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@lodion@aussie.zone
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https://lemmy.click/u/lodion
https://beehaw.org/u/lodion
- Comment on Alternate Web UI for aussie.zone 6 days ago:
Yeah I like it too… but it was generating an abnormal amount of traffic. I’ll see if I can figure out what is going on… but mlmym is pretty basic, doesn’t seem to have much in the way of configuration options.
- Comment on Upgrade incoming 1 week ago:
Yeah… I understood outgoing federation of activities was linear FIFO. The new feature in 0.19.6 allows N instances of linear FIFO, with related activities federated in sequence.
Our outgoing activities go out very quickly, aussie.zone has a very low activity rate so remote instances don’t tend to get behind at all.
How a LW user replied to a current AZ post and had it show up here in a decent timeframe is a mystery to me, seeing as they’re still running their custom version of 0.19.3
- Comment on Upgrade incoming 1 week ago:
I can only guess the order activities are federated in is random? Which doesn’t make much sense.
- Comment on Upgrade incoming 1 week ago:
It’s configurable… defaults to 1 thread. Given we’re slowly catching up with LW during low activity parts of the day, I think 2 should be enough.
- Comment on Who was our best Prime Minister and why? 1 week ago:
Not sure about the whole picture, but credit to Keating for bringing in compulsory superannuation.
- Comment on Who was our best Prime Minister and why? 1 week ago:
- Comment on Upgrade incoming 1 week ago:
0.19.6 includes many fixes and new features… the biggest for me is “Parallel federation sending”. This allows instance admins to send multiple federated activities in parrallel, rather than singly in series.
Not that its a real issue for other admins with activities from AZ, but I have set this to 2 for our outgoing activities.
Hopefully the lemmy.world admins will upgrade to 0.19.6 soon and do the same, this should allow AZ to catch up with activities from LW, and stay up to date.
- Comment on Upgrade incoming 1 week ago:
Ok… DB migration was an offline my migration, my bad. Took longer I expected… but we’re back in action 🤓
- Submitted 1 week ago to meta@aussie.zone | 17 comments
- Comment on We should defederate lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago:
Maybe AskAnAussie? Or something like that. Want to keep the communities here Australia focused.
Federation issues with LW have improved, and I expect to be eliminated with a future version of the lemmy server software.
- Comment on We should defederate lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago:
Made some time at work, don’t tell my boss…
Think of lemmy instances as countries: when you visit a country/instance you’re expected to abide by their local rules, whatever they may be. And when users from other countries/instances interact with Australia/aussie.zone they’re expected to behave in line with our rules.
Not agreeing with the population of a country/instance doesn’t mean you can’t visit it. If/When you visit, you can’t expect them to adhere to your rules at home… or to apply their own rules consistently… just like the real world.
Defederation of an instance will only be done when:
**Legal **- the instance is generating content that may raise legal concerns for Aussie Zone. For example porn.
**Technical **- the instance is generating content that may cause performance/security issues for Aussie Zone. For example large volumes of automated traffic or malicious traffic.
**Trolls **- an instance whose users predominantly interact in bad faith with communities outside of their instance.
I don’t believe lemmy.ml meets either of these, their “quirky” politics are largely self contained on their own communities from what I’ve seen. If they’re crashing aussie.zone communities and posting outside of our rules, please report them.
To address some comments in this thread (paraphrasing):
we should defederate instances with bad admins or admins heavily moderating alternative views to their own
So far as their actions do not trigger any of the defederation criteria noted above, they can do as they see fit.
no incentive to create alternative communities
If there is no incentive, then it can’t be a large enough issue to enough users.pro-authoritarian bias
Given how simple it is for a user to block an instance for themself, I’d rather allow our users had the option to decide this for themselves. Some prefer to engage with people from an alternate perspective, for those that don’t they can block the instance.TLDR
Not defederating lemmy.ml at this point in time, if their user behaviour outside of their instance changes in future my stance may change too.
- Comment on We should defederate lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago:
I’m at work, don’t have time to reply appropriately now. Will do so tonight.
- Comment on Alternate Web UI for aussie.zone 2 weeks ago:
It’s just a UI, all the content itself is in the same backend. It’s very light weight to host, so I’d only shut it down if it has issues… eg security or interop with future Lemmy versions.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to meta@aussie.zone | 7 comments
- Comment on Nerd Update 25/10/24 3 weeks ago:
I’m not yet caffeinated… thank you.
- Comment on Nerd Update 25/10/24 3 weeks ago:
Front page side bar at the bottom has a link to my Ko-fi donation page, but I know you know that 🙂
If you mean “where do the funds go?” Funds are used to cover various costs associated with running aussie.zone, such as:
virtual private server
server backups
object storage for images
domain registration - Comment on Nerd Update 25/10/24 3 weeks ago:
Honestly… no. I’m not an accountant, so truing up transactions from my Paypal account is a pain.
Recurring donations have dropped, totally understandable in the current economic climate. Some very generous early one off donations mean I’m not paying out of pocket. But that buffer is shrinking month by month.
Previously recurring monthly donations covered ~50% of the monthly costs, this is down to ~30%. Not an issue, some early one off donations mean the kitty is still enough to cover the server costs until Feb/March.
I’m ok to cover the gap between recurring donations and monthly costs. If a time comes when that isn’t the case, I’ll be sure to let everyone know. For now, don’t stress 🙂
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to meta@aussie.zone | 8 comments
- Comment on Friday Night 3 weeks ago:
I do, but the bloody shiraz is my favourite, and I’m out. Good news… I got two good drinks out of it.
- Comment on Friday Night 3 weeks ago:
I think this bottle is faulty… its contents seem to have evaporated and the bottle is nearly empty ☹️
- Comment on Pictures are broken 3 weeks ago:
From what I’ve seen, pict-rs is working much better now using its native object storage support. Unfortunately it looks like we have lost some images, including community icons etc. Mods for these communities should reupload an image to replace it.
- Comment on Friday Night 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Pictures are broken 3 weeks ago:
Ok, pict-rs running again… hold onto your butts.
- Comment on Pictures are broken 3 weeks ago:
Migration ETA until completion is about an hour from now.
- Comment on Pictures are broken 3 weeks ago:
Pfft emergency change!
- Comment on Pictures are broken 3 weeks ago:
Ok… this didn’t go to plan. Filled the disk during migration, stuff fell over. I’ve freed up space and resumed the migration. Apologies.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to meta@aussie.zone | 11 comments
- Comment on What happened to @unionagainstdhmo? 4 weeks ago:
When banning a user we’re presented with a tickbox option to remove all posts/comments from them. Likely the admin did this rather than delve into the DB.
- Comment on Timeout errors in last few days 4 weeks ago:
Ok, I’ve made a few DB config changes… see how we go.
- Comment on Timeout errors in last few days 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, server CPU usage is much higher than usual. I’m looking into it. I don’t believe any of the recent changes for email should have caused this.
