Hopefully this will be the end of our federation woes

We’ve already defederated one tanky instance, and frankly I think I’ve rarely had a positive interaction with Hexbear users. Their defence of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, or of China’s genocide against the Uighur people, is hard enough to stomach. But what prompted me to post this is their commentary in this thread where even without any of the propaganda-based reasons to justify their beliefs, they seem to delight in being rude arseholes to people.

Personally, I don’t think they provide us any real value, no we’d be better off without them, just as we are better off without lemmygrad and exploding-heads.

Not sure if this is a .19 bug or has always existed, but on the inbox page, if I have no unreads, click "all" then click back to unreads it shows DMs despite all DMs being read and the DM filter not even being selected

no unreads

click all

now in unreads DMs show up

The upgrade to lemmy 0.19 has introduced some issues that are being investigated.. but we currently have no fixes for:

• thumbnails break after a time. Caused by memory exhaustion killing object storage processes.
• messages to/from lemmy instance not yet running 0.19 are not federating. I believe it requires bugfixes by the devs.

~~I've re-enabled 2 hourly lemmy restarts. Hopefully this will help with both issues, though it will result in a disruption to the site around every couple of hours.

When the hourly restarts are disabled I'll unpin this post. As any other issues are identified I'll post them here too. ~~

Update: I've disabled the 2 hourly restart after upgrading to 0.19.2... lets see how this goes...

Update2: no issues seen since the upgrade, looks to have resolved both the memory leak and the federation issues. Hooray :)

~~I'll be restarting AZ today for an update to lemmy 0.19.~~

Upgrade complete.

This is a major upgrade, so I expect there to be some issues. Strap in, enjoy the ride.

Expect:

• further restarts
• bugs
• slowdowns
• logouts
• 2FA being disabled
• possibly issues with images, upgrading pictrs to 0.4 at the same time

Are there plans to switch to lemmy 0.19? we are still on 0.18.4, and the new version seems to have alot of useful features. Are there any problems stopping us from updating?

Meta threads will open federation to the fediverse soon, and while this is mainly to mastodon it will still affect lemmy. They are acting like they won't be evil, but let's be real this is Facebook when have they ever done that.

This article which has been trending lately explains some of the issues. https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

This comment here is a simple analogy if you can't be bothered reading the article. https://lemmy.ca/comment/5702922

@lodion@aussie.zone

This isn't a question specifically about aussie.zone, per se, but I'm a bit confused about how subscriber numbers work on Lemmy. I often see a community that says it only has 40 or whatever subscribers, but then posts get hundreds of upvotes. So is the member number shown on communities just counting subscribers from our instance?

I noticed recently there's some slowness in the mornings. Things taking a while to load. Comments failing due to timeout etc.

When I switch to another instance everything works again so pretty sure it's not my internet.

Is there anything we can do or help with? Are there DOS or bot shenanigans going on?

Heya, could we get a SydneyTrains community created please? Thanks

I used to run R/BrisbaneTrains on spez's bullshit playground. Wondering if I can run it here.

I'm kicking off a storage upgrade on the server, expect it to proceed in the next 15 minutes and be back online shortly after.

Hi,

I was curious, after seeing quite a few spam posts originate from one particular instance, is there a way that I, as a user, can block instances, so that their users' posts don't appear on my feed completely?

Cheers

I haven't received email notifications for the last 48ish hours, and they aren't in the spam folder. Is email broken for the moment, or has Gmail just decided to ignore aussie.zone completely for whatever reason?

I came across this neat visualisation of the Fediverse - There we are on the left - a slightly bigger dot among the galaxy of tiny dots :)

How to go about not having posts repeat? I have tried Connect, jerboa and sync apps on android and often find myself somehow back at the top of a long list of posts that I have already seen. I don't want to see posts that have left the top of my screen unless I scroll backwards. The connect app with its 'hide all above posts' option comes close to what I want but is not automatic. I sort by new if that helps. What am I missing?

Here we are, another month down.. still kicking 😀

As usual I’m stating full dollar figures for simplicity, but they’re all rounded/approximate to the dollar. I’m not an accountant and its close enough for our purposes.

Income

$98 AUD thanks to 13 generous donors

Expenses

$45 OVH server fees
$10 ($~6 USD)Wasabi object storage
$39 ($25 USD) Domain registration extended to 6th August 2025
= $94

Balance

+$486 carried forward from July
+$98 income for August
-$94 expenses paid in August
= $490 current balance

Future

Baseline storage on the server is now at ~70% at the low point of the day, time permitting I'll upgrade shortly to ensure sufficient room for growth. Doubling the current storage will cost an additional ~$12 per month.

THANK YOU

to everyone that has contributed to the running costs of the site.

A very special thank you to @Nath@aussie.zone for everything he's doing here, both in public and behind the scenes. Without his help performing admin and moderator activities, this place would be a shambles. I've simply been too busy professionally and personally to pay as much attention as I need to. Thanks Nath, I (and I'm sure everyone else here) appreciate it 🤗

As always, if you have any questions please ask.

CPU:

Memory:

Network:

Storage:

Cloudflare caching:

Summary:

Not much to call out. The storage drop was due to purging a days worth of images, and clearing the entire object storage cache. When I have time, I'll upgrade the VPS to add storage.

Due to some disgusting behaviour, I've kicked off the process of deleting ALL images uploaded in the last day.

You will likely see broken images etc on aussie.zone for posts/comments during this period of time.

Apologies for the inconvenience, but this is pretty much the nightmare scenario for an instance. I'd rather nuke all images ever than to host such content.

We aren't really a big instance. We don't even make the top-20. Where we really hit above our weight though is our comment count.

We are medium in size, but we are super engaged.

I joined .world before aussie.zone was a thing. Now with them banning all the piracy communities it seems a slippery slope for all other kinds of discussions too.

I'm Australian. Aussies are notorious pirates. Does aussie.zone have plans to also defederate dbzer0 etc?

Just want some clarity before moving here.

Thanks!

Why are there no posts?

CPU:

Memory:

Network:

The one spike here is from a DB backup being uploaded to object storage, prior to the upgrade to 0.18.4.

Storage:

Still ok here. You can see the daily minimum free space increase as I tweak the local cache for object storage.

Cloudflare caching:

Summary:

Nothing of note here. Once baseline storage hits ~70% and I decreasing the object storage retention period is no longer worthwhile, I'll upgrade the server for more storage.

Sorry this is a little late, I've been busy with real life this week.

I'm stating full dollar figures for simplicity, but they're all rounded/approximate to the dollar. I'm not an accountant and its close enough for our purposes.

Income

$267 AUD thanks to 25 generous donors, it is very much appreciated.

Expenses

$34 OVH server fees. Lower than normal, as OVH seem to switch services to calendar based rather than anniversary based from the second month. The July billing period covered 8 July - 31 July, August will be 1-31.
$40 Cloudflare. Due to huge volumes of egress traffic from Cloudflare in early July, I opted to pay for a month of premium in order to investigate. The cause was found and remediated. I've since dropped back to the free plan.

Balance

$193 surplus from July (Income - Expenses)
$293 carried forward from June = $486 current balance

Future

Wasabi's trial period expired on the 8th of July, so the first bill is due this month.

Domain registration, I'll be looking to extend by another year and keep it so that we always have at least 12 months paid up.

Server storage, I expect we'll need to upgrade for additional storage this month. With this upgrade I'll consider pre-paying/committing to the server for a longer period of time. This provides both a discount, and certainty to everyone that the money is put to good use.

THANK YOU

..again, to our generous donors. The offer of an @aussie.zone email address redirect is still open to any donors.

As always, if you have any questions please ask.