Would people be interested in a community dedicated to discussing lemmy's in general but, specifically aussie zone's growth?

I'm thinking a pretty wide ranging set of ideas including,

• exposure and promotion of fediverse-lemmy-aussie zone,
• discussions on server structures and dispersal of user-bases,
• philosophical discussions on growth as an objective in the case of lemmy,
• discussions on different platforms aussie zone users might want to gather round as the potential use cases of the federated social web start to be explored.

I'm thinking like [email protected] , but a sister community that has regard to aussie zone user's corner of the fediverse.

To be used by aussie zone as a general compass setting and project brainstorming community for how we might like to develop, if at all.

Or is [email protected] the better place for these sorts of discussions?

There's no communities I think need better moderation, or any that have no active mods (that I know of), but if there is one day, can somebody make a request to have ownership or moderation powers transferred over to them?

Hey all, following the work over the weekend we're now running Lemmy 0.19.4. please post any comments, questions, feedback or issues in this thread.

One of the major features added has been the ability to proxy third party images, which I've enabled. I'll be keeping a closer eye on our server utilisation to see how this goes...

This weekend I'll be working to upgrade AZ to lemmy 0.19.4, which requires changes to some other back end supporting systems.

Expect occasional errors/slowdowns, broken images etc.

Once complete, I'll be making further changes to enable/tweak some of the new features.

UPDATE: one of the back end component upgrades requires dumping and reimporting the entire lemmy database. This will require ~1 hour of total downtime for the site. I expect this to kick off tonight ~9pm Perth time.

UPDATE2: DB dump/re-import going to happen ~6pm Perth time, ie about 10 minutes from this edit.

UPDATGE3: we're back after the postgres upgrade. Next will be a brief outage for the lemmy upgrade itself... after I've had dinner 🙂

UPDATE34: We're on lemmy 0.19.4 now. I'll be looking at new features/settings and playing around with them.

I know there's been a few posts about this before, but it's been a month since the last one and it's still ongoing. It doesn't seem that any of the LW admins responded to Zag's post on their help community, and the last response from lodion/Nath I'm aware of was from 4 months ago when there were outright federation failures as opposed to just lengthy delays.

@[email protected] posted a comment on the post from last month about the delays stating that it's an issue on our end as our server isn't keeping up. I'm not sure whether this is the case or not, and I'm not sure how to interpret the Grafana dashboard they linked to, but as it's a new reply on an old post, I wanted to note it.

Current federation delays seem to be around 7 days. It doesn't seem to be affecting posts themselves on Lemmy.world communities, but does affect all replies to them (even from users on other instances), and all upvotes on the posts. [Edit: on further investigation, this isn't the case. The current delays are at least 13 days, and this does actually affect posts too]

I don't want to sound too pushy, since the LW admins and Lodion/Nath are all volunteers, but I was hoping we might be able to get an update on what the cause is, and if it's an issue in Lemmy itself, if anybody's opened an issue on GitHub and the developers are aware.

(NB: I don't interact that much with LW, so all of my testing has been on the Boost for Lemmy community.)

Hey all, can anyone tell me the date we're gona land on for the first anniverssary?

I guess it'll be when the instance was spun up? Or i don't know, maybe when it was a twinkle in Lodion's eye?

Its been a little while since I posted stuff :)

CPU:

Memory:

Network:

Storage:

Cloudflare caching:

Comments:
Not much has changed in quite a while. I still have a cron-job running to restart Lemmy every day due to memory leaks, hopefully this improves with future updates. Outside of that, CPU, memory and network usage are fine.
Object storage usage is growing steadily, but we're a long way from paying more than the monthly minimum Wasabi fee.

I know when things first kicked off we would get server updates semi-regularly such as finances and server load. I can’t say I’ve seen one for a while, just wondering how things are going?

Posted a query in the LW support channel to see if anyone there has any idea.

Just thought I'd give people a heads-up. I've just noticed some upvotes and posts haven't federated from lemmy.world to aussie.zone .

Hopefully it's just delays again, and they'll work their way through the queue reasonably soon.

Comments, votes don't appear to be federating for one of the last posts I made over at [email protected].

https://aussie.zone/post/7871931

https://lemmy.world/post/13089616

I'm still seeing cases where comments don't seem to be federating correctly. For example:

I'm not sure what the cause is, but the last few days it seems more of my comments are failing to federate than are succeeding.

~~I'll be restarting AZ today for an update to lemmy 0.19.~~

Upgrade complete.

This is a major upgrade, so I expect there to be some issues. Strap in, enjoy the ride.

Expect:

• further restarts
• bugs
• slowdowns
• logouts
• 2FA being disabled
• possibly issues with images, upgrading pictrs to 0.4 at the same time

Meta threads will open federation to the fediverse soon, and while this is mainly to mastodon it will still affect lemmy. They are acting like they won't be evil, but let's be real this is Facebook when have they ever done that.

This article which has been trending lately explains some of the issues. https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

This comment here is a simple analogy if you can't be bothered reading the article. https://lemmy.ca/comment/5702922

@[email protected]

I'm kicking off a storage upgrade on the server, expect it to proceed in the next 15 minutes and be back online shortly after.

I was wondering whether there's any appetite to host alternative frontends? I've been using Alexandrite a bit recently, and really liking it (though would be more comfortable sending my login credentials directly to aussie.zone instead of hoping everything's legit), and some other servers are hosting that or something like Voyager for a mobile-first iOS-styled interface.

e.g.

• Voyager - https://m.lemmy.world
• Alexandrite - https://a.lemmy.world

I've just removed a post that had c*&t in the title. I'm not going to get into specific rules, but I don't want that language in post titles. In comments etc in context, fine. But post titles are displayed to all users without the possibility of being filtered.

Please think of others when posting.

We love our Tassie comrades. They deserve a spot on the Aussie Zone icon.

GMEAustralia "A place for koalas to discuss GAMESTOP"

Logo ebgames https://yt3.ggpht.com/a-/AAuE7mAWx42ESVuu1M4h0PCt-FXkiuUe58rOLsVboA=s900-mo-c-c0xffffffff-rj-k-no

Sister to GMECanada https://lemmy.ca/c/gmecanada

Analogous to Reddit GMEmate

Apologies if I'm just doing something wrong, but I seem to be having patchy results loading up communities from other instances.

E.g. this works fine: https://aussie.zone/c/[email protected]

On the other hand, this gives 404 community_not_found: https://aussie.zone/c/[email protected]

(And it definitely exists, see here: https://lemmy.world/c/music )

Any ideas?

Not sure if it's happening to anyone else, but my MalwareBytes Browser Guard keeps trying to block this Instance whenever I try to access it. Anyone know possible reasons for this? Thanks in advance for any help.

Hi @[email protected] , I'm new to Lemmy and looking for a home instance, being Australian, aussie.zone seems to fit the bill.
I see one of the instance rules is "No porn".
I also see that there exists other instances such as lemmynsfw.com.
But I don't appear to be able to subscribe to the communities there.

I can see their safe for work community: https://aussie.zone/c/[email protected] but not an actual community with content such as: https://aussie.zone/c/[email protected]

Have I simply misconfigured something, or will aussie.zone not allow me to federate to nsfw communities?

I'm currently userhomed on aussie.zone and reading the All feed I see activity from an instance I have absolutely no desire to see any content from on any of their communities, but I do still want to engage in discovery via the All feed - can I block out this undesirable instance at all?