Title. I'm honestly hoping that I can eventually sunset this instance if everyone enjoys it more. I genuinely enjoy using it.

There's more variety of content there from a vast sea of instances versus here where it's only a few cliquey instances controlling who gets to have a voice on the Lemmyverse. This Lemmy instance is much harder to maintain due to the fact that I can't tell what images get uploaded here, which means anyone can use this as a free image host for illegal shit, and the fact that there's no user list that I can easily see. Moderation tools are nonexistent on here. It also eats up storage like crazy due to the fact that it rapidly caches images from scraped URLs and the few remaining instances that we still federate with. The software is downright frustrating to work with, and It feels less rewarding overall putting effort into this instance because it feels like we're so isolated. I'm going to be honest, when I put this instance back up, I felt a sense of dread when doing so.

Federation is pretty much broken from Lemmy to Mastodon/Misskey/Pleroma and their respective forks. So all we can get is this watered down content from the Lemmyverse from the few instances that still haven't figured out our existence, as well as the ensuing defederation that will surely follow once they've found out about us.

So I'd like to get your guys' opinion on this. Which software do you prefer? Sharkey or Lemmy?

Some random article that I found through searx'ing. I found it pretty amusing. I tried going on ebay to see how much these laptops are because I wanted to own a very bad laptop just for the novelty. They're not even worth the $45 that sellers are demanding.

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The network Burggit is on is experiencing performance issues. I'd encourage everyone to use shota.nu for right now if you can. I talked to the host about this and evidently it's an upstream issue with the datacenter.

The datacenter is refusing to help out with this and thinks everything is working fine so there's plans for migrating to a new datacenter that are underway sometime soon. So in the meantime, I'm afraid we need to just grin and bear it.

Lemmy errors out if the NFS mount is nonresponsive. It doesn't like not being able to access the huge swathe of pictures that are stored on the server. I've switched the NFS mount to TCP and have it retry the connection every second in an effort to mitigate the severe packet loss.

As I was composing this, the packet loss shot up to 90% so I don't think even that will help...

That's really all I can do for right now. I wish there was more that I could do to resolve this... 😔

Reminder that centralization is bad and anyone who thinks this arrangement where a big power player like this can control discourse and whether or not an instance basically dies likely has an affliction to where boots taste good.

This is non-negotiable. ~~If you want that stuff, then we're federated with rqd2.net, and you're free to go there for such needs.~~ Thank you for your understanding.