Sounds like the digital service tax needs to be back on, and doubled.
Not really, the tech is stable and I honestly put very little time into it. Occasionally I get bored and do something like make dashboards, but ongoing maintenance is just the occasional software update.
I'd like to move it all to k8s at some point, but it's a really low priority. Probably doesn't make sense until we start scaling to multiple machines.
I'd print it on the side, will make it stronger anyways. Less likely to lose layer adhesion.
Edit: never mind, I think this is a print in place moving piece?
Try decreasing your nozzle temp, might just be too soft.
I don't use connect, but you're probably looking at your personal instance block list rather than the instance federation details.
Single physical host running proxmox. Mix of Ubuntu vms and lxc depending how much I trust the app and if I need direct access to the underlying zfs.
Opnsense + haproxy in front, nothing connected directly.
Monthly. There were a couple yearly that I just normalized down to monthly.
No we launched with stripe, but if you look at our site you'll see we don't push it heavily since we pay more fees there.
Good idea, they all do except interac since everything routes through stripe. It's absurd the amount of transaction data they get. Thanks!
As requested, here's some additional info about donation methods / sizes / volume!
@GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca @pglpm@lemmy.ca
I like the idea of a specific fundraiser. Our post 6 months ago is what drive the big spike visible on the graphs, so I was hoping for a similar boost this time. If we don't get there naturally, I think that's a reasonable next step.
See below for your other question.
Edit: I was wrong, the big spike was Smorks transferring our old donations over. I forgot about that!
I have no problem sharing anonymized info for things like this, it's just difficult to pull.
We accept donations a few different ways, they can be one time or recurring, we don't know who people are , and we often get paid weeks after they happen once it gets reconciled by stripe.
Let me see what I can do.
Re: Lem.ee that's kinda a different problem. They weren't financial issues afaik, but admin burnout. I don't think that's a concern on our side at this time.
Two hosts would cost more in colo fees and we don't need the resources. The redundancy would be nice, but this is enterprise grade hardware covered under Dell prosupport. I also have an identical box running my home systems, so I could steal parts temporarily if we had an issue.
Yeah the ram is just what the hosts came with. It's way more than we need and so everything is very over provisioned.
Was this recently? I just pulled in some more fixes a few hours ago. It's still under very active development.
Hello everyone!
It’s time for another long-overdue update on how Fedecan and our various sites are doing. It’s been just over two years since the great Reddit migration, and in that time we’ve made some solid progress:
- Registered Fedecan.ca as a non-profit
- Moved from OVH to our own hardware in a Vancouver datacenter
- Started collaborating with the team behind sh.itjust.works
- Launched Pixelfed.ca
- Launched Piefed.ca
Finances
Here’s a look at our bank balance since we began accepting donations:
We’re currently sitting at around $2,900, with a monthly burn of about $200, which gives us roughly a year of runway. We have some additional annual costs (like domain renewals and non-profit registration), but overall we run very lean.
Fedecan still owes:
- TruckBC: $1,980
- Shadow (me): $525
These were out-of-pocket hosting and non-profit registration costs from 2023/2024. It’d be great to get those covered, but we want to keep at least a year of operating expenses in reserve.
If you're a regular user and value what we're doing, please consider donating! We have multiple ways to donate, you can find the comparison and donation links on our website: https://fedecan.ca/en/donate
Sh.itjust.works
Nothing major to report here - we’ve all been a bit busy lately, but collaboration is continuing slowly behind the scenes.
Fediverse Growth
We're seeing a healthy volume of posts and communities on lemmy.ca, surging with each Reddit drama:
Infrastructure
Our server is a Dell R7515 with an EPYC 7763, 1 TB ram and 4x 7.68tb nvme data disks, which is hosted in a datacenter in Vancouver, BC.
I spun up victoriametrics + victorialogs a few weeks ago and have been ingesting all of our data, giving us the ability to put together some nice grafana dashboards.
Everything is running great on the infrastructure side of things. Our server is barely working up a sweat and we shouldn't have to worry about scaling for a long time.
Lemmy.ca still comprises almost all of our traffic:
Lemmy.ca
Our over provisioned stack is performing well, handling the occasional lemmy / lemmy-ui dropout:
Similarly the DB is mostly running out of ram:
Our object storage is slowly climbing as expected, but we've got several years of capacity to figure out a long term solution:
I’m also doing some limited analytics on our web logs. As expected, lemmy.world makes up the majority of our federation traffic:
One interesting thing to see from the user-agent data is the breakdown of traffic by the different mobile clients:
The “dart” UA is just a common web library, Thunder reports as this and I suspect other clients do too. If you’re a client developer, please set your user-agent!
Out of the alternative web clients we support, tesseract is the most popular although the overall traffic volume is still low:
We only store 7 days of logs but I’m hoping to get these pulled out into metrics soon, since it would be interesting to track which clients / interfaces people use over time.
Pixelfed.ca
Not much to say on this one, due to using local storage it currently runs on a single VM without redundancy.
Piefed.ca
Piefed runs on a pair of VMs with its own database and object storage backends.
!Service Health !Response data
Cloudflare
If you want to compare against previous data posts, here’s our same cloudflare graphs for lemmy.ca
As always, feel free to reach out if you have any questions or ideas. Thanks for being a part of the Fediverse!
https://join-lemmy.org/news/2025-06-13_-_Lemmy_Release_0.19.12
Enjoy!
Good morning everyone. Just a quick heads up that I've banned a good chunk of IP space in China due to abusive traffic.
I've tried to restrict this where possible to datacenter blocks from Huawei, Tencent, and Alibaba, but China Telecom / Mobile were also heavy sources of suspicious traffic. I doubt we have many (if any) users in China, but if you are affected please let me know.
This has been ongoing for a while and I ignored it initially since the traffic levels were low, but it wasn't anymore.
I don't know how I missed this when it came out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoner_Cats
> Stoner Cats is a cartoon that stars Mila Kunis, Ashton Kutcher and Chris Rock as cats that use medical marijuana.[1] The show also stars Jane Fonda, Seth MacFarlane, and Vitalik Buterin with guests Dax Shepard, Gary Vaynerchuk, and Michael Bublé. The producers were fined by the US Securities and Exchange Commission because they sold unregistered NFTs as a means towards a pass to view the show
Air traffic controllers in charge of Newark again lost contact with planes on Friday, the FAA said.
I'm routinely running into an issue where if I haven't used the app in a while (a few hours), it hangs trying to connect. I then force restart and it's fine.
I was running onto this on the play store version but I'm on 0.7.0-1 now and still seeing it regularly.
Known issue? Or any suggestions on how to debug?
Leslie told Global News that they watched others undergo a thorough search, with officers opening their car doors and searching through their vehicles and trunks.
If you're still going down there for lunch / shopping, even more reasons to stop.
Elections Canada says more than 68 per cent of eligible voters cast a ballot in the federal election -- more than 19.5 million people.
OTTAWA — OTTAWA - Elections Canada says more than 68 per cent of eligible voters cast a ballot in the federal election -- more than 19.5 million people.
While this election was widely expected to see increased turnout, it did not surpass the record set in March 1958, when 79.4 per cent of eligible Canadians voted.
But the nearly 68.7 per cent turnout was the best since the 1993 federal election, which saw 69.6 per cent of eligible voters cast a ballot.
Elections Canada says early estimates indicate 11 million people voted at their polling station or in their long-term care facility on election day.
The agency says nearly 7.3 million Canadians voted at advance polls while 1.2 million voted by special ballot.
Elections Canada does not gather demographics data so it’s not clear which groups turned out to vote, but it says postelection surveys can show which groups faced barriers to voting and what can be done to address them in future elections.
The Liberal party ended the election with 43.7 per cent of the total vote and 169 seats, while the Conservative party secured 41.3 per cent of the vote and 144 seats.
The Bloc Quebecois and the NDP both took 6.3 per cent of the vote, and will hold 22 and seven seats, respectively.
From stopping road accidents to performing a Heimlich manoeuvre, real-life Lassies have a long history of rescuing humans in distress. Their grateful owners tell all
We don't deserve dogs
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/35952239
> Hey all, > > Today, I’m writing to share our intention to join Fedecan, a Canadian not-for-profit organization committed to supporting the Fediverse. We believe this partnership will foster collaboration among like-minded individuals who share a common goal: to create a safe, welcoming space where people can connect freely. > > Together we will help deliver a fast, reliable, and consistent experience for all and continue to be free from corporate influence and guided by the values of openness, community, and trust. > ## Who is Fedecan > > Fedecan is a registered non-profit organization based in Canada, with the goal to provide a safe and welcoming space for people to connect with each other on the Fediverse. More information can be found here. > > You may also know them by their Canadian lemmy instance lemmy.ca. > ## What does this mean for sh.itjust.works? > > From the outside everything will stay much the same, especially with the admin team. Internally, we will collaborate on tasks related to non-profit compliance, policies, banking and common infrastructure elements such as backup/disaster recovery infrastructure. We will continue to operate separate equipment and instances in geographically isolated locations under different names. We will work towards aligning on safety and security practices in order to ensure that data is secure. > > From an organizational structure, sh.itjust.works will fall under the Fedecan umbrella and will share common bylaws, policies, methodologies on best practices, security and legal considerations. > ## Where do donations go? > > Donations to sh.itjust.works will continue to support our mission and objectives exclusively. However, users will also have the option to donate directly to Fedecan, which will allocate funds amongst its projects including sh.itjust.works. Operational costs related to running the non-profit will be shared among projects and these expenses will be transparently disclosed in annual reports published on the Fedecan website. > ## Option to withdrawal > > sh.itjust.works will have the right to withdraw from the Fedecan umbrella should our mutual goals no longer be aligned. In such a case, a predefined provision and action plan will be in place to ensure a smooth transition back to independence. > ## Why Now? > > As the Fediverse continues to grow, we believe it's important to collaborate more closely with others who share our values. Joining Fedecan allows us to do just that, strengthening our operation through a non-profit while staying true to our mission. > ## Timeline / Next Steps > > Over the coming weeks, we'll begin the process of integrating with Fedecan on the organization side. You won't notice many changes but we'll keep you informed throughout the process. > ## Looking Ahead > > We’re excited about this next chapter and the opportunities it brings. By joining forces, we’re reinforcing our commitment to the Fediverse and to the principles that brought us all together in the first place—openness, community, transparency, and trust. > > Our core mission remains unchanged. We're still independent in spirit and practice and we remain committed to being a space that's not driven by profit, but by people. > > I invite your questions or concerns on this thread or on our https://matrix.to/#/#sh.itjust.works:matrix.org) > > Stay connected, > > --The sh.itjust.works and Fedecan Team >
We're now running 0.19.11, changelog here - https://join-lemmy.org/news/2025-04-08_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.19.11
Protesters gather at more than a thousand events across the US and in cities abroad, such as London, Berlin and Paris. This blog is now closed.
If you want to watch the depressed bread yourself: https://tv.garden/de/0yjVBN9zD5VvoM
For anyone that noticed the 30 seconds of downtime a few minutes ago, that was to upgrade us to lemmy 0.19.10.
Changes are listed here - https://join-lemmy.org/news/2025-03-19_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.19.10_and_Developer_AMA
This is not the version with breaking API changes, there should be no impact to any clients.
Enjoy!
Decades after it housed a floating McDonald’s restaurant during Expo 86, the famous “McBarge” has capsized in B.C.’s Fraser River.
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Shadow @lemmy.ca Infrastructure nerd, gamer, and Lemmy.ca maintainer