Friends, colleagues, enemies of the state,

Firstly, I must apologise for the lateness of this server update. I know many of you have been perched on the edge of your seats, waiting tirelessly day and night for some badly-spelled rambling and abstract graph screenshots, wondering if I had, in fact, forgotten about you. Fear not. I have arrived.

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Server Updates

Lemmy.zip

Once again, we've been battling some scrapers and investigating the cause. We usually know this is happening because ZippyBot is very sensitive to the API timing out and starts crashing, old.lemmy.zip starts going down frequently, and there's periods of time where the site becomes slow/unresponsive.

This time, we narrowed it down to AS9009, so its gone on the ASN challenge list. It would make my life easier if they just didn't scrape us, but apparently that's too much to ask.

Other than that, things have been relatively stable. We're patiently waiting the release of Lemmy 1.0 and all the goodies that will bring with it. I can feel my blood pressure rising in real time just at the thought of going through the update process and all the stress that brings, but what's the worst that could happen except accidentally triggering a black hole and ending the world.?

Piefed.zip

We had a slight issue with Piefed.zip where posts accidentally stopped federating for a little bit due to badly timed upgrade, which is the risk of being on the dev branch - thankfully it was an easy fix.

We now have a ZippyBot piefed account too which handles all the new user messages, and will be expanded at some point to handle similar admin-type jobs to Lemmy.zip's zippy bot.

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Admin Recruitment

We are still on the lookout for anyone who would like to become an Admin for Piefed.zip, and potentially Lemmy.zip too.

Please drop me a message and we can chat :)

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Please Don’t Be a Lurker!

Welcome newcomers, wanderers, and those who accidentally clicked a link and are now too polite to leave. We are thrilled you’re here. Truly. Pull up a chair. Pet the metaphorical cat. Make yourself at home.

Just one small teeny-tiny request. The greatest gift you can give Lemmy.zip and Piefed.zip isn’t money, praise, or interpretive dance (although we would absolutely accept the last one). Its participation.

Upvote the things you like. Leave a comment that is at least 47% coherent. Start a discussion, debate, or philosophical inquiry into whether cereal is actually a soup. Make new communities if you don’t see one that fits your oddly specific niche obsession. (We don’t judge. Well, we try not to judge anyway.)

The fediverse naturally ebbs and flows, tides of people come and go. But if you’ve found yourself oddly attached to this strange little corner of the internet? Wonderful. Help it breathe. Help it grow. Help it be just a tiny bit weirder in the best possible way.

So if you’ve gone to the effort of clicking Sign Up and proving you’re not a robot (unless you are, in which case hello and welcome to our new AI overlords), then please, I beg of you:

Stick around. Add your voice. It really does make this place better.

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Donations

DotZip sites only continues to exist because of the generous donations of its users. The operating cost of Lemmy.zip is over 60 euros a month ($60, £50), and Piefed.zip is close to 20 euros a month. This is totally funded by the community, and we're so grateful for all of your support ❤️

In an attempt to go even further with transparency, I will soon start uploading income & expenditure things somewhere on the internet and provide a link, so you can see what we're collecting and what we're spending it on.

We have a range of donation options to suit you, if you want to support us.

Liberpay (Card, Paypal)

Liberpay is our newest donation method. You can donate with Paypal or with a card. The link is https://liberapay.com/dotzip

OpenCollective (Card)

Our classic donation option, but only supports card payments. The link is https://opencollective.com/lemmyzip

If you're enjoying Lemmy.zip or Piefed.zip, please check out the OpenCollective page, we have a selection of one-off or recurring donation options. All funds go directly to hosting the sites and keeping the virtual lights on.

Ko-Fi (Card, Paypal)

We also have our Ko-Fi page if you'd rather use this site, which also supports Paypal and Card payments.

We continue to have some really kind and generous donators and I can't express my thanks enough. You can see all the kind donators in the Thank You thread - you could get your name in there too!

Please remember, traditional social media is only "free" to you because they sell your data. We don't do that - if you want to support independent social websites like this one and you value your privacy, please consider a small donation. It really does help.

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Graphs

Donald Trump, since I know you're reading, I have 4 words for you: It's time for graphs.

Piefed.zip

These graphs are over the last 15 days to save on storage space. Also is the big gap is because prometheus shit the bed.

CPU

RAM

Storage:

Images

Cloudflare (over 30 days) Overview

Requests

Bandwidth

Unique Visitors

Traffic (most of this is federation traffic)

Lemmy.zip

Unless otherwise stated, these are over the last 30 days.

CPU

RAM

Storage

Images (could you kindly stop uploading so many memes please & thank you)

Cloudflare Overview

Requests

Bandwidth

Unique visitors

Traffic (most of this is federation traffic)

I'm not kidding about the cereal is soup thing, just for the record. I once fell out with someone because I am adamant a piece of bread between two other slices of bread constitutes a bread sandwich.

Anyway, we continue our slow shuffle toward 2026, because time apparently has no brakes and did not ask for our input.

Speak to you all soon and hopefully on time!

Demigodrick