The fanbase is still large, but the Lemmy community hasn’t quite caught up yet, and now there is a transitional period where the audience is smaller.
I once saw Yo-Yo Ma perform at a Borders book store in Boston.
Small communities and slow content feeds are fine for me I think. Either way I’m glad I’m here to witness this liminal period.
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Enjoy the intimate atmosphere while it last. The hordes will find us eventually.
You can always have your own universe within the fediverse.
And the old memes trend is that time the band did a bunch of coffee shop shows playing nothing but ukuleles.
allow me to introduce you to https://lemmy.world/c/tonightsdinner it’s pretty much that except playing in the empty back room of the library - cooks come and post please
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]
Good bot!
Bot!
Well done, robot - I’m still learning thank you!
I don’t cook but I’ll support your cause.
This is a concern, but luckily this isn’t required. I set up hobbit.world to host my Tolkien related communities. It only costs $6 a month plus the $35/yr for the domain name to host a tiny instance like this. I don’t need to depend on anyone but my hosting provider.
To be safe I should download backups once a month or so.
But the point is that for big communities that people put a lot of time into, there should be an instance for each one owned by one of the mods.
Edit: Meant to reply to the person concerned about the centralization of communities.
To be safe I should download backups once a month or so.
Please do it more often if you have users other than yourself. One backup on the same server is barely a backup at all.
Fair enough. I’ll look into automating it using some sort of storage from another provider.
Even just a cronjob or scheduled task to download the backups to a machine at another location would be a big improvement. Then you can do it far more often because it’s automated.
But personally I like to have both a copy on a PC and a cloud backup, in addition to the server.
I’m using the easy Lemmy script to run the docker instance. How do I take a backup of a running docker instance.
The backups I’ve done so far are full shard backups. But I don’t have a way to automate that.
this is the bash script I use to create backups
#! /bin/bash # https://join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/backup_and_restore.html#a-sample-backup-script now=$(date +"%Y-%m-%d_%H.%M.%S") cd ~/lemmy && (docker-compose exec -T postgres pg_dumpall -c -U lemmy 1> dump.sql 2> dump.errors) cd ~/lemmy && zip -r9 ~/bak-lemmy-$now.zip ./ --exclude "volumes/postgres/*" rm -f ~/lemmy/dump.sqlit creates very small zip files as a result so it’s very efficient
I made a cron for it to run every 3 hours, like
0 */3 * * * ~/lemmy/backup.shI figured out how to do this with docker container, but that’s not ideal for a script.
Using docker compose it just fails with: Service “postgres” is not running container #1
I can see lemmy-easy-deploy if I do: docker compose ls
The service name is postgres in the docker-compose.yml file. Any idea what the issue might be?
Where is this lemmy-easy-deploy? I haven’t seen that before, maybe if I read how it works I can figure out what’s wrong
The page here explains getting a database dump on a running instance (and how to restore): https://join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/backup_and_restore.html
Then just back up the other files in the volumes directory where Lemmy is installed (everything except postgres, which is what the database dump does).
The pictrs volume includes both the uploaded images and the image cache. I have no idea how to separate out the uploaded images so you don’t have to back up the cache, I just back it all up.
Backblaze is fairly cheap but can be slow to get data from.
That is good since we are all beta testing the site and developing tools to manage everything before the real migration occurs.
Real migration? Who would be migrating? The 90% we left behind?
No, thank you.
The more the merrier.
You can move to smaller universes if that’s what you see fit.
No, in this case, the more is not the merrier. Otherwise you end up with the reddit shitshow.
You can choose to be on smaller instances that only federate with smaller instances.
Having more people gives us more options.
Fair enough.
Eventually more will come.
Can we gate keep the riffraff out? For once?
The more the merrier. I want the doctors from askdocs and the historians and the eli5 people and the lawyers from legaladvice etc etc to be here too. Currently it’s mainly us tech nerds who understand how the fediverse works. Which is nice at times but having a wide range of nerds from many fields would be great
Ah, when you put it this way, it makes sense.
I just don’t wante the usual pokemon or sponge bob memes flooding the fediverse.
You might want to double check the amount of Sponge Bob on [email protected] - its already there in abundance.
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hey its like our own little MTV Unplugged session :D
True, but since it’s about the Fediverse and Lemmy, this was a better fit.
For sure! Just sharing a community you can cross-post to, or inspire others to subscribe to if they like this type of post.
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Good to know!
I’m just over here waiting on more Braves fans to show up from /r/Braves. That’s where I was the most active.
Sports will likely be the slowest migration.
Sports fans be like: If no NFL, Doritos, Mountain Dew, or gamble, me no want. Me sit watch game and eat Lay chip on couch. Reddit for smart people like me. Other sites no have football.
grunt, grunt, grunt!
Find me in Man Cave where game on and beer ice cold. If not football in USA motherland it pussy sport for girls.
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The trouble is the fediverse means there can be multiple. I’m subscribed to two Red Sox groups but there’s only a couple dozen people in each one so there’s no real place for GDTs yet.
Thankfully there’s only one for the Braves. It’s just not real active yet.
GDT?
Good dam times ? (Idk)
Game day thread, a live chat during games
As more people join one will get selected. There was r/cars and r/autos for a long time. R/cars won out in the end.
An “r/autos” was always doomed to lose to an “r/cars”. It’s just how English works and what people end up searching for.
Build the community and they will come.
It exists already, I’m just waiting on people to show up.
This could be a concern but i think it will even out in the end. Many people will naturally gravitate to am instance that suites them. I created unilem.org as an instance aimed at not defederating. Some will like that and join others will not and find a different place that suits them. Its the beauty of the fediverse. You can choose your home or even host your own.
How’s not defederating going so far?
Well its only a new instance but no problems so far.
Thank you for sharing this.
I’ve been looking for an instance that protects free speech.
Edit: It would be nice if we could sign up without giving a rationale.
The explanation box is more just to prevent bots, once im confident that the captcha is working as intended I’ll likely remove it
They’re just doing their part for decentralized social media.
If their fans love them enough, they’ll make an account.
The loudest band so far seems to be the “memes” band.
Just like reddit in 2010.
Memes, racism and jailbait built reddit, but we have smartly avoided most of the latter two so far.
They aren’t good too
All of them very low effort and unfunny
Beans.
Laugh.
BOLD
Fuckin hate memes.
Too many god damned memes
They’re coarse and grainy and they get everywhere
You should try shorts. They’re comfy and easy to wear.
…the other 50 who showed up had to stand in the hall or not get in at all. They said the venue sucks and left.
Why is that?
A lot of people ran into signup and login issues over the last few weeks and just bailed.
“The system overwhelmed by this influx of new users is experiencing problems that make it take more than three seconds to get something done. Bye.”
WTF, I’m not going anywhere. I’ve been trying to help frustrated people on /r/Lemmy and /r/Redditalternatives. What have you done to help?
Lol, I was imitating the people who left after two seconds because of the problems.
Edit: added quotation marks for clarification
It was a natural filter. Good for the community quality, possibly.
i personally am surprised you got past the lemmy.world captcha
