TheDude

@TheDude@sh.itjust.works

Entrepreneur, developer, seasoned system and network engineer, aspiring hobbyist pilot, husband and father.

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TheDude, (edited )

Yes, I’ll get this done

UPDATE: here you go oldsh.itjust.works

TheDude,

The biggest consumer of storage on this instance is related to the image hosting which we use an external object storage provider for. The second is the database which is no were near the 2TB capacity. 1TB SSDs are cheaper than 2TB SSDs and I also didn’t want to spend more than I needed. As other mentioned if we need more space or IOPs in the future, I could accomplish this by adding more drives as a quick fix. This server does not support NVME unless I leverage its PCIe ports but I don’t plan on doing that. By the time this instance gets to the point where 10 SSD drives just isn’t cutting it anymore I’ll probably have come across another opportunities on getting a new server with better NVME support.

TheDude,

There was a little hiccup this morning unrelated to the migration tonight. The Lemmy services like to be restarted every once in a while. Once we move to the new hardware I’ll be able to look into implementing a better logging system and hopefully be more proactive when situations like these happen.

TheDude,

I’ve started the preparation steps to minimize the maintenance window needed for this upgrade. These operations are running some background tasks and once they are done I’ll make an announcement to give everyone a few days heads up of the anticipated upgrade time and date. Should be soon.

TheDude,

Hey!

The best way is to @TheDude on our matrix channel. This action triggers notifications across all my devices, creating a barrage of alerts that almost always grab my attention, a.k.a a ddos to my sensory system.

@kersploosh explained it well. It was related to a small bug on the pictrs service that I’ve already reported which they quickly fixed in a newer version. I will tackle this upgrade at the same time as I get this instance up to v19

[Discussion] Overly Lax Instance moderation here

before people criticize me I am not using my main account because I do not feel safe bringing up these issues there, as these people and issues still are not dealt with. I do not want to put myself in danger, I will not be engaging in or attempting to post polls or votes here....

TheDude,

@InEnduringGrowStrong in the perfect world community admins should be moderating their communities and the site admins should only be called upon when there is community abuse or when community mods are not doing any moderation.

As @antik mentioned below @MichelleG is an alt account for same person on lemmy.world ans she has provided tons of help to this instance.

You are right about one thing, I am currently stretched really thin. If made a list of all my responsibilities I think it would shock a lot of you. That being said the amount of time it takes to run a community is astonishing and running a community well requires a lot more time than I have left to give. There is still a lot of work needed to be spent on this site.

The admins of this site help a huge amount as is mostly due to them that we are still running but I don’t want to dump more onto their plates.

I could use a lot more help in all areas (system administration, community moderation, legal revision, moving to accepting donations).

If anyone is interested in helping reach out on Matrix.

TheDude,

Hi there

Sent you a message on the matrix chat. This should now be fixed.

Thank you

TheDude,

The original rules of lemmy.comfysnug.space explicitly allowed for loli content to be posted. I associate loli content with pedophilia and therefore was the reason why I had defederated with them.

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    TheDude,

    Hey all,

    I will be locking this voting thread as they do not conform to the Agora guidelines.

    • Voting threads should run from Friday to Friday
    • Voting threads should be started by a member of The Agora moderation team and must reference the discussion thread.

    In addition, it appears that hexbear has reversed their decision and has removed us from their allowed list.

    As Lemmy looks to add the ability for users to decide which instances they want to blocked on a per user basis, I hope these types of defederation conversations discussion become less common.

    I’d like to give a thanks to the admin at hexbear carc0sa who reached out to us in the last week in order to coordinate some mutual moderation between instances.

    Lastly over the last week I’ve read a lot of back and forth between instances and want to leave you with this.

    As people we all have the right to our own opinions and beliefs. Sometimes from time to time we might come across someone who doesn’t share these same opinions or beliefs. Instead of using these differences as reasons to divide us, I hope we as people can get to a point where we can use it to make us more understanding, knowledgeable, accepting and united.

    As things such as Natural Disasters continue to rise globally there might be a day where the person who you disagree with is the same person who is helping you or a loved one. It won’t matter if they are a leftist, rightist, white, black, LGBTQ. What will matter is whether they are a decent human being who understands that while opinions make differences they can choose to not be divide by it.

    TheDude,

    Could you provide some additional information on what is not functioning well? Screenshots with errors are also very valuable.

    TheDude,

    Hey all,

    I have made some changes to how this instance sends email that should help with the email issues people have been experiencing. If anyone continues to have issues receiving emails please let me know

    Thank you

    TheDude,

    @Buddahriffic Please send me a DM with the username and email address used to sign up and I’ll manually verify your account.

    TheDude,

    Hey,

    I did some research on this.

    I will not share the list of accounts as I feel its everyone right to vote and to have their own opinions whether they align with yours or not.

    I will however say, Its mostly the same accounts that are down voting you. The majority of the accounts are over 2 months old with content generated by them (they do not seem like bot account). There are a few that are just 10 days old. 99% of the down votes are from other instances with feddit.uk and feddit.nl being the primary source of them.

    Trying to sign up on sh.itjust.works l, no verification email sent

    Hello, I am trying to sign up on sh.itjust.works, and I filled out the sign up form, but when it told me it would send a verification email, it never actually sent it. I tried signing up again and am told the email already exists. I try to sign in and nothing happens, I dont get an error it just doesnt do anything. I have...

    TheDude,

    The big email email providers are not liking the amount of email coming from the server ip. The permanent fix is to use a mail sending service. I do plan on making that adjustment soon.

    In the meanwhile send me a dm with your username and email address used and I’ll verify the account for you.

    Thanks

    TheDude,

    Please DM me your username and email address used to register and i’ll get it sorted out.

    Thank you

    TheDude,

    Hey there,

    Send me a PM with what you want to create and i’ll create and transfer it over to you. Disabled it for now until i add additional functionality to the mod bot.

    TheDude,

    You should not be blocked from editing communities. If that’s the case we’ll have to open an issue with lemmy

    TheDude,

    Hey all, I’m always excited to upgrade to the latest versions that become available. Unless the upgrade is related to security I will tend to wait a few days to give other instances a chance to share their experiences. Before upgrading I usually go over the issues that have been submitted to help understand the risks and solutions to mitigate them.

    That being said the new version does bring in a whole bunch of performance gains (mostly related to the database) that i’m looking forward to.

    Lemmy.world is due to upgrade later today and I plan on upgrading shortly after them (either Monday or Tuesday).

    I will put up a notification up prior to the upgrade.

    Thanks

    TheDude,

    Hi there,

    Some providers are rejecting mail from the IP. In the meanwhile send me a PM with your account name and email and I’ll get you sorted.

    Thank you

    TheDude,

    Hi all,

    I somewhat explain some of the recent downtime here sh.itjust.works/comment/1341394

    Postmortems are really great when they are done well and you have a team of sysadmins to collaborate with. As you probably know most instance operators and moderators are volunteering their time (and sometimes money) to keep these instances online. As the lemmyverse matures in age and development things will get better. In the meanwhile there will be some hiccups along the way.

    When I have some extra time I plan on sharing more details about all of this. In the meanwhile check in on our chat. I’m pretty active there and can always provide additional insights on whats going on during an outage.

    TheDude,

    It helps monitor reports at the moment.

    TheDude,

    This is an issue with Lemmy. You cannot delete private messages, it needs to be done from the database. Luckily this instance and lemmy.world have implemented some measures to have these links removed automagically. If other instance admins are reading this and would like to know more about the measures we put into place feel free to reach out to me via pm or over on our matrix channel.

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