Is one donation method preferred over another? That is to say, is one cheaper than the other?
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
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This is literally a Wikipedia moment for social media, thank you @Ruud
Incredible. Thank you for your efforts on this!
So, I just want to make sure I understand this as I am a new user from reddit. Instances are server based and cost money. Instances are Lemmy.World, Beebaw, Lemmy.Film, etc etc. These are all seperate hosted instances. Correct?
And donations would help pay for the server, ie lemmy.world?
Yes, lemmy.world, lemmy.film, beebaw and etc are other instances of Lemmy and users from other instances can interact with other instances.
And yes donations help the server afloat.
Pretty cool stuff.
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I'm not too familiar with Lemmy's codebase, but I am a devops engineer. Is the software written in any way to support horizontal scaling? If so, I'd be happy to consult/help to get the instance onto an autoscaling platform eventually.
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Came here from Reddit and I already love it so much more! :)
Thank you. Feels super responsive.
Thanks for the awesome work!
Does it work on water now that it has MORE POWA?
What kind of server configuration are you guys running? A single instance?
Are you running this out of your home?
I have self hosted small things before, but I was always curious about lager stuff like this.
What are your internet speeds?
Check the updated post. It's running on a dedicated server hosted by Hetzner. Specs are high-end: "AMD EPYC 7502P 32 Cores βRomeβ CPU and 128GB RAM."
Thanks for letting me know. I also have my work stuff on Hetzner. But I do not see "Hetzner" listed in this post.
Have you ever hosted on Vultr? I need a server with less latency and Vultr seems to have servers in a good location for my needs.
Actually just had a short conversation with @[email protected] about the latency. We're going to try and address that for those of us outside of Europe.
I'm not sure how its being done as far as the technical aspects but Ruud has done a great job as admin upgrading the servers to keep up and anticipating the flow of new users.
The same admin also has experience with a mastadon.world server that experienced lots of growth from Twitter users leaving over musk moves. So essentially we have a good admin as far as I can tell and it's not his first rodeo. Part of the reason I chose this server
I'm less concerned with the technical aspects and more curious about the long term.
Federated instances, such as lemmy.world, are operated by individuals; What happens if they decide to stop doing so without handing the server/data off to someone else? Do all of our accounts created here disappear? What do other users see if they click through my profile from a post on a different federated server? What happens to all of the content created on the server in question?
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Always give a long estimate so people are pleasantly surprised :)