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Lemmy.ml will have around 1-2 hours of downtime tomorrow, Friday at 1430 CEST. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Doing some server upgrade testing.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

have fun touching grass nerds!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 hours ago

Might end up actually doing my job

[–] [email protected] 7 points 12 hours ago

It's all dirty

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

I'll take sleeping pills to get through it.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 13 hours ago

Sorry, that doesn’t work for me 😐

[–] [email protected] 13 points 14 hours ago

That's dinner time for me and tomorrowI'll be having a first date dinner: we both hope there are going to be good news after those two hours.
Good luck to the both of us!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Ah yes, the good old “testing in production” 😆

Good luck!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

Chad Lemmy vs Virgin Reddit

[–] [email protected] 16 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

i'm a software engineer and i've worked in IT for 15 years before that. i'd like to pay back how much i've been enjoying .ml

how can i help?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 13 hours ago

https://www.patreon.com/dessalines

Dessalines is the head Lemmy developer and .ml admin

[–] [email protected] 21 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Contribute code on github!

[+] [email protected] -10 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

i want to contribute to .ml and minimize how much of my effort goes to .world or .shitjustworks; i think my IT experience would be more beneficial to this end.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Best way to decentralize users more would probably be to make your own instance. .world is certainly centralizing Lemmy's userbase too much right now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

no reddit diaspora sites has ever survived and no instance on the lemmyverse has the critical mass of users necessary to recreate reddit's subreddit communities.

the people looking for a reddit alternative will leave and .world will become like any other instance after .worlders start to miss the niche content enough.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

As for this valid focus on critical mass of users, perhaps a linked tags approach is better than a multiple-communities structure, until specific tags gain enough friction to become communities. Just thinking.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

i had a similar thought when i used to spend most of my time on .world and felt that the lemmyverse was lacking where reddit was overflowing.

i haven't felt that way since i've switched instances and found more content than i could ever finish reading/watching/learning from other lemmy-ites.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

lemmy.ml runs on the vanilla Lemmy codebase, so from a software development standpoint, you mostly can’t pick & choose which instances you’re helping. You can work on whichever features/GitHub tickets you’d like to see on lemmy.ml (though keep in mind that a few features are optional/configurable, and the lemmy.ml admins and/or user base might not want some enabled. It’s a good idea to read the room before investing the effort).

[–] [email protected] 20 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

So you don’t want to contribute to the Lemmy project, because other instances might benefit from it?

[–] [email protected] -5 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (2 children)

they already have plenty of support; but if that's the only way to contribute then i'll do it.

is it?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

As others mentioned, you can either donate code or money. If you want to help Lemmy.ml the most, I recommend the Patreon linked above since it goes straight to the Lemmy.ml admin (who very much needs cash to stay afloat because he's been working on Lemmy full-time for years, for peanuts)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

thank you for that

[–] [email protected] 12 points 15 hours ago

You can contribute monetarily, check https://join-lemmy.org

[–] [email protected] 15 points 18 hours ago

Good luck with the testing!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 17 hours ago

second-plane

[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Of course right after I start work 😢 but forreal thanks for all the work y'all do.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago

Thanks!

[–] [email protected] -1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

More like clown time

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

Got ‘em.