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New Delta Chat (Chatmail) relay (chat.in-the.eu)

submitted 2 weeks ago by ruud@lemmy.world to c/delta_chat@lemmy.zip

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I setup a chatmail relay yesterday, so if you want to try Delta Chat (or other compatible apps like Arcane), go ahead!

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Camo & Krooked & Christian Kolonovits - Red Bull Symphonic Johann Strauss 2025 Edition | UKF On Air (www.youtube.com)

submitted 2 months ago by ruud@lemmy.world to c/drumandbass@lemmy.world

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This is totally awesome, Drum n Bass with a symphonic orchestra.

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Database server migration Sat 11-10-2025 Update: Finished (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by ruud@lemmy.world to c/friendicaworld@lemmy.world

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This Saturday we will move the Friendica.World database to a new server. The current server's disks were full and couldn't be extended.

We will start at around 19:30 CEST (https://www.inyourowntime.zone/2025-10-11_19.30_Europe.Amsterdam)

Update 11-10-2025

We have run a rsync of the database, but when running a second rsync, we noticed this still takes many hours. So we decided to bring down friendica.world now (11:15 CEST) so the rsync of the data will be finished this evening.

There was no time to find another solution like database replication, because the disk will be full after this weekend.

Second update 11-10-2025

The database migration was finished, and after it was checked that all was running fine, we also did the upgrade to Friendica 2025.07-rc Everything seems to run OK. From here, we will do further troubleshooting into performance issues that still exist. Also, we plan to add 1 or 2 extra VMs for the frontend.

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MacOS 26 Tahoe - Network issue after upgrade - solution (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by ruud@lemmy.world to c/apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world

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I just upgraded my Macbook Pro to MacOS 26 Tahoe, and after that I didn't have internet connection anymore. It was connected to the wi-fi, but couldn't reach the internet or my network.

In my case, this seemed to be caused by Little Snitch, which I had installed. I disabled it by removing it under Settings > Network > Filters (and I removed the program as well just to be sure), and after a reboot the internet was back.

I hope this helps anyone with the same issue.

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September 2025: Updates for the .worlds and call for donations (blog.mastodon.world)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by ruud@lemmy.world to c/support@lemmy.world

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The latest blog post about our .world and the Fedihosting Foundation. As you can read in the blog, the donations are no longer covering our running costs. If you are able to spare a few Euro's or dollars or whatever currency, please check the list of our donation platforms in the blog.

Edit: I will add these to the blog: https://bunq.me/fhf (for EU bank transfers) https://github.com/sponsors/Fedihosting-Foundation (Github Sponsor)

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Tip to avoid time-outs (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by ruud@lemmy.world to c/friendicaworld@lemmy.world

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The default page for Friendica is the 'Network' page (https://friendica.world/network), but that loads very slow, almost always getting into a time-out.

Going to other pages mostly works, for example https://friendica.world/community

I have now enabled the 'Startpage' addon, where you can set the page you want as the default landing after logging in. I have set it to 'community'. You can change it here: https://friendica.world/settings/addons

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Maintenance 30-06-2025 (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by ruud@lemmy.world to c/friendicaworld@lemmy.world

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We are trying to get the latest RC version (2025.07-RC) of Friendica installed today. Taking an extra backup of the DB is taking some time.

Update: The upgrade has been tested but we ran into an issue, which we filed here: https://github.com/friendica/friendica/issues/14998

We have taken the opportunity to optimize the database, and have now restarted friendica.world awaiting a solution to the issue before we upgrade.

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Current status of Friendica.World (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by ruud@lemmy.world to c/friendicaworld@lemmy.world

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At this moment, friendica.world is not stable. You can experience 504 or 503 errors, or just be unable to load the site.

This is being worked on. We'll keep track of the currently known issues in this post.

Database query tuning

One of the main issues at the moment is the database hanging with many inefficient queries running for minutes or even hours. Most of them are using an inefficient 'NOT IN' or similar construction. We've created an issue for that here: https://github.com/friendica/friendica/issues/14947

Also we've created an issue for many updates to a key-value table: https://github.com/friendica/friendica/issues/14948

Update 30-06-2025

The beforementioned issues were closed, we'll upgrade to 2025.07-RC in order to get the latest fixes and do troubleshooting from there. We'll send the slow qeury logs to the devs.

Update 03-10-2025

It has been a while, so here's a long overdue update. In the last update I mentioned installing 2025.07-RC, which we did in test. But we noticed it broke the media (S3 plugin).
This issue has been raised, and it seems it has been fixed but not yet pushed (see https://github.com/friendica/friendica/pull/15158#issuecomment-3289713892). Looks like it's close. If this has been fixed, we can re-try installing the update on test, and if it works, on prod.

We're now looking into another issue, which is the diskspace running out. Partly because of performance issues with cleanup jobs, the database is growing very rapidly. And as this is a physical server, we can't easily extend storage. So we're looking into options to extend the space without introducing a big extra cost.

Update 05-10-2025

We have ordered extra disks for the DB server.

Update 06-10-2025

Apparently this server only had room for 1 extra disk. We need 2 extra disks, so we can mirror them. We now decided to get a 'new' auction server for Friendica's database, with more disk. The server we ordered also has more CPU cores and RAM so that's a bonus.

We'll migrate the database soon, and will announce the downtime here.

Update 08-10-2025

Two updates:

We've planned the db migration for this Saturday Oct 11th.
A PR is ready which fixed the issue with the S3 addon for the Friendica update. We've tested this fix on the Dev instance and it works. Once the PR is merged and the docker image updated, we can upgrade prod.

Update 04-11-2025

The database has been migrated to the larger server, and today we also rescaled the 2 app servers to a larger plan, so they have double CPU and RAM.

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DJ Hidden presents The Snares - The Hardest Drum n Bass - 2025 (www.youtube.com)

submitted 9 months ago by ruud@lemmy.world to c/drumandbass@lemmy.world

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FHF/LW Blog post for August 2024 (and July.. and June.. and... so on) (blog.mastodon.world)

submitted 1 year ago by ruud@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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Finally a new blog post about all our instances and the finances..

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Canvas in 30 days 👀 (canvas.fediverse.events)

submitted 2 years ago by ruud@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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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)

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Happy Cake Day, Lemmy.World! (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by ruud@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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Woo-hoo today's my cake-day on Lemmy.world.. actually I'm the first here but many will follow the next days. Happy cake day to you all!

Lemmy.World Junior Cloud Engineer by ruud in c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

[-] ruud@lemmy.world 520 points 2 years ago

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.

Defederated from Feddit.nl. Update: Refederated! by ruud in c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

[-] ruud@lemmy.world 137 points 2 years ago

Well .world is also managed partly from NL :-)

lemmy.ml is getting nothing new from lemmy.world, seem cut off since Saturday EDIT: fixed on Wednesday by ruud in c/fediverse@lemmy.world

[-] ruud@lemmy.world 109 points 2 years ago

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!) :-)

As requested: https://old.lemmy.world (MLMYM) by ruud in c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

[-] ruud@lemmy.world 114 points 2 years ago

Ask in their GitHub repo.

There's a person who is spam creating hundreds of communites with impossibly long descriptions on world, why haven't they been banned yet? by ruud in c/support@lemmy.world

[-] ruud@lemmy.world 355 points 2 years ago

The user was banned immediately. Also rate limiting has been put in place on community creation. (Removing the communities takes some time however..)

Lemmy.world updated to 0.18.1 by ruud in c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

[-] ruud@lemmy.world 125 points 2 years ago

Ooh I need to check the size of the custom emoji 😄

Lemmy.world status update 2023-07-05 by ruud in c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

[-] ruud@lemmy.world 94 points 2 years ago

Hmm. Seems to work for me.. (Yes this is a test reply)

How quickly will a lemmy instance eat up storage? by ruud in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

[-] ruud@lemmy.world 276 points 2 years ago

This is lemmy.world after 4 weeks:

58G	pictrs
34G	postgres

Defederate lemmynsfw.com? by ruud in c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

[-] ruud@lemmy.world 131 points 2 years ago

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.

Lemmy controversy? by ruud in c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

[-] ruud@lemmy.world 95 points 2 years ago

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..

IPv6 support for lemmy.world? by ruud in c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

[-] ruud@lemmy.world 117 points 2 years ago

Yes, on the to-do list! Thanks!

How is lemmyworld so stable? by ruud in c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

[-] ruud@lemmy.world 323 points 2 years ago

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.