The Interim Computer Festival is September 30th - October 1st in Seattle WA at the INTRASPACE event space at the Rainier Brewery. Registration is open.
Welcome to .. UI: 0.18.2-rc.1 BE: 0.18.1-10-g9c2490d4f
Welcome to ... UI: 0.18.1-rc.11 BE: 0.18.1-rc.10-1-g2a088cf02
Wow! UI: 0.18.1-rc.10 BE: 0.18.1-rc.9-1-gf0e487f18 is so much better. What a fun holiday weekend for everyone. Thank you for still being here!
Yes, the fediverse wants to be decentralized, so it is encouraged to use what works best for you. lemmy.sdfeu.org is located in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Here is where we're at now.
Thank you for everyone who stuck around and helped out, it is appreciated. We're working on additional suggested tweaks from the Lemmy community and hope to let lemmy.world try to DoS us again soon. Hopefully we'll do much better this time.
live updates in progress. Moved to SSDs, added more cores and 128GB and 64GB ram.
You're absolutely welcome to do that as it is your decision and you have many choices. We hope to build a community of folks that would like to help the fediverse grow and support smaller instances. Similar growing pains were seen during the twitter exodous last September.
It is temporary as lemmy.world was cascading duplicates at us and the only way to keep the site up reliably was to temporarily drop them. We're in the process of adding more hardware to increase RAM, CPU cores and disk space. Once that new hardware is in place we can try turning on the firehose. Until then, please patient.
We are working on improving load balancing today and distributing the instance across multiple servers. As a result, you may see some timeouts, thank you for your patience.
Could the Meta NDA be used as a trojan horse? Anything Meta discloses to a developer/admin could be legally used against them if they acted upon the information. Not just leak of information shared, but modifications to Mastodon or Pixelfed that go against Meta's pursuit of success in the Fediverse.
If you are offered a meeting with Meta and are required to sign an NDA, be sure to read it fully so that you understand what your obligations are and what freedoms and friends you give up.
We just made it past 1000 signups this morning. Nearly everyone joining had very thoughtful and meaningful explanations of why they want to try using this instance. It is an amazing time for the internet and we truly appreciate SDF being a part of this.
Earlier this morning SDF Chatter was upgraded for Lemmy 0.17.4.
RIght now we're trying out a few methods of distributing the service across multiple hosts much in the same way that we have grown the SDF Mastodon instance.
Thankfully, the Lemmy code is performing very well in its current configuration and the SDF community is growing at a moderate pace.
If the Fediverse does take on a full migration of the Reddit community whole, it would seem now is the time for that. A lot was learned from the Twitter migration last fall and while many instances were not prepared and scrambled to accommodate for folks, those communities have built the infrastructure since then and it is ready for you all.
How exciting is that?
Fediverse 2023!
On June 16th, 1987 the SDF-1 BBS received its first caller at 300 baud. Happy 36 years SDF!
Your keyboard is (probably) gross!
A ritual cleaning and cap refresh can be a spiritual experience
From what we learned last September with the spike in Mastodon usage, we're getting a head of things. We're setting up multiple Lemmy servers to help balance load on front end requests just as we do with Mastodon. So far, Lemmy's performance has been excellent with minimal resource usage, but distributing the load for pict-rs and front end requests should help us if we do indeed (and hopefully so) get a rush of new folks that want to leave reddit and grow the Fediverse.
The SDF Minecraft Server is now running PaperMC 1.19.4-550
SDF in 2004
It was created from scratch by SDF user laemeur who is a graphic artist/illustrator. We made stickers based off this design that are available in the https://sdf.org/?store