Thanks for running this instance. It makes the switch to Lemmy much easier with all the local communities. I already feel more at hone here than I have for a while on reddit.

99.9999% uptime is for overrated. We can put on some bug spray and step outside (or a coat for the glorious time of the year mosquitoes don't try to carry me away) if the server goes down.

Hi, I've really been enjoying my time here so far. I think if people keep posting and interacting this could become my next doom scroll client.

If you need some help running the instance at any point let me know. I'm a network engineer/sysadmin/VM wrangler in Indiana so hopefully I could be of some help!

As a newbie here, I don't expect the server to run perfectly all the time, and growing pains are normal. Take your time! I'm glad to have a little place to hangout in the meanwhile.

Thank you for hosting this! It’s a great little place and it’s nice that it isn’t a super big site.

I work IT for a fairly large enterprise. I’m willing to help out however I can. I’ve not run Lemmy, but I have experience with Python, containers, Kubernetes, Java, PHP, and basic database administration with a strong background in systems monitoring as well, so even if you just an extra site monitoring probe, just hit me up.

The growing pains don’t bother me too much, especially when the alternative is going back and accepting how bad reddit will progressively get as advertisers take over.

There’re so many fellow tech workers here too lol

Thanks for hosting the server. Scaling while being slammed is tough! I've noticed a few times the server is too loaded and try to come back later. With reddit down you're essentially feeling 'the slashdot effect' (is that still a thing? lol). I'll keep coming back and checking =)

I've done infra/ops for years, and been in your situation more than once. Take your time, you'll get it all sorted out. John Allspaw wrote a good book about this subject, "The Art of Capacity Planning: Scaling Web Resources". There is a new edition out that I haven't read, but all of the lessons learned in that book are still applicable today. The biggest thing that helped me was learning haproxy and figuring out how to spread out the load, minimize response times, as well as queue time.

Happy to be here. Glad there's a midwest specific instance.

Thank you for creating this place for us. This is my first dive into the fediverse, honestly I'm still only kinda sure what I'm doing and how many of this works.

As someone who migrated to reddit from digg during the V4 disaster, and then spent entirely to much time on reddit, I'm excited at the prospect of being somewhere so decentralized that stupid corporate games can't ruin everything.

Cheers! Cincinnati checking in! Thank you for building this space for us to play in!

A fellow pro-gun leftist? (Milhouse hug dot gif)

I am a Linux sysadmin (Redhat and fedora mostly) at a local university for over 20 years. I would be happy to help in any sysadmin tasks.

I thought about setting up my own Lemmy instance. I've already set up my own matrix server and mastodon (gotosocial) server for only me, and I thought I'd give someone else's lemmy instance a shot instead of building my own this time.

Thank you for setting this up and keeping it running. Did you have an "Oh shit" moment when you saw Redditors start suggesting Lemmy as an alternative during the API fiasco?

I'm just a simple technical writer with no SysAdmin experience, but good look on the search for help.

thank you for setting this up. Also, first fediverse post!

Im gonna miss reddit, but i really miss the (relative) locality of the old BBS days, and later, regional blog networks.

The internet feels less like a utility lately and i didnt realize how much i missed that

I'm glad this space exists! As a fellow Clevelander, hope you are enjoying the rain.

Columbus here! Went to school at UC and also work in the tech space. Wish I knew about the Midwest instance before I signed up for lemmy.world.

Found a Columbus community here on Lemmy world, not sure if there are any others: https://lemmy.world/c/columbus

Also if anyone has any leads on web dev jobs, reach out! Not quite enjoying my current job.

Thanks for hosting us!

I'm a software developer in the Chicago suburbs with an interest in DevOps, and a fair amount of experience with Linux, kubernetes, aws, and terraform. If that's anything like your stack, I'm happy to help if I can.

Similar interests too, minus lifting plus fountain pens and woodworking. Ex-cat owner, sadly; both died of old age last year and my wife prefers we don't get another until the kids are older.

Glad to be here!

Hey I work in tech and live in chicago. I'd be happy to help out in any way I can. I keep linux boxen alive for a living.

I'm a freelance web developer. I'd be happy to pitch in with DevOps/SysAdmin stuff as needed.

This place rocks

Howdy!

Thanks for setting up this small (but obviously growing) part of the Fediverse!

Heyo, Northwest Ohio, checking in. Glad to be here.

What sort of skills you looking for? Do you pay in those aforementioned penis pills? ...asking for a friend