I setup a chatmail relay yesterday, so if you want to try Delta Chat (or other compatible apps like Arcane), go ahead!

This is totally awesome, Drum n Bass with a symphonic orchestra.

This Saturday we will move the Friendica.World database to a new server. The current server's disks were full and couldn't be extended.

We will start at around 19:30 CEST (https://www.inyourowntime.zone/2025-10-11_19.30_Europe.Amsterdam)

Update 11-10-2025

We have run a rsync of the database, but when running a second rsync, we noticed this still takes many hours. So we decided to bring down friendica.world now (11:15 CEST) so the rsync of the data will be finished this evening.

There was no time to find another solution like database replication, because the disk will be full after this weekend.

Second update 11-10-2025

The database migration was finished, and after it was checked that all was running fine, we also did the upgrade to Friendica 2025.07-rc Everything seems to run OK. From here, we will do further troubleshooting into performance issues that still exist. Also, we plan to add 1 or 2 extra VMs for the frontend.

I just upgraded my Macbook Pro to MacOS 26 Tahoe, and after that I didn't have internet connection anymore. It was connected to the wi-fi, but couldn't reach the internet or my network.

In my case, this seemed to be caused by Little Snitch, which I had installed. I disabled it by removing it under Settings > Network > Filters (and I removed the program as well just to be sure), and after a reboot the internet was back.

I hope this helps anyone with the same issue.

The latest blog post about our .world and the Fedihosting Foundation. As you can read in the blog, the donations are no longer covering our running costs. If you are able to spare a few Euro's or dollars or whatever currency, please check the list of our donation platforms in the blog.

Edit: I will add these to the blog: https://bunq.me/fhf (for EU bank transfers) https://github.com/sponsors/Fedihosting-Foundation (Github Sponsor)

The default page for Friendica is the 'Network' page (https://friendica.world/network), but that loads very slow, almost always getting into a time-out.

Going to other pages mostly works, for example https://friendica.world/community

I have now enabled the 'Startpage' addon, where you can set the page you want as the default landing after logging in. I have set it to 'community'. You can change it here: https://friendica.world/settings/addons

We are trying to get the latest RC version (2025.07-RC) of Friendica installed today. Taking an extra backup of the DB is taking some time.

Update: The upgrade has been tested but we ran into an issue, which we filed here: https://github.com/friendica/friendica/issues/14998

We have taken the opportunity to optimize the database, and have now restarted friendica.world awaiting a solution to the issue before we upgrade.

At this moment, friendica.world is not stable. You can experience 504 or 503 errors, or just be unable to load the site.

This is being worked on. We'll keep track of the currently known issues in this post.

Database query tuning

One of the main issues at the moment is the database hanging with many inefficient queries running for minutes or even hours. Most of them are using an inefficient 'NOT IN' or similar construction. We've created an issue for that here: https://github.com/friendica/friendica/issues/14947

Also we've created an issue for many updates to a key-value table: https://github.com/friendica/friendica/issues/14948

Update 30-06-2025

The beforementioned issues were closed, we'll upgrade to 2025.07-RC in order to get the latest fixes and do troubleshooting from there. We'll send the slow qeury logs to the devs.

Update 03-10-2025

It has been a while, so here's a long overdue update. In the last update I mentioned installing 2025.07-RC, which we did in test. But we noticed it broke the media (S3 plugin).
This issue has been raised, and it seems it has been fixed but not yet pushed (see https://github.com/friendica/friendica/pull/15158#issuecomment-3289713892). Looks like it's close. If this has been fixed, we can re-try installing the update on test, and if it works, on prod.

We're now looking into another issue, which is the diskspace running out. Partly because of performance issues with cleanup jobs, the database is growing very rapidly. And as this is a physical server, we can't easily extend storage. So we're looking into options to extend the space without introducing a big extra cost.

Update 05-10-2025

We have ordered extra disks for the DB server.

Update 06-10-2025

Apparently this server only had room for 1 extra disk. We need 2 extra disks, so we can mirror them. We now decided to get a 'new' auction server for Friendica's database, with more disk. The server we ordered also has more CPU cores and RAM so that's a bonus.

We'll migrate the database soon, and will announce the downtime here.

Update 08-10-2025

Two updates:

• We've planned the db migration for this Saturday Oct 11th.
• A PR is ready which fixed the issue with the S3 addon for the Friendica update. We've tested this fix on the Dev instance and it works. Once the PR is merged and the docker image updated, we can upgrade prod.

Update 04-11-2025

The database has been migrated to the larger server, and today we also rescaled the 2 app servers to a larger plan, so they have double CPU and RAM.

I found this community te be without moderators. Is anyone willing to moderate the community, and maybe keep some content coming in?

Finally a new blog post about all our instances and the finances..

cross-posted from: https://toast.ooo/post/3740832

turns out I did my math wrong, so it’s a little less than 30 days

July 12th, 2024 @ midnight EDT

https://canvas.fediverse.events

✨ this year’s event also supports the entire fediverse not just Lemmy!

(you have to be able to make/receive text posts, like mastodon, lemmy, pixelfed, etc) (peertube accounts will not work)

you can get update announcements on other fedi platforms with @[email protected] link

chat about Canvas on Matrix or Discord (they’re bridged)

Woo-hoo today's my cake-day on Lemmy.world.. actually I'm the first here but many will follow the next days. Happy cake day to you all!

Currently we have an images issue. Our Wasabi (S3) account was disabled because of some illegal content that was found, we're working with them to get the account re-enabled and the content removed.

[Update 20240308 14:47 UTC] The issue has been fixed.

Tezzting

Have a good weekend!

Normally not a fan of Eurovision music, with some exceptions. But this year's entry for The Netherlands is a very nice 90's happy harcore tune. Pays-bas douze points

There's some unrest because the Open Collective Foundation is stopping.

Don't worry, we use Open Collective Europe as a donations platform, they're going nowhere.

We've added some donation platforms, so if you would like to support us running our .world servers, you can do so here:

• Ko-Fi‬ (Preferred because of low fees)
• Liberapay
• PayPal
• Patreon
• OpenCollective
• Bunq

And for those wanting to donate crypto:

• Monero address: 83tnuFN4f28jRxTBW9qGDad2U23qNE5nfeW4Pfyd85oWMW7J9gqpXi3S8FDbX5uEeCAKcGnSpS2XT5dGwYiELthg8XuDrxH
• Cardano address: addr1v9qv6xvfwcx9ny56uag4umu6238sw2e7ff2kcxl3qe7p9esayjxgu

Thank you!

[Edit] Some of the links were broken, they should now all work! [Edit 20240314: Added Liberapay]