[-] QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 4 points 15 hours ago

I am getting some good vibes from the sopuli.xyz instance over the last months. Also some good quality memes. Why is that so?

As an instance admin, I have to admit that I have no idea. I made clear rules to follow, appointed enough moderators for communities and made sure that any content against the rules gets removed. And of course made sure that this instance's performance is at a good level. I do my job. One reason could be that as a smaller instance, Sopuli stays out of any big drama that has been going on with the biggest Lemmy instances.

But otherwise, I'd like to hear how the users answer this question.

[-] QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 4 points 20 hours ago

But Trump and Jong-Un already "fell in love" several years ago! Shouldn't they just marry already? https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2018/09/30/trump-kim-jong-un-fell-in-love-west-virginia-rally-bts-vpx.cnn

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Damn this is just sad. Abbath has been battling various health problems and addictions for some time. Like, Azazel's frontman Lord Satanacchia was drunk as fuck in that viral video from their 2017 Steelfest gig, but at least the band finished their set.

And in case you fellas need some context: https://chaoszine.net/the-bad-luck-of-saarihelvetti-abbath-and-more-cancel-performances/

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[-] QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

Okay, I say that is a lot more concise definition for what you're aiming for. When a website declares to be for "free speech", it carries a certain connotation these days. Look what Twitter has become after it got bought by Elon Musk and turned into a "free speech website" for example. And good that a line has been drawn so that bigotry isn't allowed.

[-] QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 days ago

What is your definition of free speech?

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Well, that was awkward.

It was a normal Tuesday otherwise. However, somewhere around 21:00 (Finnish time, UTC +2) Sopuli went offline due to a sudden database problem. It wasn't a problem I could fix immediately, so I decided to wait until the next day. @MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz helped me once again, and with his help we looked at the problem, and the database was restored from a backup made at 18:00 on Tuesday. Great thanks to him!

Because of the time gap, new data from 18:00 UTC+2 to 21:00 UTC+2 wasn't recoverable. I doubt there was an Internet equivalent to James Joyce's Ulysses among the data, but this has to be mentioned. This may affect federating posts and comments to other instances.

There was no way to just ignore an instance this active being offline for this long and move on. For normal users it creates uncertainty and for admins solving it may sometimes be nerve-wracking. I hope you all have been patient. After all, Sopuli hadn't been offline this long for over two years. The last time was in June 2024 when Sopuli was migrated from Hetzner's VPS to dedicated server hardware. It also took over a day, and it was surely nerve-wracking for me. All the effort was worth it, and because of improved website performance, long downtime has been an exception ever since.

This was unexpected downtime, but hopefully anything like this won't happen again for a really long time.

As always, you can get information about possible downtime by following me on Mastodon or by joining Sopuli's Matrix space.

Hope you all have a good day! (Or night, when I am writing this)


Noh, tämäpä oli noloa.

Se oli muuten normaali tiistai. Kuitenkin joskus klo 21 aikaan Sopuli meni pois linjoilta yhtäkkisen tietokantaongelman takia. Se ei ollut ongelma jonka olisin voinut korjata heti, minkä takia päätin odottaa seuraavaan päivään.@MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz auttoi minua taas kerran, ja hänen avullaan katsoimme ongelmaan, ja tietokanta palautettiin tiistaina klo 18 otetusta varmuuskopiosta. Paljon kiitoksia hänelle!

Varmuuskopion ja tietokannan kippaamisen välillä on toki aikaväli 18–21. Tämän takia sillä välillä syntynyttä uutta dataa ei voitu palauttaa. Epäilen tosin että sen datan joukossa oli mitään Internetin vastinetta James Joycen Odysseukselle, mutta tämä on kuitenkin mainittava. Tämä voi vaikuttaa viestien ja vastausten federoitumiseen muille instansseille.

Näin aktiivisen instanssin kaatumista ei voi mitenkään sivuuttaa ja jatkaa menoa normaalisti. Tavallisille käyttäjille se luo epävarmuutta, ja ylläpitäjille sen ratkaiseminen voi raastaa hermoja. Toivottavasti olette olleet kärsivällisiä. Sopuli ei ole kuitenkaan ollut poissa linjoilta näin pitkään yli kahteen vuoteen. Viimeisin kerta oli kesäkuussa 2024 kun Sopuli siirrettiin Hetznerin virtuaalipalvelimelta dedikoidulle palvelimelle. Siinä kesti yli päivän, ja se tosiaankin raastoi hermojani. Kaikki siihen käytetty vaiva oli kuitenkin sen arvoista, ja parantuneen suorituskyvyn takia pitkä poissaolo linjoilta on ollut siitä lähtien poikkeus.

Tämä oli odottamaton sattumus, mutta toivon että mitään tällaista ei tapahdu uudelleen todella pitkään aikaan.

Kuten aina, saatte tietoa mahdollisesta kaatumisesta seuraamalla minua Mastodonissa tai liittymällä Sopulin Matrix-tilaan.

Toivottavasti teillä kaikilla on hyvä päivä! (Tai yö, kun kirjoitan tätä)

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Damn, this is sad news. Considering how great voice he still has, I thought his health was in a similar condition. Then again, he is 75. I never got to see The Voice of Rock live.

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[-] QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 110 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I could understand hardcoded blacklists if Tesseract was meant as a frontend for a Lemmy instance tailored for a specific purpose, and not intended for general use. But this, to DDOS a website because the developer is a whiny baby who can't take criticism? This is a new low. This is disgusting, and damaging for the Lemmyverse as whole.

[-] QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 217 points 11 months ago

If anything good has come of this Israel-Palestine conflict thing, it has been exposing idiots.

[-] QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 125 points 1 year ago

"You got a loicense for that???"

[-] QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 102 points 1 year ago

Next year it will be ten years since Harambe died.

[-] QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 103 points 2 years ago

Anti-science has gained too much traction in recent years, I doubt USA will survive if H5N1 starts spreading from human to human.

[-] QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 196 points 2 years ago

"Medical freedom", the rallying cry for all kinds of grifters spreading disinformation and wanting to roll back the progress made in public health.

[-] QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 118 points 2 years ago

American politicians blaming school shootings on anything other than easy access to guns (any%)

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