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.
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 😄
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.
We run the database and backend on a ax161 on Hetzner. The media is in Wasabi. The alt uis run on a cloud vps.