Its now running on a dedicated server with 6 cores/12 threads and 32 gb ram. I hope this will be enough for the near future. Nevertheless, new users should still prefer to signup on other instances.

This server is financed from donations to the Lemmy project. If you want to support it, please consider donating.

  • ahimsabjorn@lemmy.mlEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    Please know that your work is genuinely appreciated in fascilitating the migration from Reddit to Lemmy. Your efforts will hopefully ensure a bright future for communities on this platform. Kudos @nutomic@lemmy.ml !

  • Dreyns@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    Just started supporting this instance on liberapay, if other follow you’ll hopefully be able to upgrade the potato soon !

  • mst@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    This new machine is speedy! Getting pretty much instant loading times. Thank you to the donators, I will be joining you soon!

  • BajakLaut@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    The server has become more responsive definitely. I thought my internet routing was so shitty that it took so long to load the site. Nice!

    • Catsrules@lemmy.ml
      1·
      1 year ago

      I was getting 502 Bad Gateway. When I pinged Lemmy.ml I got an IPV6 address. It disabled IPV6 on my local computer and now when I ping I get a IPV4 IP address it works now.

      I am wondering if DNS is screwed up on the IPV6 network for Lemmy.ml.

      Note. This could totally be something on my end, I really haven’t done much with IPV6 but it did solve the 502 Error so I might do the same for you.

      Edit. I had a few people say turning off IPV6 on their end fixes the 502 Bad Gateway, so it looks like it has something to do with IPV6.

      • Techviator@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Thanks for mentioning the IPv6, I’ve been banging my head all day trying to figure out why I kept getting the 502 yet no one was complaining anywhere and isitdown was showing the server as Up.

        I forces my DNS to resolve only IPv4 for lemmy.ml and now I can use it.

        My suspicion is that nginx is misconfigured and not listening via IPv6. Or maybe the AAAA record is pointing to the wrong IPv6 address.

        @nutomic@lemmy.ml Thanks for upgrading the server!

      • nutomic@lemmy.mlOPM
        2·
        1 year ago

        You are right, I forgot to configure IPv6. Will be fixed shortly.

        Edit: Should be fixed now.

  • tinselsnips@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Are there still issues with cross-instance content? Previously, if I signed in to lemmy.ca and subscribed to a channel on .ml, I didn’t see all content. Likewise, if I left a comment from my .ca account, it wouldn’t necessarily show up for users on .ml.

    If this is still a problem, it’s a HUGE roadblock in being able to just tell people to join other instances, if we don’t want to fracture an existing community.

    Edit: That may have simply been a result of the excess load?

  • Emi@beehaw.orgEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Have we explored the possibility of “porting” the larger communities to other instances? It seems that many of us simply wish to subscribe to the largest (insert type of community here) and can do so from various home instances. Might lower demand on this specific instance at the very least.

  • anugeshtu@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Thank you for your hard work! Although I kinda foresee for the future if Lemmy really would become the new “reddit” with such servers and millions of users, wouldn’t that also rise the server costs and ultimately make the hosts dependent on asking money for it, maybe by a paywall or by ads? I think to make this community really be “free” without any host responsible for spending a huge amount of money for servers, the best solution would be to make the actual “servers” be a p2p cluster. Unfortunately I’m not quite sure how to realize that without losing a huge fraction of the model if a lot of nodes (i.e., the actual users) are offline. Sorry, I’m just brainstorming.

    • orthizaR@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I would love a social network powered by the users that are using it. Maybe also running something like serverless functions on the client devices.

      • narF@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        You might want to check the Earthstar project: https://earthstar-project.org/ They are working on that. Right now, it’s super early; they are building the foundations. Peer-to-peer is unfortunately much more difficult to code then servers, because less people have built the building-blocks required, and because mobile phones are actively making it hard to run peer-to-peer apps.

  • Unkechaug@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I can feel the difference already. Really enjoying it here and while I wouldn’t let some technical difficulties stop me, I think it will help grow the community. Thank you!