Yay, beans.
Small instance with about 3 users and myself online for about 2 weeks.
pictrs 930M
postgres 1.4G
I run lemmyverse.org.
I'm not sure if it is because of an influx of users, but small instance has stopped receiving posts/comments from any subscribed community on lemmy.ml. Lemmy.world shows up fine as does beehaw.org and others, just not lemmy.ml. I'm not defederated as far as I can tell. Anybody else having this issue?
No, communities on different instances will not have the same content. This is one of the features of the fediverse.
Each instance can have it's own /c/memes and they won't conflict. So, there could be https://lemmy.world/c/memes and https://lemmyverse.org/c/memes and they could each be different with different content and rules. If you want to see each instances 'memes' community, then you will need to subscribe to them individually from your home instance. Once you do that, the 'memes' community will be 'cached' on your home instance and it will show up in everyone's feed on your home server.
Space cows
Absolutely.
I run my own instance just because I want to build a community that people can enjoy. I do it out of my own pocket and don't ask for donations of any kind. Not everything is about profit for some people. If I were running a site as big as Lemmy.world, then I would consider it, but only to cover some expenses.
As someone who owns their own instance, it is hard to get your instance recognized. You don't have much content because of the lack of people, and it's hard to get content if you don't have people join. It's a chicken and the egg scenario. Because of this some people choose to re-post content from Reddit to attract people over to their instance. It's great to see the Lemmy community grow, but everyone joining a few huge Lemmy servers kind of defeats the purpose of the fediverse.
Not as many as you would think. I work in a technical field and most people had no idea there was a protest going on. They also didn’t even know of alternative mobile apps. Most didn’t care and just used the official app. There may be a slight bump, but nothing significant.
Like others have said, nothing is stopping them. That is why it is important to spread communities around to other reputable instances, so if something like that does happen, only the communities on that particular instance are lost.
Can somebody let me know how I would remove an account from the posgreSQL database?
I can see the tables, but don't know where the accounts are held or the sql statement to delete them.
Thank you.
I dont have much to add other than I am an experienced admin and was dismayed at how vulnerable Lemmy is. Having an option to have open registrations with no checks is not great. No serious platform would allow that.
I dont know of a bulletproof way to weed put the bad actors, but a voting system that Lemmy can leverage, with a minimum reputation in order to stay federated might work. This would require some changes that I'm not sure the devs can or would make. Without any protection in place, people will get frustrated and abandon Lemmy. I would.
I have the application process enabled for people to join my instance, and I've gotten about 20 bots trying to join today when I had nobody trying to join for 5 days. I can tell because they are generic messages and I put a question in asking what 2+3 is and none of them have answered it at all, they just have a generic message.
Be careful out there, for all you small instance admins.
I tried to upgrade via the instructions doing a git pull
and then running ansible again and it totally broke my site with a server error
message. I ended up reverting back to 0.17.4.
EDIT: It looks like they added some extra NGINX proxy stuff in there. All that broke my instance and I had previously just deployed via ansible following the instructions on their page. I would stay away for now.
There could be a few reasons.
- They want to copy over their favorite content.
- They want to try to attract more people to a community by bootstrapping content.
- They are trying to artificially inflate their instance for nefarious reasons.
Personally, I think adding some of your favorite Reddit posts is fine as long as you don't blindly copy over everything from a subreddit. I have a couple communities that I brought over that I like, but without content, they mean nothing.
I belive > 50% are bot accounts, maybe more.
Does anybody know of a good place to upload short video clips like people do with v.redd.it?
I wish my local city's community had more people, but I'm afraid they'll never move over. Oh well, i created it anyway.
I've also created a few others that will get buried.