Its been a little while since I posted stuff :)

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Not much has changed in quite a while. I still have a cron-job running to restart Lemmy every day due to memory leaks, hopefully this improves with future updates. Outside of that, CPU, memory and network usage are fine.
Object storage usage is growing steadily, but we're a long way from paying more than the monthly minimum Wasabi fee.

I know when things first kicked off we would get server updates semi-regularly such as finances and server load. I can’t say I’ve seen one for a while, just wondering how things are going?

Posted a query in the LW support channel to see if anyone there has any idea.

Just thought I'd give people a heads-up. I've just noticed some upvotes and posts haven't federated from lemmy.world to aussie.zone .

Hopefully it's just delays again, and they'll work their way through the queue reasonably soon.

Comments, votes don't appear to be federating for one of the last posts I made over at [email protected].

https://aussie.zone/post/7871931

https://lemmy.world/post/13089616

Can we get a tech com please? I don't mind modding. I know the bigger insts have very large tech coms but I figure a place for locals to post about tech without the whole fv watching could also come in handy. Probably best to call it technology but I don't mind tech either. Whatever yall want to roll with.

I'm still seeing cases where comments don't seem to be federating correctly. For example:

I'm not sure what the cause is, but the last few days it seems more of my comments are failing to federate than are succeeding.

Hopefully this will be the end of our federation woes

We’ve already defederated one tanky instance, and frankly I think I’ve rarely had a positive interaction with Hexbear users. Their defence of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, or of China’s genocide against the Uighur people, is hard enough to stomach. But what prompted me to post this is their commentary in this thread where even without any of the propaganda-based reasons to justify their beliefs, they seem to delight in being rude arseholes to people.

Personally, I don’t think they provide us any real value, no we’d be better off without them, just as we are better off without lemmygrad and exploding-heads.

Not sure if this is a .19 bug or has always existed, but on the inbox page, if I have no unreads, click "all" then click back to unreads it shows DMs despite all DMs being read and the DM filter not even being selected

no unreads

click all

now in unreads DMs show up

The upgrade to lemmy 0.19 has introduced some issues that are being investigated.. but we currently have no fixes for:

• thumbnails break after a time. Caused by memory exhaustion killing object storage processes.
• messages to/from lemmy instance not yet running 0.19 are not federating. I believe it requires bugfixes by the devs.

~~I've re-enabled 2 hourly lemmy restarts. Hopefully this will help with both issues, though it will result in a disruption to the site around every couple of hours.

When the hourly restarts are disabled I'll unpin this post. As any other issues are identified I'll post them here too. ~~

Update: I've disabled the 2 hourly restart after upgrading to 0.19.2... lets see how this goes...

Update2: no issues seen since the upgrade, looks to have resolved both the memory leak and the federation issues. Hooray :)

Usually I post to slrpnk.net and they are currently on 0.18.5. None of my posts/comments (2 posts, 1 comment) are federating.

Just letting you know if anyone here is posting to non-updated instances, it's possible they aren't going through. Yet completely possible they are. Who knows with this federation business.

I'm going to go to the ~~Winchester~~ Engadine Maccas, ~~grab a schooner~~ shit my pants and wait for this to all blow over.

~~I'll be restarting AZ today for an update to lemmy 0.19.~~

Upgrade complete.

This is a major upgrade, so I expect there to be some issues. Strap in, enjoy the ride.

Expect:

• further restarts
• bugs
• slowdowns
• logouts
• 2FA being disabled
• possibly issues with images, upgrading pictrs to 0.4 at the same time

Are there plans to switch to lemmy 0.19? we are still on 0.18.4, and the new version seems to have alot of useful features. Are there any problems stopping us from updating?

Meta threads will open federation to the fediverse soon, and while this is mainly to mastodon it will still affect lemmy. They are acting like they won't be evil, but let's be real this is Facebook when have they ever done that.

This article which has been trending lately explains some of the issues. https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

This comment here is a simple analogy if you can't be bothered reading the article. https://lemmy.ca/comment/5702922

@[email protected]

This isn't a question specifically about aussie.zone, per se, but I'm a bit confused about how subscriber numbers work on Lemmy. I often see a community that says it only has 40 or whatever subscribers, but then posts get hundreds of upvotes. So is the member number shown on communities just counting subscribers from our instance?

I noticed recently there's some slowness in the mornings. Things taking a while to load. Comments failing due to timeout etc.

When I switch to another instance everything works again so pretty sure it's not my internet.

Is there anything we can do or help with? Are there DOS or bot shenanigans going on?

Heya, could we get a SydneyTrains community created please? Thanks

I used to run R/BrisbaneTrains on spez's bullshit playground. Wondering if I can run it here.

I'm kicking off a storage upgrade on the server, expect it to proceed in the next 15 minutes and be back online shortly after.

Hi,

I was curious, after seeing quite a few spam posts originate from one particular instance, is there a way that I, as a user, can block instances, so that their users' posts don't appear on my feed completely?

Cheers

I haven't received email notifications for the last 48ish hours, and they aren't in the spam folder. Is email broken for the moment, or has Gmail just decided to ignore aussie.zone completely for whatever reason?

I came across this neat visualisation of the Fediverse - There we are on the left - a slightly bigger dot among the galaxy of tiny dots :)