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Hey I do exactly the same, high 5!

The kiwi’s have spun something up over here

I’m far too disorganised to coordinate that. Though I’m sure someone from /c/Melbourne will 🙂

Good bot.

Hmm sorry I can’t help. Though this sort of question may see a better audience over at Whirlpool. Much higher density of nerds over there 🤓

The largest table holds data that is only needed by Lemmy briefly. There is a scheduled job to clear it… Every 6 months. There are active discussions on how best to handle this.

On my instance I’ve set a cronjob to delete everything but the most recent 100k rows of that table every hour.

By the way, upgradding to lemmy version 0.18.1 is well worth it. Some massive under the hood performance improvements 🙂

Mate, that sounds like an awesome night. I’d call that a win!

Your mum was a programmer in the 60s? She must be incredibly in so many ways!

Ok yeah, I guess for external links direct to images it makes sense for the image to be retrieved by each instance. Still, its not intuitive behaviour and it doesn’t seem to be widely understood at all.

Thanks for reporting back.

It may be a bug, I’m not sure.

On 0.18.1-rc.10 the defederated instances are at the very bottom, not on the right hand side.

I have no intention of every placing ads on aussie.zone. Should finances ever become an issue, I’ll send up a 🚩 with a stickied post.

For now, finances are fine 🙂

On the point of being unsustainable I disagree. Instances will need to find an equilibrium between cost/expense and retention of old content. The higher the revenue/cost tolerance, the older the content that can be retained. I expect most instances will end up purging non-local content after an amount of time, but retain local content as long as possible. Maybe I’m naive, but I have confidence that people smarter than me will come up with systems to do this. It may result in a usenet style setup where instances boast about their retention periods.

On your second point re: community contributions, I agree entirely. I’ve been very fortunate that there have been some generous donations from aussie.zone users, so I’m not worried about server costs at this point. Server costs will go up as data volumes increase, that is unavoidable. How the community decides to handle this in the future is the real question, based on what I’ve experienced so far I’m confident we’ll be around for a long time to come.

I wish I knew… I’ve seen the behavior you’ve described, but others tell me it doesn’t happen.

Got a suggested blocklist handy?

I’ve not played it in years, but Soldat was always great fun. Server requirements are pretty much: potato.

I like their sense of humour. The definitely don’t take themselves too seriously.

Manual admin approval for every signup.