I'd like to apologize to everyone for doing this on such short notice and not being able to get it stable. It's been a fun ride but it's clear that it ended a long time ago. I'll see you all on db0.

Some more specifics:

• The instance will lock registration and community creation on October 1st. There doesn't seem to be a way to disable posts and comments rn so ig it'll be left on. I'll be keeping the instance up for the foreseeable future for archival reasons.
• Frontends will be kept up.

For anyone wondering what "Rammy" is and why it's on this list: ::: spoiler Screenshots

(Okay, I included the last post cause I thought it was funny, but it goes to show the type of people on there. If this isn't convincing, then go take a look at the instance yourself. Not linking it here but it's very easy to find.) :::

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Thanks for pointing this out - we're focusing on bringing the instance itself back up so we haven't gotten around to bringing everything else back, including blocked instance settings. I added back e-h and lg to that list.

As for Rammy, I started discussions in staff chats. Personally I'm for defederating but it's best not to use the nuclear option without everyone else's opinions. That being said, if anyone has a strong case for / against defederation, feel free to reply here. Here's our defed policy in case it's needed.

EDIT: nvm everyone agreed within literally 1 minute that we should defed. added it to the list. new policy post here

We get it, you're a lolicon. Don't try to hide it, we can all tell :)

The old instance had its own problems (mainly pictrs not working) but its mainly because I was the only active sysadmin on this new instance. The old one had multiple and while I had some help from db0 and a few others, I was still essentially the only person maintaining it.

yeah it looks better but i am NOTTTT paying $10/mo for that

Thank you but money wouldn't help. (Unless you had like $100 to hire a specialist and figure out the federation problems.) Not to mention the main reason for switching is the amount of people on db0 compared to here (and we both essentially did the same thing, mainly piracy focused)

The biggest problem with having other platforms is:

1. Another platform we have to maintain and manage
2. Needs to be non-bannable (so no twitter/x, discord, so on)
3. Needs to be at least usable (which is why divolt was chosen over matrix and IRC, and will prevent usability issues that we've had with firefish and lemmy)

If you can suggest a good platform that meets the last two, then maybe. But it's pretty unlikely we'll have another one. (I mean, Lemmy itself is already having problems and I'm pretty much the only person on it now, adding another platform isn't gonna help with that.)

With how cloudflare is setup, there technically is, but it's also bullshit. Basically they have two certificates for SSL (which allows for https): example.com and *.example.com. These cover everything from example.com to superlongsubdomain.example.com, but NOT, say, a.b.example.com. That would require something like *.b.example.com.

This is kinda BS though, as certificates are pretty much free nowadays. I guess it saves on server load? But it's so minimal that there really is no reason to charge for it, especially not with a monthly subscription. ($120/yr for certs!!)

wrong - the server was lasting only 8 seconds after reboots 😊

Firefish seems to be more broken than Lemmy sadly

See my above comment about this. (Also what instances even allow piracy? And which ones aren't already blocked by everyone else, or would be trustworthy enough to not ban FMHY?)

thank you :)

It's possibly one of two things:

1. You're trying to upload a file larger than allowed (1MB)
2. The image service is fucking broken again

If it's the latter then I'm not dealing with that cause holy fucking shit I nearly blew my brains out while trying to troubleshoot the downtime... go upload on imgbb or somewhere else if that's the case

Ah, I thought you were suggesting another platform like Lemmy and Divolt. For announcements I'm thinking of adding a simple status page hosted on GH pages or on the server this is running on (but I'm waiting on the other staff members for their thoughts.) For wiki updates, Reddit still exists.

We started running an Uptime Kuma instance on M4D's servers. I'll post any status notices there.

It was just a file permissions issue on my end after switching to Ansible, ran chmod -R a=rwx where pictrs was located. (This probably won't help with db0.)

We started running an Uptime Kuma instance on M4D's servers. I'll post any status notices there.

AFAIK no. And since this is a Lemmy instance and not a Kbin one I probably won't put one on here