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:

$ 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

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

lemmy=# select count(id) from local_user; count ------- 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 which will continue to serve us for the foreseeable future.

Previous relevant posts:

• One week update
• Full transparency and maintenance costs

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: ```

• Rust: Web Development
• Rust: Game Development
• Rust: Embedded Systems ```

Renamed: ```

• 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):

!

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): 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 1.06% 53.5MB / 1.18GB 653MB / 360MB 14

df -h: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on tmpfs 97M 1.7M 96M 2% /run /dev/vda1 24G 12G 11G 53% / 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

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 quality mobile apps

There's jerboa for Android and mlem for iOS. Both are under heavy development. Thankfully the website works fine on mobile...mostly.

PS: I'm not a lemmy maintainer, just a hobbyist self-hoster and professional Rust developer trying the fediverse as much as y'all are :)

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:

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!