So somehow I can't change my display name. When I go to settings I can change the value, but when I click save and refresh, the old value is still there. I have this problem for a few weeks already, so I don't think I'm just too impatient. It seems to be similar for other settings like 2FA, but it'd especially annoying for the name, bc I now can't set my chosen name. Does anyone else have a similar problem? Do you know a workaround? Can I help fixing the problem?

I’m not sure what’s going on over there, but half the time I see a post from there or go into a comment section and it’s just…bad. Like old reddit the_donald bad. Constant trolling, etc. You TS just really bad vibes. I’ve been blocking the communities as they come up, but I’m not sure what else I can do.

Been trying to upload photos using both Firefox mobile browser & Liftoff app, but both do not appear to be working.

Does not work when attempting to upload both as a post and uploading in post body.

Checked in other instances, and I am able to upload images there.

Do I need special permissions or something? Please let me know!

I took some screenshots of error messages, but obviously I am unable to upload then, so.

User profiles and banners appear blank for me. No error or anything just blank. Both my own profile and other profiles seem to be affected. I've tried logging out, using another browser, clearing cookies and it doesn't seem to change.

Was it an update or a DDos attack?

The server will be briefly down while we install a new updated version of lemmy and restart it.

The maintenance window is 15 minutes, but should be much shorter.

This user is spamming the same comment over and over @googa@lemmy.blahaj.zone

Let me know if there is a more proper way to notify these issues.

kbin has an issue at the moment. As a software platform, it was not ready for the huge influx of users that came with the reddit migration.

As such, it doesn't have robust moderation tools, and one of the biggest issues is that an instance can only have a single admin. In the case of kbin.social, the admin is also the lead dev of the kbin software project as a whole.

I love kbin, I love the project and what it stands for, and I think ernest has created an amazing platform that I has more potential than lemmy. But in the here and now, kbin.social is woefully under moderated. It has been a large source of spam, and harbours active transphobes and transphobic communities that are effectively unmoderated.

So, Blåhaj Lemmy folk, I'm seeking your feedback. Would you rather we defederate until the kbin moderation tools are improved, or stay connected and deal with the bigotry and spam on our end as best we can?

See this thread on kbin.social for a ongoing discussion about the issue https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/304907

Edit - So far, it seems that most of the spam etc isn't making it through to people, which is great! It means we can keep things going as they are without it impacting people too much. Please use this thread to let me know if that changes though

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Please note, this discussion is intended for Blåhaj Lemmy users to provide feedback. Top Level comments made from instances other than Blåhaj Lemmy will be removed. If you are from an external instance, you are welcome to engage in the discussion, but I request that you do so in reply to other comments.

I just got this error message when trying to upload my profile picture. Like, really?

I'm trying to report a post that's an obvious ad over on !196 but the submit button is just spinning forever

Title, also I'm not sure if this post will even work if the instance is down but I figured it was worth a shot.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/1596703

Total number of pixels placed by each instance. This includes ones that have been overwritten.

Edit: Added undo section

Undo	Placed	Domain
5673	264489	lemmy.world
890	56092	feddit.de
704	35315	lemmy.blahaj.zone
510	28312	lemm.ee
369	23844	sh.itjust.works
312	22568	lemmy.ml
224	15470	lemmy.ca
223	13954	toast.ooo
165	12916	programming.dev
194	12106	lemmy.zip
218	10057	beehaw.org
92	9109	lemmy.nz
129	8186	discuss.tchncs.de
131	7039	aussie.zone
20	5980	pawb.social
82	5896	mander.xyz
21	5571	jlai.lu
62	4973	feddit.nl
10	4492	nano.garden
84	4450	lemmy.dbzer0.com
119	4413	sopuli.xyz
97	3703	startrek.website
49	3246	lemmy.fmhy.net
33	3214	feddit.ch
68	3101	ani.social
26	3100	feddit.nu
18	2906	monero.town
30	2692	lemy.lol
18	2577	lemmy.sdf.org
80	2526	feddit.it
27	2446	infosec.pub
5	2294	lemmy.henknet.org
6	2213	lemmynsfw.com
17	1941	reddthat.com
4	1820	kerala.party
24	1731	lib.lgbt
12	1726	no.lastname.nz
20	1726	lemmy.mariusdavid.fr
12	1571	slrpnk.net
38	1347	feddit.dk
2	1332	bookwormstory.social
9	1269	discuss.online
2	1239	lemmy.sidh.bzh
36	1232	fl0w.cc
9	1211	lemmy.eco.br
38	1170	geddit.social
3	1122	szmer.info
11	1118	social.dn42.us
30	1104	lemmy.one
2	985	postit.quantentoast.de
38	982	lemdro.id
1	924	burggit.moe
22	921	midwest.social
3	851	lemmy.pt
1	838	mtgzone.com
6	704	lemmy.federated.club
0	663	casavaga.com
1	603	pornlemmy.com
0	570	lemmyrs.org
20	568	yiffit.net
0	513	lemmy.shtuf.eu
0	467	lemmings.world
10	455	lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz
5	444	red.cyberhase.de
9	434	lemmy.atay.dev
1	350	lemmy.ananace.dev
24	325	monyet.cc
12	269	lemmy.johnnei.org
0	254	wired.bluemarch.art
1	233	lemmy.myserv.one
0	221	l.antiope.link
15	219	lemmy.fan
2	213	lemmy.today
1	208	pricefield.org
1	208	lemmy.douwes.co.uk
0	194	fost.hu
2	181	dubvee.org
1	158	lemmy.jigoku.us.to
0	146	lm.bittervets.org
2	136	waveform.social
0	134	lemmy.name
1	129	discuss.as200950.com
2	128	lemmy.shinomoroll.net
0	121	lemmus.org
1	119	nebu.land
0	112	lemmygrad.ml
1	107	thegarden.land
0	102	lemmy.tf
0	101	lemmy.sedimentarymountains.com
0	99	endlesstalk.org
0	95	czech-lemmy.eu
3	92	lemmy.dcmrobertson.com
0	89	lemmy.cat
1	86	lemmy.horwood.cloud
0	84	ttrpg.network
0	70	lemmy.comfysnug.space
	69	lemmy.dormedas.com
	56	etaorion.org
	55	compuverse.uk
	49	lemmy.sdfeu.org
	44	jemmy.jeena.net
	39	outpost.zeuslink.net
	38	rabbitea.rs
	37	lemmy.place
	37	lemmy.lukeog.com
	29	lemmy.studio
	24	orbiting.observer
	23	lzrprt.sbs
	13	thelemmy.club
	12	lmmy.net
	12	feddit.jcm.re
	9	lemmy.federa.net
	9	lemmy.dynatron.me
	7	lemmy.stuart.fun
	6	lemmy.felixperron.com
	6	lemm.live
	3	l.henlo.fi
	3	lemmy.tiebe.dev
	3	i.d0ntknow.me
	2	sha1.nl
	2	l.rickebo.com
	2	lm.paradisus.day
	2	lemmy.secnd.me
	2	lemmy.potatoe.ca
	2	leminal.space
	1	prxs.site
	1	lmmy.dk
	1	lemmy.timwaterhouse.com
	1	lemmy.run
	1	lemmy.loomy.li
	1	lemmy.kde.social
	1	lemmy.hoyle.me.uk

All actions:

spoiler

Actions	Instance
270946	lemmy.world
57002	feddit.de
36019	lemmy.blahaj.zone
28898	lemm.ee
24286	sh.itjust.works
22880	lemmy.ml
15694	lemmy.ca
14630	toast.ooo
13081	programming.dev
12300	lemmy.zip
10275	beehaw.org
9201	lemmy.nz
8324	discuss.tchncs.de
7170	aussie.zone
6000	pawb.social
5978	mander.xyz
5592	jlai.lu
5035	feddit.nl
4534	lemmy.dbzer0.com
4532	sopuli.xyz
4502	nano.garden
3800	startrek.website
3371	lemmy.fmhy.net
3247	feddit.ch
3169	ani.social
3126	feddit.nu
2924	monero.town
2722	lemy.lol
2606	feddit.it
2595	lemmy.sdf.org
2473	infosec.pub
2299	lemmy.henknet.org
2250	lemmynsfw.com
2038	reddthat.com
1824	kerala.party
1755	lib.lgbt
1746	lemmy.mariusdavid.fr
1738	no.lastname.nz
1583	slrpnk.net
1383	feddit.dk
1355	discuss.online
1334	bookwormstory.social
1241	lemmy.sidh.bzh
1238	fl0w.cc
1220	lemmy.eco.br
1208	geddit.social
1134	lemmy.one
1129	social.dn42.us
1125	szmer.info
1093	lemdro.id
987	postit.quantentoast.de
943	midwest.social
925	burggit.moe
854	lemmy.pt
839	mtgzone.com
710	lemmy.federated.club
663	casavaga.com
604	pornlemmy.com
588	yiffit.net
570	lemmyrs.org
513	lemmy.shtuf.eu
470	lemmings.world
457	lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz
449	red.cyberhase.de
443	lemmy.atay.dev
351	lemmy.ananace.dev
349	monyet.cc
281	lemmy.johnnei.org
254	wired.bluemarch.art
234	lemmy.myserv.one
234	lemmy.fan
221	l.antiope.link
215	lemmy.today
209	pricefield.org
209	lemmy.douwes.co.uk
194	fost.hu
183	dubvee.org
159	lemmy.jigoku.us.to
146	lm.bittervets.org
138	waveform.social
134	lemmy.name
130	discuss.as200950.com
128	lemmy.shinomoroll.net
121	lemmus.org
120	nebu.land
112	lemmygrad.ml
108	thegarden.land
102	lemmy.tf
101	lemmy.sedimentarymountains.com
99	endlesstalk.org
95	lemmy.dcmrobertson.com
95	czech-lemmy.eu
89	lemmy.cat
87	lemmy.horwood.cloud
84	ttrpg.network
70	lemmy.comfysnug.space
69	lemmy.dormedas.com
57	etaorion.org
55	compuverse.uk
49	lemmy.sdfeu.org
44	jemmy.jeena.net
42	rabbitea.rs
39	outpost.zeuslink.net
38	lemmy.lukeog.com
37	lemmy.place
29	lemmy.studio
24	orbiting.observer
23	lzrprt.sbs
18	lemmy.federa.net
13	thelemmy.club
13	feddit.jcm.re
12	lmmy.net
9	lemmy.dynatron.me
9	lemm.live
7	lemmy.stuart.fun
6	lemmy.felixperron.com
3	l.henlo.fi
3	lemmy.tiebe.dev
3	i.d0ntknow.me
2	sha1.nl
2	l.rickebo.com
2	lm.paradisus.day
2	lemmy.secnd.me
2	lemmy.potatoe.ca
2	leminal.space
1	prxs.site
1	lmmy.dk
1	lemmy.timwaterhouse.com
1	lemmy.run
1	lemmy.loomy.li
1	lemmy.kde.social
1	lemmy.hoyle.me.uk

Thank you to everyone!!

Link to canvas: https://canvas.toast.ooo

don't ask why i won't just use the lemmy.ml version (i am trying to get away from lemmy.ml as much as possible), also is that specific c/ blocked or is the intire insteance blocked. ~~.~~

Last 11hrs as of now!

Thank you to everyone who has helped!

Link to the canvas: https://canvas.toast.ooo

over at https://canvas.toast.ooo there's a weekend event for Lemmy users. It's similar to r/place, each user can place one pixel every 30 seconds. Come help add our logo!

Template: https://i.imgur.com/evRnFGN.png at location (259, 786). You can add the template for yourself by clicking the gear in the top right.

Recently the site has become full of transphobic and conspiracy garbage, as well as a campaign for Ron DeSantis.

Their admin doesn't seem to give two shits about any of this he's just letting it happen without any intervention. Defederating them would benefit this community greatly.

Is anybody interested in making something on this canvas thing?

Never participated in r/places, figured I might give it a go

not sure what instances would join

So it's been a few days, where are we now?

I also thought given the technical inclination of a lot of our users that you all might be somewhat interested in the what, how and why of our decisions here, so I've included a bit of the more techy side of things in my update.

Bandwidth

So one of the big issues we had was the heavy bandwidth caused by a massive amount of downloaded content (not in terms of storage space, but multiple people downloading the same content).

In terms of bandwidth, we were seeing the top 10 single images resulting in around 600GB+ of downloads in a 24 hour period.

This has been resolved by setting up a frontline caching server at pictrs.blahaj.zone, which is sitting on a small, unlimited 400Mbps connection, running a tiny Caddy cache that is reverse proxying to the actual lemmy server and locally caching the images in a file store on its 10TB drive. The nginx in front of lemmy is 301 redirecting internet facing static image requests to the new caching server.

This one step alone is saving over $1,500/month.

Alternate hosting

The second step is to get away from RDS and our current fixed instance hosting to a stand-alone and self-healing infrastructure. This has been what I've been doing over the last few days, setting up the new servers and configuring the new cluster.

We could be doing this cheaper with a lower cost hosting provider and a less resiliant configuration, but I'm pretty risk averse and I'm comfortable that this will be a safe configuration.

I woudn't normally recommend this setup to anyone hosting a small or single user instance, as it's a bit overkill for us at this stage, but in this case, I have decided to spin up a full production grade kubernetes cluster with a stacked etcd inside a dedicated HA control plane.

We have rented two bigger dedicated servers (64GB, 8 CPU, 2TB RAID 1, 1 GBPS bandwidth) to run our 2 databases (main/standby), redis, etc on. Then a the control plane is running on 3 smaller instances (2GB, 2 CPU each).

All up this new infrastructure will cost around $9.20/day ($275/m).

Current infrastructure

The current AWS infrastructure is still running at full spec and (minus the excess bandwidth charges) is still costing around $50/day ($1500/m).

Migration

Apart from setting up kubernetes, nothing has been migrated yet. This will be next.

The first step will be to get the databases off the AWS infrastucture first, which will be the biggest bang for buck as the RDS is costing around $34/day ($1,000/m)

The second step will be the next biggest machine which is our Hajkey instance at Blåhaj zone, currently costing around $8/day ($240/m).

Then the pictrs installation, and lemmy itself.

And finally everything else will come off and we'll shut the AWS account down.

i can finnaly accses from wefwef/voyager

Discussion of the current situation with the Blåhaj instances, and upcoming maintenance.

This instance seems to only work like half the time as of late, and when it does it's barely working. I understand if you can't pay for better servers due to this being a passion project of sorts, but it would be great if it's possible.