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FediLore + Fedidrama

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Chronicle the life and tale of the fediverse (+ matrix)

Largely a sublemmy about capturing drama, from fediverse spanning drama to just lemmy drama.

Includes lore like how a instance got it's name, how an instance got defederated, how an admin got doxxed, fedihistory etc

(New) This sub's intentions is to an archive/newspaper, as in preferably don't get into fights with each other or the ppl featured in the drama

Tags: fediverse news, lemmy news, lemmyverse

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to start: we’re going to start staggering when we approve people a little more–at this point, we’ve literally doubled our existing userbase. registrations today will be processed at a slower pace while we talk over how much further we want to let things go, and at what pace we want to continue letting people in so things don’t become truly overwhelming.

if you’d like to introduce yourself without it getting lost in all the posts already made, i just made a thread for that over here

our sidebar should give you most of the information you’re looking for about us, but to reiterate some: we are pretty relaxed here, but we have a well carved out understanding of what we want to be. if you would like more elaboration on that, you can find elaboration on that at length in the following two posts:

What is Beehaw?
Beehaw is a Community

for some less lengthy and more relaxed elaboration, see the discussion in the comments of this post.

as for funding: we are 100% user-funded. if you would like to contribute to our ability to keep the website up, you can donate on OpenCollective, which supports both one-time donations or monthly donations.

a few questions occasionally pop up like “why do we have the set of communities we do?” and “why can’t people make their own?” (the latter is a feature of lemmy). for elaboration on that, you can see the following post and the discussions here. we are open to suggestions and creating communities as demand sees fit; see also discussion here.

downvotes are disabled on this instance and that’s a thing we’re not liable to change. if you’d like elaboration for why that is, see this comment. this may be a point of friction for some coming from reddit, but i hope you’ll understand why we’re doing it even if you don’t necessarily agree with it.

if you’re interested in our governance to this point and a brief idea of our long term goals, see the comment here.

feel free to sound off on other questions you have; i’ll try to update the OP with those and our ability to answer them as time goes on.

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[–] ThePhoenixFire@lemmy.perthchat.org 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

https://sopuli.xyz/ collapses under the massive weight of redditors with bad gateway


I'm currently fixing it, and making use of the extra storage I got from Hetzner


Well, whew again! The influx of new users into Sopuli surprised not only me, but also Hetzner’s VPS. The disk space ran out fast, and Sopuli was down today for many hours because of this. I was busy with work, which didn’t help with the issue.

I bought extra disk space from Hetzner, and the founder of the newly founded Lemmy instance https://lemmy.world !ruud@lemmy.world helped to use it on the VPS. Really big thanks for him! Apologies to both new and old users, hopefully this will not happen again. Happy weekend, everyone!

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Classic Reddit Hug-o'-death... the servers might need another buck or two.

This could be a make or break moment for Lemmy to welcome Reddit users en masse.

Well, whew again! The influx of new users into Sopuli surprised not only me, but also Hetzner’s VPS. The disk space ran out fast, and Sopuli was down today for many hours because of this. I was busy with work, which didn’t help with the issue.

I bought extra disk space from Hetzner, and the founder of the newly founded Lemmy instance https://lemmy.world !ruud@lemmy.world helped to use it on the VPS. Really big thanks for him! Apologies to both new and old users, hopefully this will not happen again. Happy weekend, everyone!

I'm currently fixing it, and making use of the extra storage I got from Hetzner

[–] Ashwag@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I want Lemmy in general to take off more now than ever, but I imagine in 30 days will be the real reckoning. Not everyone subscribes to /r/redditdev and /r/modnews. When they cut off Apollo and RIF everyone will be looking for a new location.

True that would make sense! All the procrastinators

Beehaw is about to overtake lemmygrab and become the 3rd (?) biggest instance

[–] ThePhoenixFire@lemmy.perthchat.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Seda 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wish it included Oklahoma :/ We don't belong anywhere!

[–] ThePhoenixFire@lemmy.perthchat.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you or your statesfolk are up for it, i've heard domains like .xyz are quite cheap, and Oklahoma.xyz is not taken

[–] Seda 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh interesting! I'm new to Lemmy, what would the process of starting a node for my state be like? Renting a server, buying the domain, and running the node software?

[–] Seda 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And as I type this, Oklahoma.xyz was taken haha

Oof, i think that was my mistake, I mean to say oklahoma.io or something, i was plugging a few in can think i misremembered which domain was cheap and available lol

Beehaw starts prunning inactive accts

Beehaw admin; Banned @Kremor@beehaw.org reason: Inactive Banned @Zmodem@beehaw.org reason: Inactive Banned @thrillperil@beehaw.org reason: Inactive

[–] ThePhoenixFire@lemmy.perthchat.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Beehaw is having arterial fibrillation atm! Sometimes it's up sometimes it's down. Seems like it's been like this for at least a few hours

Afaik, since may 31, the lemmyverse has only has 3000 new users join. 52 000 users grand total. Which is a 5% increase to userbase since may 31.

I don't think we actually need more instances to be added atm. Beehaw, sopuli are getting a lot of action, but group.lt only got 3 new users . SO if the recommended server list was inverted to be smallest servers first, the 3000 new ppl could be spread out across the ~50 public servers evenly.

Sopuli is approahing 1000 users, while Beehaw has climbed to ~2340

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