TheDude @ TheDude @sh.itjust.works

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I've went ahead and updated and applied the update to our configuration files. This issue should be sorted now.

Thanks!

Thanks for bringing this to my attention.

I found that there were some changes to the nginx.conf file which can be seen here

it does look like its fixed in the 19.10 version of lemmy. I'll do another deep dive later tonight to see if we can just update the nginx configuration without upgrading to 19.10 and if its the case will schedule another small maintenance window this week to get it pushed out.

Thank you

Hey!

Everything has been reviewed and we're good to move over the 19.9. I'll be posting an announcement in the coming days to give everyone a heads up. I'm aiming towards the end of this week.

I want to say that I've been blown away by the amount of support that's I've received in the last 24 hours. You all have left me speechless. Thank you everyone who have donated and those who couldn't, know that being a good member of this community already more than I could ask for. Thank you!

Hey there, I considered this at first but my understanding with tesseract is that this would mean we'd be proxying account credentials/tokens of other instances. I'm comfortable in doing this for our own instance but it doesn't feel I'd be a responsible human to enable it for other instances. If there was a way to be more transparent to users using it for external instances I'd reconsider. I'm open to any feedback.

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Absolutely. This is exactly why It's important that we get a donation strategy put into place sooner rather than later.

This is odd. I did not upgrade pictrs (the service responsible for image hosting). There may have been an error for some specific tables rows during the database migrates. Another possibility could have been an error during the schema update that I believe the new version had to go through.

Would you be able to DM me links to other posts that you come across with broken images? I will look to see if I can identify any common trends that could tell us more.

Thank you

We sure are!

Hi @Blaze@sopuli.xyz

It's coming. This instance is deployed using lemmy-ansible but with some slight modifications. I need to review a few things to make sure the transition is smooth. As you also pointed out, it's also summer time which isn't helping with my free time situation.

I have a long term solution that will speed up upgrades but I only expect to get it in place by the fall. In the meanwhile, I'm planning on getting this instance upgraded to 19.5 in the coming weeks.

Hey,

I'm due to make a post about the instances finances soon. I'll get one posted in the next bit.

I'm still covering costs out of pocket but my goal has been to have this instance fully funded by its members. I want this instance to stay true to its members, the fediverse and be put in a position where it can continue to thrive transparently without me. The admin team has been doing an outstanding job keeping this instance safe and moderated for everyone. I don't thank them enough but they are the true heroes of this instance.

As some may know, I've been working with a local non profit for the past 6 months to have them leveraged in accepting accepting donations for this instance. They have been slow to get things done but its progressing. I may end up doing what I was trying to avoid and create my own non-profit instead if that's what it takes. That direction does have its own challenges and would add additional responsibilities to my plate.

In the meanwhile, while some of the costs of the services have gone up slightly, I get joy knowing that I can continue providing this instance to all of you. I'm OK paying the costs to keeping the lights on until we can transition to donations.

Yes, I'll get this done

UPDATE: here you go https://oldsh.itjust.works/

There was a little hiccup this morning unrelated to the migration tonight. The Lemmy services like to be restarted every once in a while. Once we move to the new hardware I'll be able to look into implementing a better logging system and hopefully be more proactive when situations like these happen.

The biggest consumer of storage on this instance is related to the image hosting which we use an external object storage provider for. The second is the database which is no were near the 2TB capacity. 1TB SSDs are cheaper than 2TB SSDs and I also didn't want to spend more than I needed. As other mentioned if we need more space or IOPs in the future, I could accomplish this by adding more drives as a quick fix. This server does not support NVME unless I leverage its PCIe ports but I don't plan on doing that. By the time this instance gets to the point where 10 SSD drives just isn't cutting it anymore I'll probably have come across another opportunities on getting a new server with better NVME support.

I've started the preparation steps to minimize the maintenance window needed for this upgrade. These operations are running some background tasks and once they are done I'll make an announcement to give everyone a few days heads up of the anticipated upgrade time and date. Should be soon.

Hey!

The best way is to @TheDude on our matrix channel. This action triggers notifications across all my devices, creating a barrage of alerts that almost always grab my attention, a.k.a a ddos to my sensory system.

@kersploosh@sh.itjust.works explained it well. It was related to a small bug on the pictrs service that I've already reported which they quickly fixed in a newer version. I will tackle this upgrade at the same time as I get this instance up to v19

@InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works in the perfect world community admins should be moderating their communities and the site admins should only be called upon when there is community abuse or when community mods are not doing any moderation.

As @antik@lemmy.world mentioned below @MichelleG@sh.itjust.works is an alt account for same person on lemmy.world ans she has provided tons of help to this instance.

You are right about one thing, I am currently stretched really thin. If made a list of all my responsibilities I think it would shock a lot of you. That being said the amount of time it takes to run a community is astonishing and running a community well requires a lot more time than I have left to give. There is still a lot of work needed to be spent on this site.

The admins of this site help a huge amount as is mostly due to them that we are still running but I don't want to dump more onto their plates.

I could use a lot more help in all areas (system administration, community moderation, legal revision, moving to accepting donations).

If anyone is interested in helping reach out on Matrix.

Hi there

Sent you a message on the matrix chat. This should now be fixed.

Thank you

The original rules of lemmy.comfysnug.space explicitly allowed for loli content to be posted. I associate loli content with pedophilia and therefore was the reason why I had defederated with them.

Hey all,

I will be locking this voting thread as they do not conform to the Agora guidelines.

• Voting threads should run from Friday to Friday
• Voting threads should be started by a member of The Agora moderation team and must reference the discussion thread.

In addition, it appears that hexbear has reversed their decision and has removed us from their allowed list.

As Lemmy looks to add the ability for users to decide which instances they want to blocked on a per user basis, I hope these types of defederation conversations discussion become less common.

I'd like to give a thanks to the admin at hexbear carc0sa who reached out to us in the last week in order to coordinate some mutual moderation between instances.

Lastly over the last week I've read a lot of back and forth between instances and want to leave you with this.

As people we all have the right to our own opinions and beliefs. Sometimes from time to time we might come across someone who doesn't share these same opinions or beliefs. Instead of using these differences as reasons to divide us, I hope we as people can get to a point where we can use it to make us more understanding, knowledgeable, accepting and united.

As things such as Natural Disasters continue to rise globally there might be a day where the person who you disagree with is the same person who is helping you or a loved one. It won't matter if they are a leftist, rightist, white, black, LGBTQ. What will matter is whether they are a decent human being who understands that while opinions make differences they can choose to not be divide by it.