Every month, we post an update on the happenings of the instance, as well as provide a sort of town square to share news and happenings in your own life.
With January comes a new year, and this time even a new quarter-century! While the last year brought with it many things to grumble about (to put it mildly), this new year brings new hopes as well; China's emissions could peak this year due to solar installations being constructed at an unprecedented scale, The fall of Assad's regime may bring a reprieve for Rojava, Unions are forming and growing at a rate we haven't seen in decades across the globe, and mutual aid organizations are experiencing an influx of new people looking to help due to recent events.
So let us face this new year together, and continue to build up, piece by piece and no matter how small, the world we want to live in.
π‘ Technical updates π‘
Not much to report for technical updates, other that we updated to Lemmy version 0.19.8 last month. For the coming month we plan an update to our Movim enabling so called "stories", a form of time limited micro-blog popular on some other messengers.
Due to various reasons, we didn't finish the prototype donation page yet, but it will be available soon. Due to the high amount of submissions we also did not yet hear back from Nlnet if our grant application for adding GNU Taler donation support has been successful or not.
β‘Solar-powered servers βοΈ
Last month has been again rather rainy and cold at out server location, therefore only 41% of the total electricity needs could be covered by the solar panels we installed in early October. The average over the last three months was 50%, which isn't too bad considering that these were all unusually rainy winter months. The additional grid-power was mostly wind and geothermal energy. It should be noted that these figures include the total electricity usage on the site, not only those strictly for the server that this Lemmy instance runs on.
π£οΈ Open Discussion πͺ
Remember, this post is also a place for you! If you have something to share, a new community to show off, a thought about the instance, or a story to tell, then please do tell!
Happy New Year, everyone.
Hardware maintenance was completed (details will be in the next monthly post). In case anyone didn't see the post in /c/meta
Edit: Uff, major PSU failure on the new system cause a cascade of other issues. We are temporarily back with the old PSU now, but this needs to be replaced as the fan is not working properly on it.
More issues this morning with the database storage. We are currently trying some workarounds and also had to revert to the nightly backup (approx 3am UTC), so some posts got lost. If things stay stable now, I will write a post mortem in the next montly post, otherwise we need to revert to some old hardware at least temporarily.
After some more issues I moved the system back to an old mainboard now which should be stable. Hopefully this will give me some time to find a better solution.
We appreciate all the work you do for us. Thank you <3