This reaks of embrace, extend, and extinguish.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

"I think it’d be really hard for me and for the team to kill Reddit in that way but that doesn't mean impossible."

I’ve never paid Reddit a dime but I’m going to signup for at least whatever gold costs. Fuck spez.

It’s digg v4 all over again.

You could just disable pict-rs in the config and instruct users to copy/paste the URL from another image host.

No way. I don't care if Lemmy doesn't succeed I'm never going to tolerate that shit. I stopped using Twitter when they killed third party apps and forced even more ads into their piece of shit app.

At home I have a Proxmox cluster consisting of two Dell R340 and one Intel NUC. There are 25 VM’s across all three machines. They do various development duties along with home assistant, plex, and Blue Iris. The rack lives in a closet under the stairs and I have fiber ran to my office. We did a massive renovation when we purchased so I wired the entire house since the walls were all opened. Average power draw is around 480 watts.

Here is a picture of the rack back when it was all R330. Those have since been sold and upgraded to R340. I added vents during the renovation. Inlet temps stay around the house ambient, and exhaust is about 20 degrees F hotter. I cover the front with additional sound baffles to better route fresh air and control noise. Its pretty much silent outside the closet.

This is the patch panel. I have perimeter cameras all the way around the house plus more than enough wifi access points. Each room also got 2x ethernet on each side, 4x total. My office has got 6x ethernet plus 4x fiber and a 2-inch conduit to pull whatever else I can think of later.

I use Grafana and custom-made scripts for monitoring and alerting. Most of the infrastructure is automated with scripts. One of these days Ill learn Ansible but I really enjoying just figuring it all out. This isn’t my job I just do it for fun. Here is the dashboard I run on one of my desk monitors.

I run my hobby websites, and my Lemmy instance, in the colo but its primary purpose is to be an offsite backup. Proxmox backup server performs best on SSD hence the large array. I also do a lot of travel for work so that’s my remote dev machine too. I run my own mail servers with some small VPSs acting as SMTP and IMAP bouncers to internal servers at home and in the colo working in parallel. HA proxy does the bouncing for high availability and dovecot and postfix do the heavy lifting with solr providing lighting fast search. I do use a third party for outbound mail for better deliverability.

Dell R350 - Colo Proxmox

• Intel E-2388G processor
• 128gb 3200 ECC ram
• Dell H755p raid
• 8x Crucial MX500 4TB in raid 6
• Samsung 990 2TB NVMe

Dell R340 - Proxmox Node 0

• Intel E-2278G processor
• 128gb 3200 ECC ram. Despite the spec sheets and irdrac saying these only support 64gb they run 128gb just fine.
• Ultrastar DC SN640 7.68TB NVMe
• Dell H810 Flash with LSI firmware. HBA for SC200 disk shelves.
• Mellanox CX354A @ 40GbE

Dell R340 - Proxmox Node 1

• Intel i3-9100T processor
• 64gb 2400T ECC ram
• Ultrastar DC SN640 7.68TB NVMe
• Intel X520-DA2 @ 2x 10gbe

Intel 7th Gen Nuc - Proxmox Node 2

• Intel i5-7260U processor
• 32gb 2400 ram
• Ultrastar DC SN640 7.68TB NVMe

This is mounted to the wall under my desk in a silent case. I use Verizon Wireless home internet as a backup and this server is the router. My entire closet rack can go offline and Ill still have internet access.

Dell R730 - GPU

• 2x Intel E5-2696 V4 processor
• 512gb 2400T ECC ram
• SanDisk Skyhawk 3.84TB NVMe
• 2x Nvidia P100 16gb GPU
• Intel X520-DA2 @ 2x 10gbe
• This one stays powered off when not in use. I built it to play around with tensorflow and AI but haven’t had much time.

Dell SC200 Disk Shelf 1

• 12x WD 8TB 5400 rpm shucked drives
• Single z2 pool
• Roughly 74 usable TB
• Cold backups of the primary array. Only powered on once a month to sync.

Dell SC200 Disk Shelf 2

• 12x HGST 10tb SAS drives
• 2x z2 pools
• Roughly 72 usable TB
• Primary storage array. Sitting at about 70% utilized so its time to upgrade.

Agreed. Beyond just no ads because I go out of my way to block them on my network and devices its nice to browse new and be able to have discussions instead seeing complete shit posts or popular ones with 1,000+ replies already.

We need to all post the content we want to see.

This reminds me of when digg blew it self up and everyone was complaining that Reddit wasn’t like digg. In time something good enough will come along if lemmy isn’t it. In the meantime I’m enjoying myself here.

Anything been taken over by the admins and turned back on yet?

Do you plan on allowing other users? If so every image they upload anywhere will be hosted from your instance. You would need a long term plan for continued storage if you do.

If it’s only yourself then not much. You would need space for your uploaded images and the database. Worst case you have to purge communities to free up DB space and re add them. It only tracks communities from the moment you add them. It doesn’t pull the entire history, and associated db size, into your instance.

I can pull the real numbers when I’m not on my phone but my database and maybe 150mb now. You can see all the communities I follow here so get a relative idea: https://lemmy.cablepick.net/communities My instance has been up for 4 days. I should start tracking db size growth to give others an idea of what to expect.

Yeah me too. It’s the only way we can make this work.

I’m curious to see how this all plays out. I’m running my own instance and it will be interesting to see if small instances get excluded on any large ones due to spam or abuse. Not that I plan on letting that happen with mine but I could see it has an anti abuse measure in the future.

You need to update your apt sources file. Here is the process. Run the following commands as root. Use sudo -s first to avoid having to prefix every command with sudo. This assumes you are running bullseye. If not you need to update to bullseye first.

Update your current installation first:
apt udpate
apt full-upgrade -y

Then upgrade:
sed -i 's/bullseye/bookworm/g' /etc/apt/sources.list
export LC_ALL=C
apt update
apt upgrade --without-new-pkgs -y
apt full-upgrade -y

Then reboot.

Let's all post there on our remaining accounts and get banned.

It won’t work well. Other instances make assumptions about paths as it’s standardized. For example they don’t store the full pictrs path, just the ID. It’s assumed the path is /pictrs/image. You would have to set 301 redirects. Other instances may link directly to your root uri when making links back to you. The api requests are also likely going to your root uri.

The front end can do whatever you want. Just change the paths typescript files before you compile as those also use root urls.

I have my instance setup to use a CDN and separate URL for all static content including pictrs. I have a script that modifies the front end while compiling to accomplish this. I use 301 redirects to fix all the assumed paths and requests from other instances.

:wq!

I've read that the anti cheat engines will be triggered by a virtual machine. Not sure which games you play but you might have issues if they are online.

I've blocked every ad I've ever seen on the app. I haven't used it in a while and I doubt I'll ever go back now.

The only thing left that I use it for is getting alerts about live police chases so I can tune in. Ill leave that going until those people move to other platforms.