Yes, there has been quite a lot of trolls and attacks on our server, so we're very careful about who we let on the team. I'm sure you'll understand.

The user was banned immediately. Also rate limiting has been put in place on community creation. (Removing the communities takes some time however..)

Thank you for all the compliments.

This ride reminds me of Mastodon.world in November. Details on that are here: https://blog.mastodon.world/and-then-november-happened

So I started lemmy.world on a 2CPU/4GB VPS. Keeping an eye on the performance. Soon I decided to double that. And after the first few thousand of users joined, doubled it again to 8CPU/16GB. That also was the max I could for that VPS type.

But, already I saw some donations come in, without really asking. That reminded me of the willingness to donate on Mastodon, which allowed me to easily pay for a very powerful server for mastodon.world, one of the reasons it grew so fast. Other (large) servers crashed and closed registrations, I (mainly) didn't.

So, I decided to buy the same large server (32cpu/64threads with 128GB RAM) as for masto (but that masto one has double the RAM). With the post announcing that, I also mentioned the donation possibilities. That brought a lot of donations immediately, already funding this server for at least 2 months. (To the anonymous person donating $100 : wow!).

Now next: to solve the issue with post slowness. That's probably a database issue.

And again: migration took 4 minutes downtime, and that could have been less if I wasn't eating pizza at the same time. So if any server wants to migrate: please do! If you have the userbase, you'll get the donations for it. Contact me if you have questions.

This is lemmy.world after 4 weeks:

58G	pictrs
34G	postgres

If any illegal content would be posted there, let us know. If it's 1 community, we can block the community. If it's all over the place, we can defederate. But I see defederation as a last resort. If there are other ways to keep our server safe I prefer that.

No, we did some rate limiting to try and fight off some attacks, but now some are too strict. We'll tune these so they won't bother you anymore.

Well .world is also managed partly from NL :-)

Restart is done. Enjoy!

Ooh I need to check the size of the custom emoji 😄

Yes, on the to-do list! Thanks!

Ask in their GitHub repo.

I'll check the new way Lemmy detects dead servers, it's possible an outage caused lemmy.ml to think we're dead (we're not!) :-)

Yeah, it didn't work. I reverted back.

Thanks for your reply. This site isn’t even a month old and the user growth is spectacular. Lemmy hasn’t ever been tested with these amounts of users.

I’m sure the devs are doing their best in getting it all more performant. Meanwhile the team at lemmy.world is trying to get a grip on what’s happening with federation. There’s not much to be found in logs, anyone who can help troubleshoot this let us know. The only real adjustable setting is the federation workers. We’ve apparently either set that too high or too low. I’m gonna set the log level back to info on the hopes we get some queue stats…

To be continued

My political views are not important, we just have a set of rules and as long as you follow these any decent polite discussion would be possible.

I'm also not going to ban ![email protected] just because I support a different team..

I host:

Fedi servers

• lemmy.world
• mastodon.world
• calckey.world
• pool.social
• musicworld.social
• akkoma.nl
• ruud.social
• fotofed.nl
• fediland.nl
• blog.mastodon.world
• play-my.video

Software I use

• Nginx Proxy Manager
• Portainer
• Kimai
• Xwiki (3 of them)
• Cryptpad
• Grafana
• Hedgedoc
• Matrix/Synapse
• Thelounge
• Vaultwarden
• Gitea
• Nextcloud
• Paperless-ngx
• Zabbix
• Zammad

Probably forgot some..

Anything that the family uses. Because when I cease to exist, my wife isn't gonna take over self-hosting! So e-mail, chat, documents etc.

Hmm. Seems to work for me.. (Yes this is a test reply)

Hmm, best would be if those kids find a real hobby so they stop bothering us. On the other hand, it helps us understand Lemmy better and secure it.

Good point, I'll update the post.