How to go about not having posts repeat? I have tried Connect, jerboa and sync apps on android and often find myself somehow back at the top of a long list of posts that I have already seen. I don't want to see posts that have left the top of my screen unless I scroll backwards. The connect app with its 'hide all above posts' option comes close to what I want but is not automatic. I sort by new if that helps. What am I missing?

Here we are, another month down.. still kicking 😀

As usual I’m stating full dollar figures for simplicity, but they’re all rounded/approximate to the dollar. I’m not an accountant and its close enough for our purposes.

Income

$98 AUD thanks to 13 generous donors

Expenses

$45 OVH server fees
$10 ($~6 USD)Wasabi object storage
$39 ($25 USD) Domain registration extended to 6th August 2025
= $94

Balance

+$486 carried forward from July
+$98 income for August
-$94 expenses paid in August
= $490 current balance

Future

Baseline storage on the server is now at ~70% at the low point of the day, time permitting I'll upgrade shortly to ensure sufficient room for growth. Doubling the current storage will cost an additional ~$12 per month.

THANK YOU

to everyone that has contributed to the running costs of the site.

A very special thank you to @[email protected] for everything he's doing here, both in public and behind the scenes. Without his help performing admin and moderator activities, this place would be a shambles. I've simply been too busy professionally and personally to pay as much attention as I need to. Thanks Nath, I (and I'm sure everyone else here) appreciate it 🤗

As always, if you have any questions please ask.

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Summary:

Not much to call out. The storage drop was due to purging a days worth of images, and clearing the entire object storage cache. When I have time, I'll upgrade the VPS to add storage.

Due to some disgusting behaviour, I've kicked off the process of deleting ALL images uploaded in the last day.

You will likely see broken images etc on aussie.zone for posts/comments during this period of time.

Apologies for the inconvenience, but this is pretty much the nightmare scenario for an instance. I'd rather nuke all images ever than to host such content.

We aren't really a big instance. We don't even make the top-20. Where we really hit above our weight though is our comment count.

We are medium in size, but we are super engaged.

I joined .world before aussie.zone was a thing. Now with them banning all the piracy communities it seems a slippery slope for all other kinds of discussions too.

I'm Australian. Aussies are notorious pirates. Does aussie.zone have plans to also defederate dbzer0 etc?

Just want some clarity before moving here.

Thanks!

Why are there no posts?

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Network:

The one spike here is from a DB backup being uploaded to object storage, prior to the upgrade to 0.18.4.

Storage:

Still ok here. You can see the daily minimum free space increase as I tweak the local cache for object storage.

Cloudflare caching:

Summary:

Nothing of note here. Once baseline storage hits ~70% and I decreasing the object storage retention period is no longer worthwhile, I'll upgrade the server for more storage.

I missed @[email protected]'s updates so here are the couple that matter.

From here: https://the-federation.info/node/details/50624

Sorry this is a little late, I've been busy with real life this week.

I'm stating full dollar figures for simplicity, but they're all rounded/approximate to the dollar. I'm not an accountant and its close enough for our purposes.

Income

$267 AUD thanks to 25 generous donors, it is very much appreciated.

Expenses

$34 OVH server fees. Lower than normal, as OVH seem to switch services to calendar based rather than anniversary based from the second month. The July billing period covered 8 July - 31 July, August will be 1-31.
$40 Cloudflare. Due to huge volumes of egress traffic from Cloudflare in early July, I opted to pay for a month of premium in order to investigate. The cause was found and remediated. I've since dropped back to the free plan.

Balance

$193 surplus from July (Income - Expenses)
$293 carried forward from June = $486 current balance

Future

Wasabi's trial period expired on the 8th of July, so the first bill is due this month.

Domain registration, I'll be looking to extend by another year and keep it so that we always have at least 12 months paid up.

Server storage, I expect we'll need to upgrade for additional storage this month. With this upgrade I'll consider pre-paying/committing to the server for a longer period of time. This provides both a discount, and certainty to everyone that the money is put to good use.

THANK YOU

..again, to our generous donors. The offer of an @aussie.zone email address redirect is still open to any donors.

As always, if you have any questions please ask.

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Summary:

My only call out this week is an uptick in storage consumption, seems to align with an increase in new user signups and general higher activity. I'm guessing this is due to the release of Sync for Lemmy.

Has anyone else had issues interacting with the lemmy.world instance?

Previously when I was trying to subscribe to a community it would just remain pending, until a couple of weeks later when cancelling it and trying again worked.

Now I'm finding I can't post there either. The 'Create' button just spins interminably.

Are they just getting smashed by traffic? Am I better off waiting until certain times of the day to interact with that instance?

UPDATE: I checked the POST request in the inspector (which I should have done before posting here) and it turns out it rejects posts where you specify the language. It gives a 400 response with a JSON body of {"error":"language_not_allowed"}. Hopefully the Lemmy devs get around to giving the front-end some kind of feedback about that rejection soon, I can't be the only one running into this.

At least since this morning, but maybe also for a couple of days now (not really sure?) the ability to view a comment's parent comment has been broken. I click it and it just takes me to a page showing nothing but the comment I clicked on.

It's not just on the web that's broken, but also in Jerboa, making me think it may be a backend problem, not a problem with the UI. Though Jerboa is broken in a slightly different way, showing comments in an incorrect level of indentation.

Is everyone else experiencing this?

I was wondering whether there's any appetite to host alternative frontends? I've been using Alexandrite a bit recently, and really liking it (though would be more comfortable sending my login credentials directly to aussie.zone instead of hoping everything's legit), and some other servers are hosting that or something like Voyager for a mobile-first iOS-styled interface.

e.g.

• Voyager - https://m.lemmy.world
• Alexandrite - https://a.lemmy.world

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All resource usage looking stable. Storage is the only one that is trending up, as expected.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2187925

Lemmy world was growing at a decent pace leading up to July 1st, then had a big influx following the API deadline. However the last week in particular has seen a decline.

Engagement still appears to be the same, although a little lower than the start of the month. A few of the other instances i have been checking follow a similar pattern.

Do you think we will continue growing at a steady pace, or do we need another big trigger to get users to migrate? For Mastodon, it seems there's a big trigger every other week to drive users away from Twitter, but with Reddit, the revolt seems to have quietened down considerably.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/2222531

It's here!

Download Mlem for Lemmy on the App Store

Please note: it may take a couple minutes for it to be available in all regions. We just pressed the button.

Mlem for Lemmy is out of beta and live on the App Store!

Thank you to everybody who tested our app and submitted feedback, whether through TestFlight or a GitHub issue or a post on the community. Your insight has been an integral part of making this app what it is, and we look forward to working with you to make it even better in the months to come.

The past month and a half of hard work has been an amazing journey, but this is just the beginning. We hope you give it a download and join us as we strive to bring you the best mobile Lemmy experience we can.

Cheers,

The Mlem Group

At this time this post supposedly has 13 comments but I only see six. I'm curious as to what's going on. Is it folks posting from instances that this instance is not federated to? Or is it because those users do not have English (or Undetermined) selected among the Settings > Languages options? Or is it a combo of both and/or some other stuff?

Are there any recommended user settings for engaging with this instance and are they posted anywhere?

More Graphs in the body.

Users: 1,736 Last 6 months active users: 676 Last month active users: 539 Posts: 2,260 Comments: 26,442

Source:https://the-federation.info/node/details/50624

Another week... another bunch of nerd graphs!

CPU:

Not much to say here, pretty stable CPU usage wise.

Memory:

The unusual memory growth appears to have been related to a minor Postgres configuration change I made last week, which was reverted on Thursday. Memory usage looking much more normal since.

Network:

As with CPU usage, network traffic is looking stable.

Storage:

Storage growth has normalized, now that we've hit an equilibrium point. Though I'll be tweaking the object storage cache retention to minimise object storage pulls.

Cloudflare caching:

Still saving us a large volume of egress traffic. Will save even more if particular content goes viral.

Summary:

Resource utilisation on the server is looking great across the board. No skyrocketing usage as we saw initially. Storage is still looking like the first trigger for another server upgrade, but as it is now a gradual increase we'll have plenty of fore warning and its looking like this will be some time away.

Questions? 🤓

Could you make a community for soccer?

Front page hasn't change in days and daily threads from Sunday are still trending. Both "Hot' and "Active" appear to be static lemmy-wide.

Custard is a very good Aussie indie rock band!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1605286

I keep see people complaining about not being able to find active communities that match their interests. So I've added a new feature to https://www.search-lemmy.com/ that allows you to search posts for a particular topic and then it tells you which communities have the most posts matching your search query.

And assuming that you've set your home instance correctly, those links will even open up in your home instance, so that you can subscribe directly to them.

For example, if you search for 'linux' (https://www.search-lemmy.com/find-communities/results?query=linux&page=1) it gives you a link to each community, tells you which instance it's on and how many matches it found for your query.

All of the same filters that you can use on the normal search can be used here as well. So if you just want to find the best community that mentions linux on lemmy.world (https://www.search-lemmy.com/find-communities/results?query=linux+instance%3Alemmy.world&page=1), you can filter by just that instance. Click on the Search Tips button to see a list of all of the available filters.

P.S. I'm aware of https://lemmyverse.net/ etc... and while those are great as well, this allows you to search to see what people are actually talking about on the various communities.

Again, if you have any feature requests or find any bugs, PLEASE reach out or ideally go to my github (https://github.com/marsara9/lemmy-search) and log a bug there.

Doh! Forgot earlier in the night, so here you are... technically Saturday.

CPU:

The lemmy devs have made some major strides in improving performance recently, as you can see by the overall reduced CPU load.

Memory:

I need to figure out why swap is continuing to be used, when there is cache/buffer available to be used. But as you can see, the upgrade to 8GB of RAM is being put to good use.

Network:

The two large spikes here are from some backups being uploaded to object storage. Apart from that, traffic levels are fine.

Storage:

A HUGE win here this week, turns out a huge portion of the database is data we don't need, and can be safely deleted pretty much any time. The large drop in storage on the 9th was from me manually deleting all but the most recent ~100k rows in the guilty table. Devs are aware of this issue, and are actively working on making DB storage more efficient. While a better fix is being worked on, I have a cronjob running every hour to delete all but the most recent 200k rows.

Cloudflare caching:

Cloudflare still saving us substantial egress traffic from the VPS, though no 14MB "icons" being grabbed thousands of times this week 😀

Summary:

All things considered, we're in a much better place today than a week ago. Storage is much less of a concern, and all other server resources are doing well... though I need to investigate swap usage.

Longer term it still looks as though storage will become the trigger for further upgrades. However storage growth will be much more slow and under our control. The recent upward trend is predominantly from locally cached images from object storage, which can be deleted at any time as required.

As usual, feel free to ask questions.