So after we've extended the virtual cloud server twice, we're at the max for the current configuration. And with this crazy growth (almost 12k users!!) even now the server is more and more reaching capacity.

Therefore I decided to order a dedicated server. Same one as used for mastodon.world.

So the bad news... we will need some downtime. Hopefully, not too much. I will prepare the new server, copy (rsync) stuff over, stop Lemmy, do last rsync and change the DNS. If all goes well it would take maybe 10 minutes downtime, 30 at most. (With mastodon.world it took 20 minutes, mainly because of a typo :-) )

For those who would like to donate, to cover server costs, you can do so at our OpenCollective or Patreon

Thanks!

Update The server was migrated. It took around 4 minutes downtime. For those who asked, it now uses a dedicated server with a AMD EPYC 7502P 32 Cores "Rome" CPU and 128GB RAM. Should be enough for now.

I will be tuning the database a bit, so that should give some extra seconds of downtime, but just refresh and it's back. After that I'll investigate further to the cause of the slow posting. Thanks @veroxii@lemmy.world for assisting with that.

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[–] CoolBeance@lemmy.world 77 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

For less tech-savvy newbies (like me), in case there is some confusion affecting your urge to engage/donate... My friend gave me a great explanation:

Lemmy the platform is planet Earth
“Instances” like lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, beehaw.org, etc. are like the different countries on Earth
When someone signs up, the user picks one instance to be a part of, like how an Earthling becomes a citizen of a country
If you register at lemmy.world, that means your home instance/ “home country” is lemmy.world, but you can “travel” to lemmy.ml, another instance / “country”, to check out and subscribe to their community
When you subscribe to a different instance that’s not your home instance, you can still participate in their content, and other people will be able to see which instance / “country” you’re from
Each instance can have its own version of the same “subreddit”, so you can have a c/Memes in your home instance that is different from a c/Memes in another instance. But you can subscribe to both separately
c/[community name] is the naming convention used here I think like r/[subreddit name] on Reddit. If talking about a community in a different instance, it's c/[community name]@[instance name] so like c/memes@lemmy.ml
Donations will help with the cost of running lemmy.world only and not lemmy.ml, beehaw.org, etc.

Someone please correct any of this if any of it is wrong, I’ll happily edit

[–] Soullioness@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

To add to this, you can use exclamation point "!" To link people to communities in a way that won't take them away from their home instance. Likewise you can use @ for users.

Example: !eli5@lemmy.blahaj.zone Or: @Soullioness@lemmy.world

It even auto fills when you type

Edit: might be wrong about it linking universally.

[–] andrew@radiation.party 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This absolutely is not true today, they create links that are absolute and refer to the host of the community in question.

[–] zinklog@lemmy.fmhy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

Making links agnostic is an open PR which will be implemented eventually.

[–] neischlah@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm working on a Firefox extension to add a link going to your home instance.

[–] Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

for a while it will result in a lot of seemingly dead links as small communities will appear as 404s until the remote instance has synced.

Or at least that's what i'm seeing occasionally when I try to copy/paste the communites onto my instances /c/ URL.

[–] ioNabio@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

right I was just testing it and it auto fills with absolute path using "!". Using "@" I could only link local communities

[–] zinklog@lemmy.fmhy.ml 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This seems like a much better explanation for Lemmy compared to the email analogy everyone writes for non-tech savvy people.

[–] CoolBeance@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Welp, tbh the dude is a pro at making a molehill out of a mountain

[–] Slopecarver@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there a way to view C/Memes in all instances at once in aggregate? I don't want to miss out on what other instances are doing.

[–] lemann@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not yet, although there is ongoing discussion about this

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/818

[–] Slopecarver@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm new here so I might not be asking the right question. As I understand it there are many subforums one on each instance with the same exact name. Are they all shown at once while browsing? Can they be?

I wasn't talking about multiforums but that's good to know too.

[–] foggenbooty@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

There can be multiple communities with the same name, that doesn't mean there are. Like how yourname@gmail.com and yourname@hotmail.com are the same "name" but a different domain.

So say for example you and your friend start up your own Lemmy instance and decide to make your own community called "Funny" where you can post jokes, without bothering to check if there was already a more popular "Funny" in someone else's instance. There's nothing stopping you and now there will be two communities called Funny, but one would be Funny@lemmy.world and yours would be Funny@whateveryoupicked.com

If your "Funny" gets to be really popular too, then other people might choose to subscribe to both Funny communities, and then posts from both would be in their feed. However they are distinctly seperate and you will continue to own and run yours and lemmy.world would own theirs.

Does that make sense? I know it's a weird concept when you're used to unique names in Reddit, but it's not all that different from r/news and r/worldnews covering similar content but controlled by different people.