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Since everyone on lemmy.ca gets subscribed here, this is the place to chat about the goings on at lemmy.ca, support-type items, suggestions, etc.

Announcements can be found at https://lemmy.ca/c/meta

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Welcome, new users! (lemmy.ca)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by smorks@lemmy.ca to c/main@lemmy.ca

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There has been a steady trickle of new users here today, and in the past little while, mostly due to the bad decisions that reddit is currently making.

Anyways, welcome! Feel free to look around, and if you have any questions about anything lemmy related, feel free to ask!

Also, if you feel up to it, introduce yourself in the comments below!

edit: Here's a nice getting started guide for lemmy: https://tech.michaelaltfield.net/2023/06/11/lemmy-migration-find-subreddits-communities/

i should have added it here a while ago!

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[–] n_emoo@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Who is the admin for this server? Can you tell us about yourself? What makes this server different from some others (except for its Canadian bias, of course).

Is it run on AWS instance, and are you self funding it?

[–] smorks@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

i'm the admin. i'm a software developer, living in Winnipeg, MB. I spend a lot of time watching my son play baseball in the spring/summer, own a dog that sometimes acts like a cat.

Not sure what makes this server different from others? I will do my best to make this place a safe, welcoming space for all. Will probably need some help along the way as we grow.

It's currently run on a VPS on lunanode, a canadian provider. I'm currently self funding it, but plan on accepting donations to help run it as well.

[–] n_emoo@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Software dev here as well. Expat living in Seattle. I can donate for instance upkeep if needed. Reach out if you need any other assitance as well.

[–] dekerta@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you mind sharing how big of a VPS is required to run an instance this size? One of the issues with Mastodon is that it's written in Ruby and it requires a lot of money to run a decently sized server. I'm wondering if Lemmy is more efficient given that it's written in Rust

[–] smorks@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

this is the last 24 hours of CPU usage, currently running on a 4 cpu vps.

not sure how that compares to a Mastodon instance of similar size. i know the lemmy devs are working on some further optimizations, so hopefully that will help too.

[–] dekerta@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Cool, thanks!

[–] leecalvin@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some context: I self host an Akkoma instance with some low powered CPUs and it's worked fine for me. I'm just wondering what kind of CPUs these virtual CPUs are on the VPS you're using?

[–] smorks@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

this is from their wiki page, not sure if it's still accurate?

https://wiki.lunanode.com/index.php/Hardware_specifications

[–] uelleh@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interesting. I'm curious as I'm new to this lemmy thing. Did you set it up to be scalable in the event that this server gets much bigger ?

[–] smorks@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

yes, i can scale up the resources if needed.