4mo ago

Grateful for all Lemmy admins

A big thank you to all the Lemmy instance admins. We only really notice them when things go wrong. And every time something goes wrong, that means all the other admins had to perform superhuman feats so that sort of problem didn't happen to them.

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But without all the other admins I wouldn't have anyone to talk to. And they test out all the updates for me.
- Honest question: How large is the file size for your instance? Like, how many Gb does it all take up?
  
  Too much.
  The pgsql database is about 2 GB compressed, but it shares that with Nextcloud and I can't be bothered disentangling that right now.
  But the picture storage takes the cake. I've disabled proxying images of other posts and pruned those that were proxied until then. I think. But still it takes up multiple GBs. I post many memes but not nearly enough to explain that. And because it puts all the images into a billion subdirectories it takes ages to even calculate how much storage is used. Dunno if it will be done by the time I'm done writing this post.
  The picture storage is a huge black box. No idea what it's doing all the time. I can't shake the feeling that there must be better programs to handle pictures.
  Performance is a big problem as well. I've only got hdds and all the constant synchronisation is hammering the database like crazy. Loading my own profile usually takes 2 or 3 tries.
- Know a good guide on setting up your own instance?
  
  I think there are guides on the thing called tHe iNtErNeT
  seriously though, needs reasonable hardware and no bandwidth constraints or you'll really have to watch your federation.
  https://lemmy.world/post/993816
  
  I used the official documentation.
  
  I set up my instance by following the official docs: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/install_docker.html
  I used podman instead of docker though.

Awe...just heard about this.
Slrpnk.net outage
- Thanks for pointing to that! My main account's on slrpnk.net but I hadn't had time to look up what was going on.
- Seems like poVoq@slrpnk.net needs an internet monitoring plug. If the internet stops responding it will power cycle any devices that are plugged into it. Handy for edge devices that occasionally stroke out.

Thank you, admins!

Agreed, thank you admins!!!

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One upside to this is that people now have a good excuse to check out Piefed!
- If boost ever rolls out PieFed support, I'll be there faster than Paris breaking the warp 10 barrier
  
  I'm still surprised you use that LW account while there are so many other Lemmy instances to choose from 😅

Thanks, y'all

I guess being repressive, removing mild comments against their views and banning was too much work.
Well deserved karma

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