Well .world is also managed partly from NL :-)
I'll check the new way Lemmy detects dead servers, it's possible an outage caused lemmy.ml to think we're dead (we're not!) :-)
Ask in their GitHub repo.
The user was banned immediately. Also rate limiting has been put in place on community creation. (Removing the communities takes some time however..)
Ooh I need to check the size of the custom emoji 😄
Hmm. Seems to work for me.. (Yes this is a test reply)
This is lemmy.world after 4 weeks:
58G pictrs
34G postgres
If any illegal content would be posted there, let us know. If it's 1 community, we can block the community. If it's all over the place, we can defederate. But I see defederation as a last resort. If there are other ways to keep our server safe I prefer that.
My political views are not important, we just have a set of rules and as long as you follow these any decent polite discussion would be possible.
I'm also not going to ban !ajax@lemmy.world just because I support a different team..
Yes, on the to-do list! Thanks!
Thank you for all the compliments.
This ride reminds me of Mastodon.world in November. Details on that are here: https://blog.mastodon.world/and-then-november-happened
So I started lemmy.world on a 2CPU/4GB VPS. Keeping an eye on the performance. Soon I decided to double that. And after the first few thousand of users joined, doubled it again to 8CPU/16GB. That also was the max I could for that VPS type.
But, already I saw some donations come in, without really asking. That reminded me of the willingness to donate on Mastodon, which allowed me to easily pay for a very powerful server for mastodon.world, one of the reasons it grew so fast. Other (large) servers crashed and closed registrations, I (mainly) didn't.
So, I decided to buy the same large server (32cpu/64threads with 128GB RAM) as for masto (but that masto one has double the RAM). With the post announcing that, I also mentioned the donation possibilities. That brought a lot of donations immediately, already funding this server for at least 2 months. (To the anonymous person donating $100 : wow!).
Now next: to solve the issue with post slowness. That's probably a database issue.
And again: migration took 4 minutes downtime, and that could have been less if I wasn't eating pizza at the same time. So if any server wants to migrate: please do! If you have the userbase, you'll get the donations for it. Contact me if you have questions.
Yes, there has been quite a lot of trolls and attacks on our server, so we're very careful about who we let on the team. I'm sure you'll understand.