Hey everyone - quick updated on the state of the instance.

1. Still planning on going offline indefinitely. Moving stuff happening soon. Since I hadn't updated with any news yet, going to try to keep things online for around another week.

2. I'm reasonably confident I'll be able to bring the instance back... eventually. Might be in a week, might be in a few months. I plan on sending out messages to registration emails to let people know we're back, whenever that is.

Thank you for the well wishes in both comments and DMs. It means a lot.

As before, shoot me a DM if you want to stay in touch on Discord where you can nag me and ask when things will be back up, if you want.

Stay cool out there.

Hi Everyone.

Please excuse the potentially rambling nature of this post, as I'm a bit drunk and emotional.

It's been a while - I know our tiny little Lemmy instance isn't the biggest or most active ever, and I mostly lurk myself these days.

Still, I truly have faith in the promises of a kinder, federated internet, in spite of the events of the recent presidential election in the US.

Running this site has been a fun hobby for me. I'm especially grateful to all of y'all that stuck around and continue to use it as your portal to the fediverse. I learned some things about deploying web services, got to see some funny memes, and it overall was a pretty pleasant time.

This site runs on personal server hardware that I maintain myself. As I wanted to keep the scope and costs small as a hobby project, I chose not to go with any hosting provider or other service, and I elected to be the sole admin of the instance.

For personal reasons, due to the US presidential election, It's not going to be safe for me to continue to live where I currently do. This is going to require a pretty big upheaval of my life and work - caught in that upheaval is my ability to continue hosting this server for the indefinite future. I'd love to continue participating in the fediverse as a server host someday, but that's not going to be possible for me for a while.

I don't have a set date to take everything offline yet, but possumpat.io will be taken offline indefinitely sometime before the new administration is inaugurated on Jan 20, 2025. When I have a more concrete date available, I will share as an edit in this post.

I plan on keeping a backup of the database and everything, so if I'm ever in a position to be able to bring back our humble little possum space, I'll do so.

If you're one of the few still using the site, again I thank you. If you want to stay in touch for a potential revival in the future, or just 'cuz, shoot me a DM and I'll invite you to the mod discord (it's pretty dead silent in there, there's not much to mod with how well reports are handled cross-instance now).

Keep being cool out there my fediverse friends, and stay safe.

Go nuts, post all the spoilers here.

Not pinning this one so nobody wanders in on accident. 🙂

Hey Everyone! Friendly neighborhood mod here. As EA launch is less than 3 weeks away, a quick note on how we're handling spoilers here.

Please put all Dawntrail story discussion behind spoiler tags / content warnings (outside of the unmarked spoiler thread)

Go here if you want to discuss things spoiler-tag-free.

If you see any unmarked spoilers elsewhere, feel free to report 'em.

FFXIV traffic here on my humble Lemmy instance is still pretty chill, but I'd figure I'd get out ahead of the problem just in case. See you all in Tural!

Hey everyone, just a quick update on the downtime earlier this morning.

CSAM was posted to a community we federate with by a user from kbin.cafe, so I've taken the following actions:

• Purged that user and related media upload links from our database.
• Defederated from kbin.cafe, as their admin seems to have mostly abandoned the site.
• Upgraded to the release candidate of Lemmy 0.19, since it has new admin/moderation features that'll make handling cases like this easier in the future.

On the bright side, Lemmy 0.19 has some fancy new performance improvements and improved post ranking options! Stay tuned for a full feature overview soon from the Lemmy project folks.

(Edit) Here's some updates on 0.19 and breaking changes:

https://possumpat.io/post/1123074

https://possumpat.io/post/1639282

(Edit2)

We're now updated to the full 0.19 release!

As always, if you have any questions or concerns let me know.

Hey everyone! Quick instance update.

You may have noticed some server instability over the past few weeks with the site being slow or unresponsive. Today I upgraded the database hardware to better handle the federation traffic volume, so far seems like everything is humming along much more smoothly. 🎉

Over the past day, large lemmy instances were vandalized with CSAM spam. To ensure possumpat.io has no caching of these images, I'm rolling back the image database by a few days and currently pausing new image uploads.

You might see some server downtime as maintenance is done around this.

Even more performance updates! I was a bit slow getting this one rolled out as I was at FFXIV fanfest. 🙂

As always, let me know if you have any problems or questions.

Full changelog can be found here.

As you may have seen, lemmy.world was recently compromised due to an attacker gaining access to an Administrator account.

This exploit is related to the custom emoji feature, so as a precaution the few custom emoji we had so far have been removed.

As the attack involves hijacking an already logged-in account session, all user sessions have been reset - just in case any possumpat.io account was compromised while we had custom emoji enabled. I apologize for the inconvenience.

I'll update this post once we know more, and as always if you have any questions let me know.

Edit: For those interested in the technical details, this github thread details the vulnerability and ongoing efforts to mitigate it.

Edit: lemmy.world's post on the hack.

Edit: Exploit has been patched, will re-enable custom emoji soon.

Many backend performance improvments and some tweaks to the default web UI.

I'm personally seeing an issue with the update right now - The site theme is sometimes getting confused between light and dark mode. If you are encountering this, let me know. In the meantime, choosing a site theme in your user settings seems to fix the mixup.

Hey everyone! Admin of possumpat.io here.

It's been a amazing to watch this community grow on my humble little possum themed instance. As far as I can tell, it's the largest FFXIV community on Lemmy so far. Neat!

In an attempt to be proactive and anticipating more growth, I'd like to try and bring on a couple more moderators to help keep things going smoothly. There haven't been any issues that need moderation so far on !ffxiv - but it doesn't hurt to be prepared, especially if this community continues to grow.

If you would like to be a moderator for [email protected] (or any other possumpat.io community), shoot me a DM and we'll chat.

Discussion thread for episode 24 of Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury.

Discussion thread for episode 23 of Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury.

I was up late enough to make the thread for once 🙂

With the upgrade to 0.18, we now have custom emoji support!

Feel free to suggest any emoji you like in the comments.

Lots of performance and UI improvements! As always let me know if anything seems missing or broken.

Come talk about your favorite steeped beverages with us at [email protected]

https://possumpat.io/c/tea

As requested in the meta thread, here's a space for discussing tea and tea related things. I'm not a big tea person, so I'd love some suggestions for an icon/banner/sidebar description. Let me know in the comments!

Don't let your soul be weighted down by reddit gravity: [email protected]

https://possumpat.io/c/gundam

Come see our cute lil' marsupial friends at [email protected]

https://possumpat.io/c/possums

Come join us at [email protected]. It's Weevil Wednesday!

https://possumpat.io/c/bugmenagerie