Site admin for discuss.online.
Founder of Sublinks
I’m a web developer, sysadmin, and entrepreneur by trade.
I do photography, PC gaming, 3D Printing, and maker projects for fun.
More here: https://jasongr.im
It’s not dead, perhaps you joined at a slow time. We were just chatting a bunch in there about cursor pagination. There are several rooms if you didn’t notice. General, Frontend, API, & Federation. Along with Announcements and Support.
I’m the founder of Sublinks. I’m happy to answer questions. You can find me on Mastodon @[email protected]. You’re right about the dev blog. We have a weekly Sublinks team meeting, the results of that could go into a weekly dev update. I’ve just been more focused on coding than community stuff. I’ll do better.
Thanks @[email protected]! https://social.photo. I just opened registration so it’s still very young. I am running Lemmy on https://discuss.online, Mastodon on https://utter.online and Pixelfed on https://social.photo. I also run a matrix instance on the same discuss.online domain.
I’m based in Ohio, US; however, the servers are in New York on DigitalOcean. That’s really close to Canada :).
I’m trying to build an ecosystem under the https://participating.online brand. I don’t plan on going anywhere.
In fact, I had planned to build something many years ago and I’ll probably start on it now. It will provide a unique experience once it’s done in a several months. I’m working on some other stuff first… like myself.
I’m never wrong! I thought I was once, but, it turns out I was just mistaken.
You’re not wrong, sadly.
I see your point; however, if they stopped, the people would give them grief for that. But I’m with you. They should take responsibility and help stop exploitative practices.
They ushered it by providing the AppStore or is there something more direct?
Yes, I’ve just been into this idea for a while. I thought about building something like Lemmy about 10 years ago, but everyone said I was crazy to think people would do it. It’s here now, and I want it to grow and be trusted. The only way to do that is to build trusted instances. I took it upon myself to make that happen or at least contribute to it happening.
Yes, when I started talking to other admins that’s when I realized how over prepared I was compared to them.
That’s what made me decide to do the downgrade. I might do it again at some point.
Right now, here is what I’m seeing with the simple DigitalOcean graphs:
The database restarted itself about an hour ago due to load. So I need to scale that or move it into the same Droplet as my other services.
Here are the 24-hour metrics:
Server
DB
I see. My server instance is at 5% CPU and 15% memory usage. However, my managed DB instance is constantly near 80%. I’m thinking about moving the database over to the same server and managing my own backups. It’s seems much more DB heavy now.
A few Subreddits were planning to come over at the end of the month that didn’t work out. Their members revolted and threatened to replace the mods. So they stayed over there. It would have been over 200k people if they all came over, even if not all members came. I thought I was under planning at the time.
I was reaching out to Reddit mods, trying to convenience them to join my instance. It almost worked, haha.
But in the end, I had to scale down while still maintaining something snappy. The DB is already over 15G, and I want to use a managed db. It’s too large to put on smaller instances.
I was expecting over 200k people to going overnight from Reddit. There were a few communities actively working to come over. In the end the followers revolted against a Rexxit. They didn’t come.
What does yours look like now?
Thanks,
There was a plan for some Reddit communities with over 200k active users to come over that didn’t work out. They mods were moving over, but the subscribers didn’t want to leave Reddit. So I built for that load. Even if a small fraction came over it’d be busier than any other instance.
For now, I want it to be snappy and have zero outages. The “brand” of Lemmy is new, and if all the instances crash or have outages, then the transition over will be slow, and only true early adopters will endure it.
I’m willing to take a loss to help grow the community. The backend has random outages with CPU & memory, so I’m using the lowest-tier general-purpose dedicated CPU instance. I was using memory-optimized before.
My losses are at least lower now.
Thanks again, Jason
I see now. I didn’t realize that’s what that was.
Move to lemmy. r/nerf just moved to my instance discuss.online/c/nerf. Change all your content to be about foxes getting fired from their jobs.
I’m mostly concerned about not being able to play it on Steamdeck anymore. I can still play it on PC. But doesn’t seem like a good choice to have that anti cheat. Thanks, gotta think about it.
I’m past the refund period. I wish I knew this sooner.
Perhaps it’s your client or the server acting funny. Here are direct links to the open rooms: