crystals.rest [meta]

We have some bad news. I've had to rollback to the the 9th. We are running out of disk space and I tried all kind of things to free up space, and they all are not working. The best I can do is remove certain communities and try and prune when I can, but I don't know what to do at this point.

The only way is to I guess upgrade space, but I don't know how long that will last. I'd like some thoughts about it, I guess.

So trying to diagnose the issue, it seems there are spam spikes from outside of our server, but in trying to federate with these events, it starts running our CPU of the server at 100% and errors out. When I restart it during that, it seems to have issues and I have to rollback.

Thankfully, we had a rollback from last night this time, but for now that means I will be removing the largest non-art communities that would get spammed, such as memes, news, and politics from the large big servers. This means that this instance will probably be more useful just for art only for the time being. Many mobile clients allow you to login to multiple accounts on different servers, so you may need to do that to get better access to non-niche content.

There will be an eventual lemmy update that will create a federation queue that addresses this, but for now, we have to work with what we have.

I've hit some kind of roadblock with not being able to update things because the server itself is running out of space, causing me being unable to update things. So for this reason I rolled back the server, losing some recent posts.

As such, I will be banning and purging history of some of the biggest and most active meme subs. I do not wish to limit your access to these subs, I enjoy them too, but I feel it's more important to be able to browse our art sections rather than meme things, where you could try a different account on a bigger and more supported instance.

It is also now time that I will have to pay for the servers, the free account trial has run out. I should be able to cover it, but if you'd like to help out, there is always my ko-fi should you choose! The cost of a month of the server is only $10 with backups, so not much is needed.

Well I think I've done that right! Even though it wasn't actually 8 hours later, whoops. We should be all good. Here's the information on the release: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/main/RELEASES.md

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I've been told the next update will take ~10 minutes to go, so I wanted to give you guys a heads up. I will start getting it ready in 8 hours from now!

It also mean the theme is majorly borked now, but I'm gonna work on it! There should be lots of nice improvements.

Here's what all changed: https://join-lemmy.org/news/2023-07-07_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.18.1

We're going to open registrations again! We'll see if the captcha deals with the bot problem.

------ Original --------- There's been a slow trickle of bots that are using vague entry prompts. For this reason registration will be closed, but just contact me through any means with any link to your creative works or vtubers you like, and say cat!

So just contact me through any of social listed here or, [email protected] , or matrix at [email protected] if you would like in.

Here's some pre-loaded images to the server you can use! In the next update I will see about making them selectable from the emoji picker! But for now, just use these codes to get them!

How To Use:

Put this wherever inline you want the emote.

![alt description](https://crystals.rest/images/[image name]_[zoom]px.png)

For example,

![crystal](https://crystals.rest/images/cry_cr_2x.png)

Will create this! You have to use the url, but the path will always be the same and I will list the item's name here. All come in 1x, 2x, and 3x zoom. Just edit where one says 1x to 2x, and it will be bigger, up to 3.

INCLUDE THE ICON NAME IN [THE ALT TEXT]

You can press the ... on the post options and click the clipboard to 'view source' to see exactly how I have placed it.

Streaming:

twitch

youtube

broadcaster

moderator

vip

General:

cake

Stars/Rating:

star_pink

star_gold

star_silver

star_bronze

star_2star

star_3star

Pokemon:

pokeball

greatball

ultraball

magikarp

Crystals

cry_cr

cry_cr_whiteout

cry_cr_blackout

cry_white

cry_black

cry_yellow

cry_red

cry_green

cry_blue

cry_purple

cry_pink

cry_harkon

Welcome!

Here’s a little home that I hope streamers, vtubers, artists, and all who enjoy these things can have a nice time away from a big instance. This site will grow based on how the first of ya’ll here respond to everything I’ve setup. I will admit though, all these interests are purely based on my (Nina's) preferences.

everyone thank @[email protected] for helping to get the server's 3rd attempt to be finally and properly set up!!!

How do I use this site?

This site is running something called Lemmy, which is a link aggregator with forum style comments, like Reddit. The 'Local' tab is everything specifically from this site, crystals.rest. At the bottom of this post is all of the basic communities (like subreddits) we have. It's a place for discussions or sharing of things that are part of these themed topic pages. This is not all there is though. You can click the 'Communities' nav link on top and sort to 'All' to list different communities from all over lemmy and kbin, which we do by searching and subscribing to their individual communities. If you find a link to a community that is not yet discovered by us, click the search icon up top and enter in that url. It will say no results found, but if you give it a minute, that should go away, and then searching it's name/checking the communities tab will have it there to be able to subscribe too. You can comment there, as we are talking to their site, and they can comment here! This means that it's very important to report users who are acting maliciously. Report and then feel free to ping Nina on discord or matrix. Remember to read the sidebar of each community!

Going Forward

The current plan is to start out with a small subset of basic communities relevant to our topics and then branching out from there. I will be keeping creating new communities open, but please put a little thought into them before you create them, and see if there are alternates we could federate with instead. Currently I am the head mod of all of these communities, but that’s not entirely the plan. I will lead them as long as needed, but if others are interested in running these communities or at least mod help after participating for a time, please make a post here!

Current Pre-Populated Communities

meta community (you're here!)

casual chat

livestreaming

edited video content

vtubers

self promotion

pixel art

lowpoly

gamedev

NOTES

We now have a matrix space!

If you happen to look into the modlogs (which beware, bad things in there), if I've unbanned someone with a rude name, it's because they were permanently banned on their home server. Their account is effectively dead, they can't interact with us, so it's just clogging up my ban list because of how they are currently federated.