if you're interested in that sort of thing, then I would recommend taking a listen - It's called DotSocial if you want to have a look on other platforms.
Finally, the Status Page has had a bit of a tidy up and now lists each frontend for clarity. I'm happy with the current set of frontends, but if you see one being used elsewhere you think we could host, let me know!
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Interaction reminder (help support the instance!)
If you’re new to Lemmy.zip - WELCOME! I hope you’re enjoying your time here :)
I am sure that long term readers are bored of reading this now, but it is really is true that the easiest way you can support Lemmy.zip is to actively engage with content here: upvoting content you enjoy, sharing your thoughts through posts and comments, sparking meaningful discussions, or even creating new communities that resonate with your interests.
It’s natural to see fluctuations in user activity over time, and we’ve seen this over the wider lemmy-verse for some time now. However, if you’ve found a home here and love this space, now is the perfect opportunity to help us thrive.
If you want to support us in a different way than financially, then actively interacting with the instance helps us out loads.
If you've gone to the trouble of creating an account, then come and be part of the Fediverse! Please don't be a lurker! :)
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Donations
Lemmy.zip only continues to exist because of the generous donations of its users. The operating cost of Lemmy.zip is over 50 euros a month ($54, £43) and is mostly funded by the community!
We keep all the details around donations on our OpenCollective page, with full transparency around income and expenditure.
If you're enjoying Lemmy.zip, please check out the OpenCollective page, we have a selection of one-off or recurring donation options. All funds go directly to hosting the site and keeping the virtual lights on.
We've also put up a link to our Ko-Fi page where you can donate via paypal instead of using a card. All Ko-Fi donations will be totalled up and added to OpenCollective each month for transparency. I've added a link in the sidebar, but you can also click the image below to go there:
[!](https://ko-fi.com/lemmyzip)
We continue to have some really kind and generous donators and I can't express my thanks enough. You can see all the kind donators in the Thank You thread - you could get your name in there too!
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Graphs n' stats n' stuff
Pretty graph time:
CPU usage over the last 30 days: !
Memory (RAM) usage over the last 30 days:
Disk space use:
Image storage:
Cloudflare overall stats:
Requests:
Bandwidth:
Unique visitors:
Top country taffic:
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That's it from me this month, I'll probably also miss the next one of these too covering September as I'll be in a much hotter country than the UK at the end of the month for a holiday, but will try to play catch up when I'm back.
As always, if I've missed anything or there is something you'd like to see added to these, let me know! I'm always open to adding more to this.
Cheers,
Demigodrick
Having played a fair bit of ESO on steam deck I have no idea what you mean. OK it's not gonna run 120fps in 4k but it certainly ran fine.
I can't see anything obvious (I use firefox on android) - could you try deleting the site data for t.lemmy.zip? (it may log you out of lemmy.zip too). I would guess something in the cache has got confused.
You could also see if this link works instead
No, it should be working fine - is it the tesseract loading animation you get? Or just a blank page?
Can you let me know device/browser as well please, and I can take a look
Hi all,
Time for a bit of maintenance on the server. Including updating the front-ends to their latest versions.
There will be a reboot or two, but downtime should be minimal. If any issues do crop up that affect the operation of the site, you can see the detail at status.lemmy.zip.
Thanks
Demigodrick
Edit: had to delay a little bit because of unexpected work commitments 🙄
Hey, are you using a vpn or anything like that?
And does this happen only when making a post or does it also happen for comments? Can you log in ok?
I never actually got around to adding a generic version! I think there's still some hard coded ids etc but if there ever was a demand to run this on a different instance I could finish it off.
Hey all,
Time for a bit of maintenance to the site, including updating all the frontends to their latest versions. There may be a small bit of downtime when the server is restarted, but shouldn't take too long.
Cheers,
Demigodrick
Apparently meant to be a brand new idea
Hi all,
Welcome to the July edition of the server update! Let's take a look at how things went in June and might go in July.
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Communities
Take a look at these new communities. If you enjoy them, give them a subscribe :)
There are also some existing communities that are looking for mods. Fancy trying out being a mod with a pre-existing community? Now is your chance!
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Server Updates
Since the last update, we upgraded Lemmy to versions 0.19.4, then version 0.19.5 which fixed a few UI bugs. There is still a known issue with code blocks (text that looks like this) where if you're on the default theme on the website, the text displays with a white background. There should be a fix for this in 0.19.6.
The next Canvas event starts on Friday July 12th - we'll make a post with the details about this a bit closer to the time. Last year was great, the Lemmy.zip logo looked great on the board!
I'm thinking about adding another Admin or two to Lemmy.zip, with a focus on content creation and engagement. The time I have to dedicate to the site is rapidly decreasing, so if you're interested, drop me a message here or on matrix and we can have a chat!
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Interaction reminder (help support the instance!)
If you’re new to Lemmy.zip - WELCOME! I hope you’re enjoying your time here :)
I am sure that long term readers are bored of reading this now, but it is really is true that the easiest way you can support Lemmy.zip is to actively engage with content here: upvoting content you enjoy, sharing your thoughts through posts and comments, sparking meaningful discussions, or even creating new communities that resonate with your interests.
It’s natural to see fluctuations in user activity over time, and we’ve seen this over the wider lemmy-verse for some time now. However, if you’ve found a home here and love this space, now is the perfect opportunity to help us thrive.
If you want to support us in a different way than financially, then actively interacting with the instance helps us out loads.
Please don't be a lurker! :)
---
Donations
Lemmy.zip only continues to exist because of the generous donations of its users. The operating cost of Lemmy.zip is over 50 euros a month ($54, £43) and is mostly funded by the community!
We keep all the details around donations on our OpenCollective page, with full transparency around income and expenditure.
If you're enjoying Lemmy.zip, please check out the OpenCollective page, we have a selection of one-off or recurring donation options. All funds go directly to hosting the site and keeping the virtual lights on.
We've also put up a link to our Ko-Fi page where you can donate via paypal instead of using a card. All Ko-Fi donations will be totalled up and added to OpenCollective each month for transparency. I've added a link in the sidebar, but you can also click the image below to go there:
[!](https://ko-fi.com/lemmyzip)
We continue to have some really kind and generous donators and I can't express my thanks enough. You can see all the kind donators in the Thank You thread - you could get your name in there too!
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Graph time!
Here's some screenshots to show the performance of the server over the last 30 days:
RAM usage:
Image storage:
Cloudflare overview:
Requests:
Bandwidth:
Unique visitors:
Worldwide traffic:
That's it for now - as always, let me know if you have any questions or there any other metrics you want to see!
Cheers
Demigodrick
cross-posted from: https://toast.ooo/post/3740832
>turns out I did my math wrong, so it’s a little less than 30 days
>
> # July 12th, 2024 @ midnight EDT
>
> https://canvas.fediverse.events
>
> ✨ this year’s event also supports the entire fediverse not just Lemmy!
>
> (you have to be able to make/receive text posts, like mastodon, lemmy, pixelfed, etc)
> (peertube accounts will not work)
>
> you can get update announcements on other fedi platforms with @canvas@fediverse.events link
>
> chat about Canvas on Matrix or Discord (they’re bridged)
Hey all,
Today, 10th June 2024, marks Lemmy.zip's first birthday.
Back on the 10th June 2023, I was as disillusioned with Reddit as many others here were, and wanted somewhere I could go where mods and users weren't treated like an end product.
At the time I had been messing with a lot of home server stuff (think Jellyfin and the *arr suite - usenet is great 😉) and figured I could spin up a docker container or two, how hard could it be right?
I'd never even heard of ansible, never changed an nginx config file, hell I'd never had more than one other person use something I'd spun up before. But after a couple of hours, there it was - Lemmy.zip. And suddenly, people were actually joining, posting, and making content. It felt unreal.
Since then, and with an awful lot of help and support from Sami and the community, I feel like we've got a really good, solid, stable and active Lemmy instance, our own corner of the internet where we can't be abused for corporate greed. In this first year, I have spent an awful lot of time learning how to run a so-called "social media" site, how to protect the backend, and how to build a bot to do all the boring stuff.
Linked in this post is a very brief overview of the last year - yearone.lemmy.zip - which gives some detail on how things unfolded at the start.
I am insanely thankful for all the lemmy.zip users, even the ones who only visited briefly. You're all brilliant (yes, even the lurkers 😘 ) and I hope you all continue to enjoy Lemmy.zip for many more years.
Running your own Lemmy server has its ups and downs. Days like today, when I can debug various issues without stressing, push new code to ZippyBot like its second nature, and have the ability to celebrate massive milestones like this, make all the bad times worth it.
I remember about a month or two in to the sites operation, and we'd just upgraded to the latest lemmy version - there was a period of about 5 or 6 hours continuous downtime and nothing I tried was getting the site working again. I was sat with my head in my hands, completely out of ideas, ready to give up. But thanks to the guidance of some fantastic people in the wider Lemmy community, eventually the site came back to life. Many mistakes have been made (many server backups have been restored 🙃) but we've continued to learn and grow, and I think the site is all the better for it.
We've got over 2,500 signed up users, we've recently tipped over 500 active users a month, we're in the top 20 lemmy instances - and in reality, that's all thanks to the mods and users of lemmy.zip. Without you, there wouldn't be any point to the site!
(Interesting fact - our longest serving user is Firestorm Druid - I don't have any medals yet sorry, but you deserve one!)
Looking forward to the next 12 months, I'm hoping we can continue to grow and continue to be a Lemmy instance for everyone. With the increasing enshittification of Reddit (and the wider "traditional" social media sites), I hope many people can escape and make their way over here. The Lemmy of today is a much different place to what it was 12 months ago. Even from purely a technical standpoint, federation is infinitely more reliable, and there are many long-standing servers to choose from now.
So once again I say a massive thank you to everyone. To the mods, you're the backbone of creating content across the whole lemmy network. Its often a thankless job, but here's hoping this goes a little way to expressing the gratitude we all have for you.
To everyone that has donated - I'm still humbled by your generosity. Thank you, you keep the lights on and the bits flowing.
And to the users of Lemmy.zip - thank you for being here. You make this whole thing worthwhile :)
Happy Birthday Lemmy.zip 🍻
Demigodrick ❤️
Hello all!
To celebrate Lemmy.zip turning a whole 1 year old, we're hosting a small giveaway to say thank you for being here ❤️
We're giving away 3 prizes to 3 lucky winners. This will be 1 x £25 Steam giftcard, and 2 x £10 Steam giftcards.
The giveaway will be open for 48 hours from 19:00 UTC on the 9th June, to 19:00 UTC on the 11th June, which nicely covers our Birthday on the 10th :)
You can enter by making a comment in this very thread! Your comment can say or be absolutely anything you want (within reason!)
Once you've made a comment, you should get a message back from ZippyBot confirming you've entered and a ticket number. For transparency, at the end of this we'll publish the entry list and ticket numbers.
You must be a Lemmy.zip user to enter (comments from anyone else will be ignored!) and you will need a Steam account and be happy to send me your username so I can gift you the value via Steam. Your Lemmy.zip account must have been created before the 5th June 2024.
At the end of the giveaway, I'll lock the thread and Zippy will pull three random entries. The first username pulled will win the first prize (£25), and the other two users will win the other prizes (£10).
I've put a few FAQs in this spoiler tag if you want to know more:
FAQs
- Q) Can anyone enter?
- A) You must be a lemmy.zip user, have a steam account, and your lemmy.zip account must have been created before 5th June 2024
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- Q) Can I have a giftcard for a different platform, i.e. xbox or playstation?
- A) Unfortunately not. Those platforms (to my knowledge) don't allow me to purchase a giftcard in the UK and you activate it anywhere in the world. Steam allows currency conversion on gifts.
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- Q) How quickly will I get my prize?
- A) Steam requires that someone must be on a user's friend list for 3 days before giftcards can be sent, therefore I will share my Steam profile with the winners (or vice versa) and after 3 days of being friends on Steam, I will send the gift over. (Unless you live in the UK, in which case I can send you a code within 24 hours)
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- Q) I think my entry was valid, but I didn't get a reply from Zippybot with my ticket number. What do I do?
- A) Send me a message asap! You can try commenting again too.
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- Q) Are Lemmy.zip user donations funding this?
- A) No, just making it clear here that the donations to Lemmy.zip only ever go towards the server and Lemmy.zip infrastructure. The funds for this are coming from my wallet :)
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- Q) How does Zippy select the winners?
- A) Zippy randomly shuffles the list of entrants in the DB. It then randomly shuffles the list again in Python. Then it randomly selects 3 winners from that double shuffled list. You can see the code for this here.
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- Q) What if something goes wrong?
- A) If for any reason something goes wrong during the giveaway, it will be paused until it can be resumed. If too much time lapses, the giveaway will be restarted.
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Congratulations to the winners! @monoboy (£25) @win95 (£10) @anothermember (£10)
Entry List
1 fathix\ 2 mynamesnotrick\ 3 Grimm\ 4 Betawhat\ 5 v4ld1z\ 6 GeekFTW\ 7 Blablablabum\ 8 Keegen\ 9 Zamotic\ 10 catculation\ 11 Lumun\ 12 TacoEvent\ 13 McWizard\ 14 MrSoup\ 15 nasi_goreng\ 16 Dyskolos\ 17 Zinck\ 18 padge\ 19 monoboy\ 20 TheHobbyist\ 21 generic_computers\ 22 CluelessDude\ 23 siv9939\ 24 Blxter\ 25 BrikoX\ 26 possiblylinux127\ 27 moncharleskey\ 28 Cethin\ 29 Marty_TF\ 30 errror\ 31 locuester\ 32 oyenyaaow\ 33 Micromot\ 34 Nevloow\ 35 altima_neo\ 36 alp\ 37 Serotoninexe\ 38 TriLinder\ 39 Anonpony1\ 40 OpenPassageways\ 41 all4one\ 42 Omgboom\ 43 anti_antidote\ 44 velvetThunder\ 45 sunglocto\ 46 tar\ 47 bestonecrazy\ 48 Blisterexe\ 49 Vivendi\ 50 Osu\ 51 win95\ 52 Hathaway\ 53 tigeruppercut\ 54 TxzK\ 55 agr8lemon\ 56 gveltaine\ 57 Levsgetso\ 58 sudoroot\ 59 solarvector\ 60 mill_city\ 61 RedDoozer\ 62 unlogic\ 63 1Fuji2Taka3Nasubi\ 64 stargazingpenguin\ 65 NuXCOM_90Percent\ 66 Anxie\ 67 Zorcron\ 68 Sivilian\ 69 GregorGizeh\ 70 Poltergeist\ 71 regitseroms\ 72 felsiq\ 73 Nadaph\ 74 Chronographs\ 75 Sensitivezombie\ 76 rolofox\ 77 daudix\ 78 CaptainAmeristan\ 79 dch82\ 80 infrasoundxp\ 81 lazorne\ 82 HeavyRaptor\ 83 Crozekiel\ 84 Gingerino\ 85 Cxyz\ 86 Primer81\ 87 nebula42\ 88 Dempf\ 89 noli\ 90 lazyhazy\ 91 diminou\ 92 rayf\ 93 solsangraal\ 94 TranquilTurbulence\ 95 dabster291\ 96 arthur\ 97 WeirdAlex03\ 98 ristoril_zip\ 99 Water_Melon_boy\ 100 Cyro\ 101 Clandestine\ 102 Blizzard\ 103 Vlyn\ 104 tri_poloski\ 105 sarmale\ 106 Geologist\ 107 auzas_1337\ 108 sheev\ 109 Dulus_No\ 110 AlexPewMaster\ 111 anothermember\ 112 Eramidik
Thanks to everyone that entered and congrats to the winners!
Starfield's first expansion, Shattered Space, now has its first trailer, and its leaning into cosmic horror.
With the release of Lemmy version 0.19.4 we'll look to upgrade ASAP (unless any issues pop up between now and then).
There is a DB upgrade so definitely going to be significant downtime during this window.
Please keep an eye on status.lemmy.zip during this time.
Hi All!
This month marks the 1st birthday of Lemmy.zip. Originally intended as a side project, I think I've ended up spending more time on this site than my actual job.
June 10th is the official anniversary, and so we'll be doing a small giveaway on this day to celebrate.
In the meantime, lets have a look at how things went in May.
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Communities
This month, I want to focus on the existing abandoned communities we have that have the potential to really grow.
- Tesla (152 Subscribers)
- Playstation (570 Subscribers)
- Xbox (198 Subscribers)
- Apple (438 Subscribers)
- Star Trek (165 subscribers)
If you fancy becoming a mod of one of these communities, please let me know.
We'll also be doing some form of community tidying up over the next couple of weeks, so we'll be checking with mods if they want to keep unused communities or if we can remove them/put them back out to other mods.
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Server Updates
Other than a small bit of downtime caused by me, the server has been stable as a rock this past month, with most of the work being carried out on keeping the various services we use up to date.
The extended downtime during the maintenance window (and extension of said maintenance window) was due to the backup process not correctly handling old snapshots. All the backups were safe and offsite, but a lock on the repo wasn't cleared and so the process the server normally follows where it cleans up old snapshots wasn't firing, causing extra storage space to be used up. In order to clear it, the server needed some time where files weren't being altered, so I temporarily took lemmy offline in order to let the tool do its thing, which lasted for about 40 minutes. Thankfully that shouldn't happen again, and wasn't technically the end of the world either as we were still getting daily offsite backups, but was very inconvenient!
We're waiting a lot on the next version of Lemmy to be released (0.19.4) which should hopefully be soon. In the meantime, I've been going back over Zippybot's code, tidying up various bits and pieces and trying out different things we can add to make Lemmy a better overall experience. For example, we now send a rejection message if we decline an account, unlike the default experience which is just to ghost the user. Thankfully we don't need to do this much, but hopefully it guides genuine new users to get in touch if they feel we've made a mistake (which we might do, we're only human!)
We're also exploring making bans more transparent. We really don't issue many bans to our own users at all, as you can see from the mod log. When we do though, there isn't really a way for that person to know why they were banned if they're not aware of the log. So we want to use the same technology as we use for sending application rejections and also send emails to let someone know why and for how long they were banned, and most importantly how to appeal. Again, we really don't issue that many bans to our users, but I feel people need a clear and simple way to get in touch if they don't think we've been fair.
We have also put up some new front ends that people can use if they fancy trying something new:
- t.lemmy.zip - Tesseract - This is a fork of Photon (which is our current mobile site) except that it has quite a few extra features built in. Take a look if you're primarily on mobile!
- a.lemmy.zip - Alexandrite - An alternative Lemmy desktop experience.
If there are any other front ends you'd like to see, let us know!
Interaction reminder (help support the instance!)
If you’re new to Lemmy.zip - WELCOME! I hope you’re enjoying your time here :)
I am sure that long term readers are bored of reading this now, but it is really is true that the easiest way you can support Lemmy.zip is to actively engage with content here: upvoting content you enjoy, sharing your thoughts through posts and comments, sparking meaningful discussions, or even creating new communities that resonate with your interests.
It’s natural to see fluctuations in user activity over time, and we’ve seen this over the wider lemmy-verse for some time now. However, if you’ve found a home here and love this space, now is the perfect opportunity to help us thrive.
If you want to support us in a different way than financially, then actively interacting with the instance helps us out loads.
Please don't be a lurker! :)
---
Donations
Lemmy.zip only continues to exist because of the generous donations of its users. The operating cost of Lemmy.zip is over 50 euros a month ($54, £43) and is mostly funded by the community!
We keep all the details around donations on our OpenCollective page, with full transparency around income and expenditure.
If you're enjoying Lemmy.zip, please check out the OpenCollective page, we have a selection of one-off or recurring donation options. All funds go directly to hosting the site and keeping the virtual lights on.
We continue to have some really kind and generous donators and I can't express my thanks enough. You can see all the kind donators in the Thank You thread - you could get your name in there too!
I am also looking at future fundraiser ideas (fundraiser committee anyone!) - if you have any ideas please let me know either in the comments, via PM, or on Matrix.
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Graph time!
Here are some graphs from the server and from cloudflare etc. This paints a picture of server usage and traffic to Lemmy.zip.
CPU Usage over the last 30 days:
RAM usage over 30 days: (PS this is perfectly fine, the drop is where the server was offline during the update, the fluctuation is normal)
Image storage:
Cloudflare overview:
Traffic/requests:
Bandwidth:
Unique visitors: (this is an increase on last month) !
Global traffic:
Another relatively stable month (other than a slightly funky maintenance window) - maybe this will be the norm now!
Remember to check back in on the 10th June to celebrate our 1st birthday :)
Cheers,
Demigodrick
After much unexpected delay, the updates to the server have been completed. Apologies for the downtime!
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Important edit: This is still ongoing, so the window is extended to 13:30 UTC. Sorry for the downtime. Please expect more downtime.
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Time to update the server again. While I don't expect loads of downtime, there will be a 1 hour window where things might be offline. Please keep an eye on status.lemmy.zip if you're likely to be browsing the site during this time.
Immigration staff are in training to put detainees on to planes - but will the Rwanda plan survive the election?
In a rainy Downing Street, the PM says he is "guided by doing what is right for our country, not what is easy".
This community is looking for a mod!
If you think that would be something you'd like to try (you don't need to be a lemmy.zip user either!) drop me a message or let me know below.
This poor community was abandoned - if you fancy looking after it just let me know :)
Hello all, welcome to the May server update!
Lets have a look back at what has happened over the last month, and what could be happening into the future.
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New Communities
We've had a few new communities pop up, please check them out, interact with them, and give them a subscribe!
There are also some existing communities that are looking for mods. Fancy trying out being a mod with a pre-existing community? Now is your chance!
- Tesla (142 Subscribers)
- Playstation (547 Subscribers)
- Xbox (185 Subscribers)
- Apple (391 Subscribers)
- Star Trek (159 subscribers)
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Server Updates
We've been on our new server over a month now, with amazing performance, and no downtime (outside of planned maintenance!).
This has allowed me more time to look at the secondary services and less time intervening in restarting a broken server.
To that end, I have started a collection of Mod Tools that are built into Lemmy.zip in this thread. Lemmy doesn't really come with any tools outside of the report button, so I've been trying to build the tools that I think help support mods but also make our communities friendly places to be. I think very early on there was a general consensus that moderation shouldn't be automated and I've tried to stick to that ethos wherever possible. There are no tools that take moderation actions without a community mod or an Admin stepping in to review first.
I will continue to add more tools as I am able to get them tested and running on the site - very soon I'll have the next tool up on there which allows community mods to set their own "words" for the bot to look out for - for example, you can set it to scan for the word "bread" and every time it finds that word in a new post or comment in that community, it will generate a report for the mod. This allows mods to set their own dictionary of words they don't want to appear in their communities. (We still have an instance-wide bad words list but that works differently now, and instead lets the admins know on Matrix when a bad word has been detected - these are the sorts of words that we absolutely won't allow and/or break the law.)
Luckily our application process helps to weed out most of the spammers and bad actors. We don't generally allow spam/throwaway email addresses (Although I do fully understand why people want to use them, so we do allow email forwarding addresses - I myself use Proton's email forwarding thing all the time!).
We read each and every application message and do reject those that we feel aren't genuine (the amount of applications that just say "lemmy in" is wild) - that said, we very much do appreciate those who take the time to write something funny or personal in them, and they do brighten our day!
Ps - thanks to those who have helped to test these tools out and iron out the bugs!
Over the next month I think we'll see Lemmy 0.19.4 released, bringing with it a bunch of new updates and fixes.
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Interaction reminder (help support the instance!)
If you’re new to Lemmy.zip - WELCOME! I hope you’re enjoying your time here :)
I just want to let everyone know that the easiest way you can support Lemmy.zip is to actively engage with content here: upvoting content you enjoy, sharing your thoughts through posts and comments, sparking meaningful discussions, or even creating new communities that resonate with your interests.
It’s natural to see fluctuations in user activity over time, and we’ve seen this over the wider lemmy-verse for some time now. However, if you’ve found a home here and love this space, now is the perfect opportunity to help us thrive.
If you want to support us in a different way than financially, then actively interacting with the instance helps us out loads.
Please don't be a lurker! :)
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Donations
Lemmy.zip only continues to exist because of the generous donations of its users. The operating cost of Lemmy.zip has now tipped over 50 euros a month ($54, £43) and is mostly funded by the community!
We keep all the details around donations on our OpenCollective page, with full transparency around income and expenditure.
If you're enjoying Lemmy.zip, please check out the OpenCollective page, we have a selection of one-off or recurring donation options. All funds go directly to hosting the site and keeping the virtual lights on.
We continue to have some really kind and generous donators and I can't express my thanks enough. You can see all the kind donators in the Thank You thread - you could get your name in there too!
I am also looking at future fundraiser ideas (fundraiser committee anyone!) - if you have any ideas please let me know either in the comments, via PM, or on Matrix.
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Graph time!
Due to a (now fixed) issue with Prometheus, I can't show you the full 30 days of the server performance. Instead, the CPU/RAM are over the last 7 days.
Instead, have a bonus image of the current server details as I type this:
Now to the usual stats:
CPU - Yes, we're not using very much at all.
RAM - I'm pretty happy with this, the performance is exactly where I want it to be.
Image hosting:
Cloudflare overview for the last 30 days:
Requests over 30 days:
Bandwidth over 30 days:
Unique visitors over 30 days:
Traffic: (I don't know whats happened in Singapore to drive up traffic - popular fediverse server maybe?) Finland is where Lemmy.world is hosted (along with Lemm.ee and Lemmy.zip!) which is why we see so much traffic from there.
So that's it for a relatively stable April - We'll see what happens in May!
As always if there is anything else you'd like to see I am happy to add it in, just let me know.
PS - next time I do one of these we'll be only a few days short of 1 year old!!!
Thanks
Demigodrick