Hey Dave, yeah I know about the issues with high latency federation. Have been in touch with Nothing4You, but not discussed the batching solution.

Yes losing LW content isn’t great… but I don’t really have the time to invest to implement a work around. I’m confident the lemmy devs will have a solution at some point… hopefully when they do the LW admins upgrade pronto 🙂

The biggest gotcha with 0.19.4, is the required upgrades to postgres and pictrs. Postgres requires a full DB dump, delete, recreate. Pict-rs requires its own backend DB migration, which can take quite a bit of time.

It was removed deliberately during the reddit exodus in order to direct new Lemmy users elsewhere. Rather than to overload lemmy.ml further.

Hey I do exactly the same, high 5!

Basically deleting files from the Wasabi cache directory that haven’t been accessed in whatever time threshold I’ve specified as X:
find -atime +X -exec rm {}

This is my Ko-fi page where people can donate. It’s linked from the sidebar on the front page also.

Midnight is something internal to Lemmy, I think it’s just a DB cleanup. The other is clearing unused caches items from Wasabi.

This has upset the applecart at work today. Thankfully I’m just a lowly packet pusher, not a cloud jockey. 😀

Sadly this isn’t new, its been known about for quite some time. Slightly irresponsible for that person to post and make a big noise about it without creating a github issue though. Ideally the lemmy devs will add code to automatically purge orphaned images. Hopefully this public noise around it will hurry this up.

I see this much like the extraneous data being stored in the database previously; low hanging fruit for devs to optimise and make hosting an instance less resource intensive. Yes there are possible legal risks for uploads that are not referenced on lemmy, but the reality is this could happen deep in a comment thread or a user profile anyway.

Yes lemmy’s modding features are… lacking. However there are some non-lemmy services availble to stop this sort of thing that I’m looking into.

Sync also has an option to enable avatars. I can’t use any client that doesn’t have avatars available. I’m too used to identifying people by their avatars… and now emojis and OP/admin tags.

The way lemmy caches images isn’t well documented. Some third party images are not cached, others are. I don’t want to risk it.

Nuking it from orbit, only way to be sure.

All good, I’ll continue posting updates like this each month to let everyone know where we stand.

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What Nath said.

There will be multiple reasons. I suspect this mostly co.es down to lemmy.world being victim of a DDoS recently.

Additionally the Lemmy code itself now has mechanisms to stop instances forever trying to send content to offline instances. The code isn’t perfect and has been known to have false positives. I’ll check tonight if this may be the case here, though this was supposed to be addressed in Lemmy 0.18.4.

There are other possibilities, but these are most likely in my mind.

Sadly I had no pictures of you to add 😀

Sure, here is the graph with the legend:

Not a stupid question at all. If donating will cause you any issues, please don’t 😀.

I’d like to get to a point where I can prepay for the server for a year, as this will lead to a lower overall price. However until server resource requirements stabilize this isn’t possible.

None of the donations will be spent on me or for my personal enrichment. If I ever close aussie.zone down I’d be looking for suggestions on where to donate any surplus funds.

As it stands we’re in a good position and I’m not worried at all. If things do ever become a worry for me, I’ll keep everyone informed.