So after we’ve extended the virtual cloud server twice, we’re at the max for the current configuration. And with this crazy growth (almost 12k users!!) even now the server is more and more reaching capacity.

Therefore I decided to order a dedicated server. Same one as used for mastodon.world.

So the bad news… we will need some downtime. Hopefully, not too much. I will prepare the new server, copy (rsync) stuff over, stop Lemmy, do last rsync and change the DNS. If all goes well it would take maybe 10 minutes downtime, 30 at most. (With mastodon.world it took 20 minutes, mainly because of a typo :-) )

For those who would like to donate, to cover server costs, you can do so at our OpenCollective or Patreon

Thanks!

  • Wintry@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Thank you very much. The welcome for all us reddit refugees has been really warm and it’s deeply appreciated.

  • delaghetto@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    So, I just want to make sure I understand this as I am a new user from reddit. Instances are server based and cost money. Instances are Lemmy.World, Beebaw, Lemmy.Film, etc etc. These are all seperate hosted instances. Correct?

    And donations would help pay for the server, ie lemmy.world?

    • Crackhappy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      That is correct. I’ve signed up for monthly donations to help cover costs (as well as added tip to help the admins themselves).

    • fubo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      “Lemmy instances” are analogous to “email servers”: your account is hosted on one of them, but you can communicate with people on other ones, because the servers know how to talk to each other.

      Expanding the capacity of the Lemmy service will involve both (1) more instances, and (2) more resources for existing instances.

    • ComeHereOrIHookYou@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Yes, lemmy.world, lemmy.film, beebaw and etc are other instances of Lemmy and users from other instances can interact with other instances.

      And yes donations help the server afloat.

      Pretty cool stuff.

  • Cool Beance@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    For less tech-savvy newbies (like me), in case there is some confusion affecting your urge to engage/donate… My friend gave me a great explanation:

    • Lemmy the platform is planet Earth

    • “Instances” like lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, beehaw.org, etc. are like the different countries on Earth

    • When someone signs up, the user picks one instance to be a part of, like how an Earthling becomes a citizen of a country

    • If you register at lemmy.world, that means your home instance/ “home country” is lemmy.world, but you can “travel” to lemmy.ml, another instance / “country”, to check out and subscribe to their community

    • When you subscribe to a different instance that’s not your home instance, you can still participate in their content, and other people will be able to see which instance / “country” you’re from

    • Each instance can have its own version of the same “subreddit”, so you can have a c/Memes in your home instance that is different from a c/Memes in another instance. But you can subscribe to both separately

    • c/[community name] is the naming convention used here I think like r/[subreddit name] on Reddit. If talking about a community in a different instance, it’s c/[community name]@[instance name] so like c/memes@lemmy.ml

    • Donations will help with the cost of running lemmy.world only and not lemmy.ml, beehaw.org, etc.

    Someone please correct any of this if any of it is wrong, I’ll happily edit

    • zinklog@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
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      2 years ago

      This seems like a much better explanation for Lemmy compared to the email analogy everyone writes for non-tech savvy people.

    • slopecarver@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Is there a way to view C/Memes in all instances at once in aggregate? I don’t want to miss out on what other instances are doing.

        • slopecarver@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 years ago

          I’m new here so I might not be asking the right question. As I understand it there are many subforums one on each instance with the same exact name. Are they all shown at once while browsing? Can they be?

          I wasn’t talking about multiforums but that’s good to know too.

          • foggenbooty@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            2 years ago

            There can be multiple communities with the same name, that doesn’t mean there are. Like how yourname@gmail.com and yourname@hotmail.com are the same “name” but a different domain.

            So say for example you and your friend start up your own Lemmy instance and decide to make your own community called “Funny” where you can post jokes, without bothering to check if there was already a more popular “Funny” in someone else’s instance. There’s nothing stopping you and now there will be two communities called Funny, but one would be Funny@lemmy.world and yours would be Funny@whateveryoupicked.com

            If your “Funny” gets to be really popular too, then other people might choose to subscribe to both Funny communities, and then posts from both would be in their feed. However they are distinctly seperate and you will continue to own and run yours and lemmy.world would own theirs.

            Does that make sense? I know it’s a weird concept when you’re used to unique names in Reddit, but it’s not all that different from r/news and r/worldnews covering similar content but controlled by different people.

      • andrew@radiation.partyEnglish
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        2 years ago

        This absolutely is not true today, they create links that are absolute and refer to the host of the community in question.

          • Faceman🇦🇺@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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            2 years ago

            for a while it will result in a lot of seemingly dead links as small communities will appear as 404s until the remote instance has synced.

            Or at least that’s what i’m seeing occasionally when I try to copy/paste the communites onto my instances /c/ URL.

        • ioNabio@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 years ago

          right I was just testing it and it auto fills with absolute path using “!”. Using “@” I could only link local communities

  • Faceman🇦🇺@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Cool, lemmy.world seems to be one of the busiest with lots of new users, we should be making it clear to new users that they can sign up with ANY lemmy instance and still access lemmy.world communities though. gotta keep the load spread out.

    • zalack@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Is there any way to migrate an account? I signed up to lemmy.ml since it was the first one in the list and I didn’t really understand the model initially.

    • The dogspaw English
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      2 years ago

      Exactly like me I’m on a regional instance and still subscribed here remotely I see so many people on reddit obsessing over what server to join that they end up joing no server and getting hung up on things like trying to understand what the fediverse is an activitypub is or they get confused about mastodon vs kabin vs lemmy and so forth the fediverse in general needs to get better at explaining things in normal people language so people don’t just end up not joing

      • Mothra@mander.xyzEnglish
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        2 years ago

        Yes that’s true but it’s also to be expected, as it’s a different system and people take time to understand how things work. Go back 20 years ago and it was mostly youths on Facebook, the whole idea of it was just too complicated for most adults. Fast forward to the present day and…

        Same here, the new community will be comprised of tech savy and people who like to try new things for a while.

        • The dogspaw English
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          2 years ago

          True but i think they could explain things better for the less tech savvy people like instead of talking about email talk about language everyone that speaks English can talk to each other and different protocols are like different languages or like how instances are like bars you may have a bar you go to all the time but you can still visit other bars or call people in other bars from your bar