Demigodrick
@Demigodrick@lemmy.zip
- Comment on Lemmy.zip & Piefed.zip Server Update February 2026 5 days ago:
Thanks, appreciate it!
- Comment on Lemmy.zip & Piefed.zip Server Update February 2026 5 days ago:
The actual lemmy database sits around 110GB at the moment. And that’s with almost 3 years of posts/comments from all over the fediverse, so I think that’s a reasonable storage amount.
I don’t know of a way of seperating out local vs federated in terms of content to be able to check it’s size, it’s all held in the same table(s) with a local flag if local. There is probably a way, I’d need someone smarter than me to work it out though.
Our biggest risk to storage at one point was prometheus and keeping hold of massive amounts of log files so that we could work out when and where we were being attacked from. By implementing a full challenge in cloudflare, we’ve been able to stop that which is why that graph comes down a bit.
The biggest storage issue is images, which is 2.1TB at the moment. There is a way to clear this up a bit with some software, but it’s apparently got risk, so low down the priority list at the moment as object storage is cheap and doesn’t affect the server directly.
- Comment on Lemmy.zip & Piefed.zip Server Update February 2026 5 days ago:
Glad you enjoyed it, took me far too long to write it and chuckled to myself the whole time 😅
- Comment on Lemmy.zip & Piefed.zip Server Update February 2026 5 days ago:
Thanks for being here! :)
- Comment on Lemmy.zip & Piefed.zip Server Update February 2026 5 days ago:
I just get weird looks when trying to explain it to people, but it’s so awesome. Such a cool idea.
- Comment on Lemmy.zip & Piefed.zip Server Update February 2026 5 days ago:
❤️ whichever is best for the people donating, we just try to provide as many options as possible
- Submitted 5 days ago to home@lemmy.zip | 34 comments
- Comment on Valve will face that £656m UK lawsuit accusing them of overcharging Steam customers, as tribunal rules it can go ahead 1 week ago:
Had a nosey further into this, I was assuming its backed by epic or something like that although nothing obvious jumps out.
There’s a list of FAQs on the website too, most of which are demonstrably false, which makes me very curious as to why this random person feels they speak for me, which they don’t, and what backing they have here. All very strange.
- Comment on Lemmy.zip & Piefed.zip Server Update January 2026 3 weeks ago:
It’s been enabled quite a while, has anything changed your end recently? Are you potentially blocking cookies?
Once you’ve passed the challenge, you shouldn’t see it for another month.
- Comment on "A curated list of UI clients for accessing the ActivityPub Fediverse social network" 3 weeks ago:
Like mastodon in SSH (and yes, no blocking the line!)
- Comment on "A curated list of UI clients for accessing the ActivityPub Fediverse social network" 3 weeks ago:
Incredibly niche! :)
Probably why i like it so much.
- Comment on "A curated list of UI clients for accessing the ActivityPub Fediverse social network" 3 weeks ago:
Not seen one more detailed than this, although worth checking against fedidb.com - also, missing my new favourite from the list, stegodon (stegodon.social, stegodon.zip)
- Comment on Don't be a lurker, they said. (introduction post) 4 weeks ago:
Hey welcome along :)
I would absolutely say to keep an eye on !newcommunities@lemmy.world to see what people are creating. !communitypromo@lemmy.ca is also a good one.
I’m sure people will chime in with their favourite communities from across lemmy, and i always think looking at the all feed and what’s been popular (and scaled too for the smaller communities) gives a good turnover of posts.
- Comment on Lemmy.zip & Piefed.zip Server Update January 2026 4 weeks ago:
Thanks for being here! 😊
- Comment on Lemmy.zip & Piefed.zip Server Update January 2026 4 weeks ago:
Unfortunately not directly no, you’d need to make a new account and you’d lose your post history etc. You can possibly import account settings, subscriptions etc. But either way you’d need to make a new account 😊
- Comment on Lemmy.zip & Piefed.zip Server Update January 2026 4 weeks ago:
FYI @merdaverse looks like devs have fixed this in the next UI update: github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/3737
- Comment on The best Linux distributions for gaming in 2026 4 weeks ago:
Another +1 for endeavour, two years solid, no problems at all.
- Comment on Lemmy.zip & Piefed.zip Server Update January 2026 4 weeks ago:
Thank you so much ❤️
- Comment on Lemmy.zip & Piefed.zip Server Update January 2026 5 weeks ago:
Thanks for that heads up, I’ll have a think. We can swap back to webp if we need to, although I’ll check the lemmy github first as this might already be reported/fixed in a further update.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to home@lemmy.zip | 24 comments
- Submitted 1 month ago to announcements@lemmy.zip | 0 comments
- Comment on Trouble with images not displaying 1 month ago:
Glad that’s worked :)
- Comment on Trouble with images not displaying 1 month ago:
The check is bypassed if you’re logged in, which is why you don’t see it on the main site.
I’ve tweaked the challenge rules, let me know if this improves things :)
- Comment on Trouble with images not displaying 1 month ago:
Hey, this will be because the VPN connection you’re using is coming from somewhere that gets caught up in our ASN blocks (we use these to protect us from scrapers/attacks). This is probably because the VPN provider/server has been used to attack us previously.
I assume if you try without a VPN you don’t get this issue?
- Comment on Fullscreen images often fail to display images 1 month ago:
Hey, it does sound like an app bug. If the dev wants to reach out to me I’m more than happy to share data with them.
- Submitted 2 months ago to home@lemmy.zip | 23 comments
- Submitted 2 months ago to announcements@lemmy.zip | 0 comments
- Comment on lemmit.online 2 months ago:
Hey, so i banned it for a couple of reasons. Firstly, it was mainly unmoderated and was causing a lot of mod reports we had to resolve under various spam and wrong community reports. There was sometimes a fair bit of porn it was reposting iirc too, which causes a fair few issues especially if it was reposting copyrighted material.
Secondly, it was taking up a lot of space. It had something like 1.5 million posts at the time I banned it. It was causing the user page to fail to load for admins because of just how big the search queries were becoming in the database. It wasn’t manageable anymore.
Thirdly it was only very infrequently upvoted/interacted with locally, to the point it went weeks without interaction where we stored tens of thousands of posts and subsequent thumbnails for no apparent reason.
We don’t have unlimited budget and storage is our biggest risk factor to cost, so ultimately we have to be pragmatic about hosting that content. We don’t have the budget of some of the larger servers unfortunately.
Hope that helps 😊
@MagicShel@lemmy.zip @frongt@lemmy.zip @Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Submitted 2 months ago to home@lemmy.zip | 25 comments
- Comment on Can !runescape@lemmy.zip be restored? 3 months ago:
Thanks, i’ve added you as a mod to the xbox community!
Might be worth creating a runescape community with your .zip account, then within 24 hours all the other instances should start federating with it again.