How can people afford to host an instance? Aren’t there costs to hosting a server?

my instance (currently only 18 users) is on a basic server plan costing me +- $7,- a month. When that's becoming much higher I'll ask for donations to help me out (and I'll be fully transparent on the current server costs and how much is donated)

every instance is sharing in the traffic to browse the fediverse. Not one service is responsible for serving content, you (the instance admin) are only serving for your members.

The downside of this is there is a huge amount of replicated data stored everywhere. Content of popular communities will be scraped by and stored on many many servers, filling up servers and increasing storage and bandwith bills for all those servers

Where can I find these stats?

oh it's visible because I'm admin/ mod ?

with what purpose ? posting stuff, or some other use ?

yes, they are hosted on the server that is running the Lemmy instance. But every other instance that is linked to that instance will 'scrape' all posts incl images and store them on they're own server. So posts and images are served from the instance you yourself are a member of

yes. running a server costs money. I have lemmyfly.org running just 2 days now on digitalocean using a cheap 1GB ram, 25GB diskspace and 1000GB bandwidth for $7,- a month. Storing images on the server will eventually take up all space and bandwidth meaning you have to upscale -> pay more.

Using a different location for storing images and/ or videos is best to offload the instance !

Thanks for mentioning your provider, their prices are a lot cheaper then DO !

Is it not msfs more gamyfied? I wonder if the realism will suffer, to accomodate gamers

Mine too I see now. You can only ban a user when they have posted something right ? There is no list for admins of all users registered ? Maybe I'll do it direct in the database..

I do, and looking forward to contribute. I'm not a UX designer though...

it does 😀

or the community you are posting to doesn't allow Undetermined language, and that's what you've selected. There is no error handling for that yet

it helped me for sure in knowledge of instrumentation, navigation, atc phraseology, aerodynamics, those kind of things. I started gliding recently, actual plane handling is a complete different ball game - I don't touch the gliders in the sim because of learning the wrong things. But I think simulation really helps with getting more comfortable with all other aspects than actual flying.

only pictures and posts that the instance-member are subscribed to, and from the moment they interacted with it. But yes, I'm curious to see where this goes.

I noticed it when I was looking in the database and disk on my instance, where there are already thousands of posts and more then a thousand images - while my own instance only has a couple of posts and images

yep, same issue I had! the link :) https://lemmy.one/post/36440

after changing the docker-compose.yml file you have to destroy and up the postfix container

docker-compose stop postfix && docker-compose rm postfix
docker-compose up -d

after changing your lemmy.hjson file, just restart the lemmy container.

it definitely needs some UX attention

For me it were the last 30 or something entries in local_user. They all didn’t have email_verified. I access the db through Postico. Also removed all other older accounts that didn’t verify their email address

Beautiful :) And welcome!

Good idea thanks :)