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- Do we have an inactive mod policy, or something like RedditRequest?
There's no communities I think need better moderation, or any that have no active mods (that I know of), but if there is one day, can somebody make a request to have ownership or moderation powers transferred over to them?
- Lemmy 0.19.4
Hey all, following the work over the weekend we're now running Lemmy 0.19.4. please post any comments, questions, feedback or issues in this thread.
One of the major features added has been the ability to proxy third party images, which I've enabled. I'll be keeping a closer eye on our server utilisation to see how this goes...
- Maintenance
This weekend I'll be working to upgrade AZ to lemmy 0.19.4, which requires changes to some other back end supporting systems.
Expect occasional errors/slowdowns, broken images etc.
Once complete, I'll be making further changes to enable/tweak some of the new features.
UPDATE: one of the back end component upgrades requires dumping and reimporting the entire lemmy database. This will require ~1 hour of total downtime for the site. I expect this to kick off tonight ~9pm Perth time.
UPDATE2: DB dump/re-import going to happen ~6pm Perth time, ie about 10 minutes from this edit.
UPDATGE3: we're back after the postgres upgrade. Next will be a brief outage for the lemmy upgrade itself... after I've had dinner ๐
UPDATE34: We're on lemmy 0.19.4 now. I'll be looking at new features/settings and playing around with them.
- Are there any updates on the ongoing federation delays with lemmy.world?
I know there's been a few posts about this before, but it's been a month since the last one and it's still ongoing. It doesn't seem that any of the LW admins responded to Zag's post on their help community, and the last response from lodion/Nath I'm aware of was from 4 months ago when there were outright federation failures as opposed to just lengthy delays.
@Nothing4You@programming.dev posted a comment on the post from last month about the delays stating that it's an issue on our end as our server isn't keeping up. I'm not sure whether this is the case or not, and I'm not sure how to interpret the Grafana dashboard they linked to, but as it's a new reply on an old post, I wanted to note it.
Current federation delays seem to be around 7 days. It doesn't seem to be affecting posts themselves on Lemmy.world communities, but does affect all replies to them (even from users on other instances), and all upvotes on the posts. [Edit: on further investigation, this isn't the case. The current delays are at least 13 days, and this does actually affect posts too]
I don't want to sound too pushy, since the LW admins and Lodion/Nath are all volunteers, but I was hoping we might be able to get an update on what the cause is, and if it's an issue in Lemmy itself, if anybody's opened an issue on GitHub and the developers are aware.
(NB: I don't interact that much with LW, so all of my testing has been on the Boost for Lemmy community.)
- aussie zone's anniverssary date?
Hey all, can anyone tell me the date we're gona land on for the first anniverssary?
I guess it'll be when the instance was spun up? Or i don't know, maybe when it was a twinkle in Lodion's eye?
- Nerd Update 20/4/24
Its been a little while since I posted stuff :)
Comments: Not much has changed in quite a while. I still have a cron-job running to restart Lemmy every day due to memory leaks, hopefully this improves with future updates. Outside of that, CPU, memory and network usage are fine. Object storage usage is growing steadily, but we're a long way from paying more than the monthly minimum Wasabi fee.
- How's the server going?
I know when things first kicked off we would get server updates semi-regularly such as finances and server load. I canโt say Iโve seen one for a while, just wondering how things are going?
- Why do comments from lemmy.world users not appear until 4 days later?aussie.zone Why do comments from lemmy.world users not appear until 4 days later? - Aussie Zone
Itโs a recurring issue and has been for weeks now. The most recent one I noticed was this comment [https://aussie.zone/comment/8448537], which despite being tagged 4 days ago, only just recently appeared in my inbox. A while ago it was only 2 days, but the problem seems to be getting worse and worse...
Posted a query in the LW support channel to see if anyone there has any idea.
- Federation delays with lemmy.world, again
Just thought I'd give people a heads-up. I've just noticed some upvotes and posts haven't federated from lemmy.world to aussie.zone .
Hopefully it's just delays again, and they'll work their way through the queue reasonably soon.
- Federation schmederation issues
Comments, votes don't appear to be federating for one of the last posts I made over at !workreform@lemmy.world.
https://aussie.zone/post/7871931
https://lemmy.world/post/13089616
- Tech community
Can we get a tech com please? I don't mind modding. I know the bigger insts have very large tech coms but I figure a place for locals to post about tech without the whole fv watching could also come in handy. Probably best to call it technology but I don't mind tech either. Whatever yall want to roll with.
- Ongoing federation issues
I'm still seeing cases where comments don't seem to be federating correctly. For example:
| Other instance | aussie.zone | | ---- | ---- | | https://lemmy.world/comment/6786498 | https://aussie.zone/comment/5886332 | | https://feddit.uk/post/6819925 | https://aussie.zone/post/6020867 | | https://lemmy.ml/comment/7476880 | https://aussie.zone/comment/5881947 | | https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/5759107 | https://aussie.zone/comment/5888459 | | https://midwest.social/comment/6313276 | https://aussie.zone/comment/5889962 |
I'm not sure what the cause is, but the last few days it seems more of my comments are failing to federate than are succeeding.
Hopefully this will be the end of our federation woes
- Should we defederate hexbear?
Weโve already defederated one tanky instance, and frankly I think Iโve rarely had a positive interaction with Hexbear users. Their defence of Russiaโs invasion of Ukraine, or of Chinaโs genocide against the Uighur people, is hard enough to stomach. But what prompted me to post this is their commentary in this thread where even without any of the propaganda-based reasons to justify their beliefs, they seem to delight in being rude arseholes to people.
Personally, I donโt think they provide us any real value, no weโd be better off without them, just as we are better off without lemmygrad and exploding-heads.
- Current issues (lemmy 0.19)
The upgrade to lemmy 0.19 has introduced some issues that are being investigated.. but we currently have no fixes for:
- thumbnails break after a time. Caused by memory exhaustion killing object storage processes.
- messages to/from lemmy instance not yet running 0.19 are not federating. I believe it requires bugfixes by the devs.
~~I've re-enabled 2 hourly lemmy restarts. Hopefully this will help with both issues, though it will result in a disruption to the site around every couple of hours.
When the hourly restarts are disabled I'll unpin this post. As any other issues are identified I'll post them here too. ~~
Update: I've disabled the 2 hourly restart after upgrading to 0.19.2... lets see how this goes...
Update2: no issues seen since the upgrade, looks to have resolved both the memory leak and the federation issues. Hooray :)
- Federation with <0.19.1 Instances - *updated by u/lodion*
Usually I post to slrpnk.net and they are currently on 0.18.5. None of my posts/comments (2 posts, 1 comment) are federating.
Just letting you know if anyone here is posting to non-updated instances, it's possible they aren't going through. Yet completely possible they are. Who knows with this federation business.
I'm going to go to the
WinchesterEngadine Maccas,grab a schoonershit my pants and wait for this to all blow over. - Lemmy 0.19 Upgrade
I'll be restarting AZ today for an update to lemmy 0.19.Upgrade complete.
This is a major upgrade, so I expect there to be some issues. Strap in, enjoy the ride.
Expect:
- further restarts
- bugs
- slowdowns
- logouts
- 2FA being disabled
- possibly issues with images, upgrading pictrs to 0.4 at the same time
- Are we going to upgrade to lemmy 0.19?
Are there plans to switch to lemmy 0.19? we are still on 0.18.4, and the new version seems to have alot of useful features. Are there any problems stopping us from updating?
- Please defederate from threads.net
Meta threads will open federation to the fediverse soon, and while this is mainly to mastodon it will still affect lemmy. They are acting like they won't be evil, but let's be real this is Facebook when have they ever done that.
This article which has been trending lately explains some of the issues. https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html
This comment here is a simple analogy if you can't be bothered reading the article. https://lemmy.ca/comment/5702922
@lodion@aussie.zone
- Question about subscribers
This isn't a question specifically about aussie.zone, per se, but I'm a bit confused about how subscriber numbers work on Lemmy. I often see a community that says it only has 40 or whatever subscribers, but then posts get hundreds of upvotes. So is the member number shown on communities just counting subscribers from our instance?
- Slow lately
I noticed recently there's some slowness in the mornings. Things taking a while to load. Comments failing due to timeout etc.
When I switch to another instance everything works again so pretty sure it's not my internet.
Is there anything we can do or help with? Are there DOS or bot shenanigans going on?
- Another community request
Heya, could we get a SydneyTrains community created please? Thanks
- Can I please get a community created?
I used to run R/BrisbaneTrains on spez's bullshit playground. Wondering if I can run it here.
- Upgrade complete
I'm kicking off a storage upgrade on the server, expect it to proceed in the next 15 minutes and be back online shortly after.
- Doubt re: blocking entire instances
Hi,
I was curious, after seeing quite a few spam posts originate from one particular instance, is there a way that I, as a user, can block instances, so that their users' posts don't appear on my feed completely?
Cheers
- Email notifications no longer active?
I haven't received email notifications for the last 48ish hours, and they aren't in the spam folder. Is email broken for the moment, or has Gmail just decided to ignore aussie.zone completely for whatever reason?
- World Lemmy Maplemmymap.feddit.de Lemmymap - a lemmy federation map
a fediverse federation map for the lemmy network
- Seeing posts more than once.
How to go about not having posts repeat? I have tried Connect, jerboa and sync apps on android and often find myself somehow back at the top of a long list of posts that I have already seen. I don't want to see posts that have left the top of my screen unless I scroll backwards. The connect app with its 'hide all above posts' option comes close to what I want but is not automatic. I sort by new if that helps. What am I missing?
- Financials August 2023
Here we are, another month down.. still kicking ๐
As usual Iโm stating full dollar figures for simplicity, but theyโre all rounded/approximate to the dollar. Iโm not an accountant and its close enough for our purposes.
Income
$98 AUD thanks to 13 generous donors
Expenses
$45 OVH server fees $10 ($~6 USD)Wasabi object storage $39 ($25 USD) Domain registration extended to 6th August 2025 = $94
Balance
+$486 carried forward from July +$98 income for August -$94 expenses paid in August = $490 current balance
Future
Baseline storage on the server is now at ~70% at the low point of the day, time permitting I'll upgrade shortly to ensure sufficient room for growth. Doubling the current storage will cost an additional ~$12 per month.
THANK YOU
to everyone that has contributed to the running costs of the site.
A very special thank you to @Nath@aussie.zone for everything he's doing here, both in public and behind the scenes. Without his help performing admin and moderator activities, this place would be a shambles. I've simply been too busy professionally and personally to pay as much attention as I need to. Thanks Nath, I (and I'm sure everyone else here) appreciate it ๐ค
As always, if you have any questions please ask.
- Broken images
Due to some disgusting behaviour, I've kicked off the process of deleting ALL images uploaded in the last day.
You will likely see broken images etc on aussie.zone for posts/comments during this period of time.
Apologies for the inconvenience, but this is pretty much the nightmare scenario for an instance. I'd rather nuke all images ever than to host such content.
- While the news has been all about lemm.ee reaching second-largest status in the Fediverse, check out aussie.zone comment countsthe-federation.info The Federation - a statistics hub
Node list and statistics for The Federation and Fediverse
We aren't really a big instance. We don't even make the top-20. Where we really hit above our weight though is our comment count.
We are medium in size, but we are super engaged.
- Looking for a new home... Federation policy?
I joined .world before aussie.zone was a thing. Now with them banning all the piracy communities it seems a slippery slope for all other kinds of discussions too.
I'm Australian. Aussies are notorious pirates. Does aussie.zone have plans to also defederate dbzer0 etc?
Just want some clarity before moving here.
Thanks!
- Nerd update 13/8/23
CPU:
Memory:
Network:
! The one spike here is from a DB backup being uploaded to object storage, prior to the upgrade to 0.18.4.
Storage:
Still ok here. You can see the daily minimum free space increase as I tweak the local cache for object storage.
Cloudflare caching:
Summary:
Nothing of note here. Once baseline storage hits ~70% and I decreasing the object storage retention period is no longer worthwhile, I'll upgrade the server for more storage.
- Active Users Charts
I missed @judasferret@aussie.zone's updates so here are the couple that matter.
From here: https://the-federation.info/node/details/50624
- Financials - July 2023
Sorry this is a little late, I've been busy with real life this week.
I'm stating full dollar figures for simplicity, but they're all rounded/approximate to the dollar. I'm not an accountant and its close enough for our purposes.
Income
$267 AUD thanks to 25 generous donors, it is very much appreciated.
Expenses
$34 OVH server fees. Lower than normal, as OVH seem to switch services to calendar based rather than anniversary based from the second month. The July billing period covered 8 July - 31 July, August will be 1-31. $40 Cloudflare. Due to huge volumes of egress traffic from Cloudflare in early July, I opted to pay for a month of premium in order to investigate. The cause was found and remediated. I've since dropped back to the free plan.
Balance
$193 surplus from July (Income - Expenses) $293 carried forward from June = $486 current balance
Future
Wasabi's trial period expired on the 8th of July, so the first bill is due this month.
Domain registration, I'll be looking to extend by another year and keep it so that we always have at least 12 months paid up.
Server storage, I expect we'll need to upgrade for additional storage this month. With this upgrade I'll consider pre-paying/committing to the server for a longer period of time. This provides both a discount, and certainty to everyone that the money is put to good use.
THANK YOU
..again, to our generous donors. The offer of an @aussie.zone email address redirect is still open to any donors.
As always, if you have any questions please ask.