Thanks for choosing this instance! Lurking is still a completely valid usecase!
dmvsocial
Thanks for choosing this instance! Sorry about the abrupt closing announcement, but I guess on the bright side a nickname refresh isn't that bad 😅
First, thank you for your work for helping tackle a number of the federation issues (and other bugs!) in Lemmy! If anything, I'm more concerned about the broader Fediverse where there are people who think spreading CSAM is okay.
I'm actually really happy to see that the image_mode
lets you disable federated images, that should be a big relief to instances with fewer resources to deal with (in case any other instance admins see my post, please give consideration to using it).
I've made some changes related to the potential server load issue and will keep an eye on things.
This is now completed. Lemmy is now on 0.19.0. I am postponing the pictrs upgrade until a later date.
To be completely honest, I don't know what the tax implications could be for accepting donations and I really don't think it would be worth the headache to figure it out. The server costs are like $45/mo right now (and the backups are like... pennies on top of that). If there's a catastrophic financial event that would risk this instance I'll let folks know well ahead of time.
I'd much prefer folks donate to the Lemmy devs or the developer of an app you use :)
The instance has now been migrated. I'm still validating a few remaining items but I do not anticipate any further interruptions to the instance in the next half-hour.
Momentarily I will be taking this instance offline to block federation activities while a data snapshot is created.
During this time, DNS will redirect to the new instance, and the new instance will be available after the snapshot is restored.
Thanks for your patience!
Assuming all is well in the universe, you should be able to copy the "!jeffersoncounty_wv@dmv.social", paste it in the Search box on Beehaw, then click Search a time or two and it should load it up.
Yeah if this place starts getting some traction I'd love to get a few meetups around the region going.
It's within "possibly getting folks together for beers" distance of the area, so why not? !jeffersoncounty_wv@dmv.social
So the initial plan was just to take down the server and leave comments/etc up on other instances. Your account would effectively become frozen when viewed from other instances.
I didn't want to make an announcement yet since I haven't gotten a script ready, but I'm intending on running a script to at least purge my user account contents and give a week or so for the deletes to federate.
If I get it working this weekend, I was planning on offering to help purge data from people who were privacy conscious.