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@lodion@aussie.zone
Also on these instances:
https://lemmy.click/u/lodion
https://beehaw.org/u/lodion
- Comment on Annual General Thread 20 hours ago:
The volume of activity from LW reduced, and it also looks like they made some config changes on their side… at a guess more federation worker processes, allowing an almost constant stream of activity to be sent to AZ.
- Comment on Annual General Thread 1 day ago:
When the LW lag issue was previously discussed, my main constraint was (and still is) time. Longer term it would have been a financial concern.
Either way, the issue has cleared up now due to a number of factors, none of which required time or finances on our part. I call that a win.
Worth noting, LW have still not upgraded their instance to the version that introduced multiple sending threads to a remote instance. If their volume of traffic were to increase substantially again, we could “lag” again. - Comment on Annual General Thread 2 days ago:
I’m happy to hear feedback, but tbh you should think of AZ as a benevolent dictatorship rather than a democracy. So the analogy to a company AGM isn’t quite right 😃
- Comment on Upgrade to lemmy 0.19.8 1 week ago:
Sure.
- Comment on Upgrade to lemmy 0.19.8 1 week ago:
Finished.
- Submitted 1 week ago to meta@aussie.zone | 8 comments
- Comment on What's the deal with lemmy.world today? 1 week ago:
A minor Christmas miracle… AZ is no longer behind on LW content:
Hopefully this stays the case :)
- Comment on So what are we going to do with all this social media age-gate stuff? 3 weeks ago:
I’ll give as much notice as possible, whatever ends up happening.
- Comment on So what are we going to do with all this social media age-gate stuff? 3 weeks ago:
All good questions, that I don’t have any answers to. Plenty of time to figure it out… I’ll probably be looking at the larger players to see where this goes, and what clarifying information the government put out next year.
- Comment on Alternate Web UI for aussie.zone 1 month 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 month 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 month ago:
I can only guess the order activities are federated in is random? Which doesn’t make much sense.
- Comment on Upgrade incoming 1 month 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 month 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 month ago:
- Comment on Upgrade incoming 1 month 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 month ago:
Ok… DB migration was an offline my migration, my bad. Took longer I expected… but we’re back in action 🤓
- Submitted 1 month ago to meta@aussie.zone | 17 comments
- Comment on We should defederate lemmy.ml 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 months 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 2 months ago to meta@aussie.zone | 7 comments
- Comment on Nerd Update 25/10/24 2 months ago:
I’m not yet caffeinated… thank you.
- Comment on Nerd Update 25/10/24 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago to meta@aussie.zone | 8 comments
- Comment on Friday Night 2 months 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 2 months ago:
I think this bottle is faulty… its contents seem to have evaporated and the bottle is nearly empty ☹️
- Comment on Pictures are broken 2 months 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.
