Lemmy.World Announcements ruud • 2 weeks ago • 91%

blog.mastodon.world

Finally a new blog post about all our instances and the finances..

Lemmy.World Announcements ruud • 3 months ago • 95%

cross-posted from: https://toast.ooo/post/3740832 > *turns out I did my math wrong, so it’s a little less than 30 days* > > # July 12th, 2024 @ midnight EDT > > https://canvas.fediverse.events > > ✨ this year’s event also supports **the entire fediverse** *not just Lemmy!* > > (you have to be able to make/receive text posts, like mastodon, lemmy, pixelfed, etc) > (peertube accounts will not work) > > you can get update announcements on other fedi platforms with `@canvas@fediverse.events` [link](https://social.fediverse.events/@canvas) > > chat about Canvas on [Matrix](https://matrix.to/#/#canvas:aftermath.gg) or [Discord](https://discord.gg/mEUqXZw8kR) (they’re bridged)

Fediverse ruud • 4 months ago • 96%

Woo-hoo today's my cake-day on Lemmy.world.. actually I'm the first here but many will follow the next days. Happy cake day to you all!

Lemmy.World Announcements ruud • 6 months ago • 96%

Currently we have an images issue. Our Wasabi (S3) account was disabled because of some illegal content that was found, we're working with them to get the account re-enabled and the content removed. [Update 20240308 14:47 UTC] The issue has been fixed.

Tezzting

Lemmy.World Announcements ruud • 7 months ago • 94%

There's some unrest because the Open Collective Foundation is stopping. Don't worry, we use Open Collective Europe as a donations platform, they're going nowhere. We've added some donation platforms, so if you would like to support us running our .world servers, you can do so here: - [Ko-Fi](https://ko-fi.com/fhfworld)‬ (Preferred because of low fees) - [Liberapay](https://liberapay.com/fhf/) - [PayPal](https://paypal.me/fedihosting) - [Patreon](https://patreon.com/mastodonworld) - [OpenCollective](https://opencollective.com/mastodonworld) - [Bunq](https://bunq.me/fhf) And for those wanting to donate crypto: - Monero address: `83tnuFN4f28jRxTBW9qGDad2U23qNE5nfeW4Pfyd85oWMW7J9gqpXi3S8FDbX5uEeCAKcGnSpS2XT5dGwYiELthg8XuDrxH` - Cardano address: `addr1v9qv6xvfwcx9ny56uag4umu6238sw2e7ff2kcxl3qe7p9esayjxgu` Thank you! [Edit] Some of the links were broken, they should now all work! [Edit 20240314: Added Liberapay]

Fediverse ruud • 8 months ago • 100%

sharkey.world

Next to Mastodon.world and Lemmy.world I am also running Calckey.world. This was running Calckey, a Misskey fork. That was re-branded to FireFish (that's the danger of running sites with the software name in the URL... :-) ). Unfortunately due to circumstances the FireFish software will no longer be maintained. Therefore I was looking for another Misskey fork that could replace it, and I found [Sharkey](https://git.joinsharkey.org/Sharkey/Sharkey). This looks really nice. So being who I am, I registered https://sharkey.world and installed it. It still needs some configuring and branding, but it works and you can use it! (As you will see it currently uses the Calckey.world branding) I will write a brief how-to on migrating from Calckey to Sharkey and hope the calckey.world users will migrate.

Fediverse ruud • 12 months ago • 82%

I run a server https://calckey.world , which used to be CalcKey, but the software was re-branded to Firefish. Unfortunately, firefish.world is taken. What domain should I use for my new Firefish instance? Preferably a .world domain. I have remembered these options suggested to me so far: - dartfish.world (a sort of fish similar to the firefish) - fedifish.world - fire-fish.world - f-fish.world Any other suggestions? Or do you like one of the above?

Lemmy.World Announcements ruud • 12 months ago • 96%

blog.mastodon.world

I've written a short blog about what happened in August, and the finances.

Fediverse ruud • 12 months ago • 96%

bookwyrm.world

I did it again.... started another Fediverse service, this time a Bookwyrm instance. I used Goodreads, but if there's a Federated alternative, why not use that.. So I setup a server and opened registrations. Enjoy, and please let me know if you find anything that can be improved or changed.

Lemmy.World Announcements ruud • 1 year ago • 99%

There was another attack going on (as you might have noticed). We're working on a fix. In the meantime, we've blocked the listing of comments, so we at least aren't down, but it did break comments. Hope to have a fix in the next hour. Stay tuned! **Update** OK we've implemented a fix, again many thanks to [@sunaurus@lemm.ee](https://lemm.ee/u/sunaurus) for his assistance. This will prevent the outages we've seen last couple of days. Let's see what they will come up with next...

Lemmy.World Announcements ruud • 1 year ago • 94%

www.etsy.com

A few days ago I saw some cool [JoinLemmy stickers](https://www.etsy.com/listing/1532398821/place-2023sticker-packsmotivational?click_key=202669597a80d6f60b5afb9b21260113b41e3b90%3A1532398821&click_sum=dc8e01d4&ref=shop_home_active_33) created by [@cheeseblintzes@lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/u/cheeseblintzes) . I asked her if she could also create lemmy.world stickers, and she did! You can see and order them [here](https://www.etsy.com/listing/1535729033/lemmyworld-stickers-motivational), also check the [other cool stickers in her shop](https://www.etsy.com/shop/thespookyfarmer). Thanks for creating them!

Lemmy.World Announcements ruud • 1 year ago • 86%

Lemmy.world has been down between 02:00 UTC and 05:45 UTC. This was caused by the database spiking to 100% cpu (all 32 cores/64 threads!) due to inefficient queries been fired to the db very often. I’ve collected the logs and we’ll be checking how to prevent this. (And what caused this)

Lemmy.World Announcements ruud • 1 year ago • 92%

**Update** The upgrade was done, DB migrations took around 5 minutes. We'll keep an eye out for (new) issues but for now it seems to be OK. **Original message** We will upgrade lemmy.world to 0.18.3 today at 20:00 UTC+2 ([Check what this isn in your timezone](https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Lemmy.world+upgrade+to+lemmy+18.3&iso=20230730T20&p1=16)). Expect the site to be down for a few minutes. ""Edit"" I was warned it could be more than a few minutes. The database update might even take 30 minutes or longer. Release notes for 0.18.3 can be found here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/main/RELEASES.md (This is unrelated to the downtimes we experienced lately, those are caused by attacks that we're still looking into mitigating. Sorry for those)

Vinyl and LPs - Analogue Music Goodness ruud • 1 year ago • 100%

Now playing: Silver eye by Goldfrapp.

www.youtube.com

I saw this post by @miketorr@mastodon.art And I don't know what it is, but I like it very much! So now I'm curious! Already asked a DJ friend of mine, he thought in the direction of Massive Attack / Boards of Canada but we didn't find it.

Lemmy.World Announcements ruud • 1 year ago • 98%

Today, like the past few days, we have had some downtime. Apparently some script kids are enjoying themselves by targeting our server (and others). Sorry for the inconvenience. Most of these 'attacks' are targeted at the database, but some are more ddos-like and can be mitigated by using a CDN. Some other Lemmy servers are using Cloudflare, so we know that works. Therefore we have chosen Cloudflare as CDN / DDOS protection platform for now. We will look into other options, but we needed something to be implemented asap. For the other attacks, we are using them to investigate and implement measures like rate limiting etc.

Lemmy.World Announcements ruud • 1 year ago • 99%

As requested by some users: 'old' style now accessible via https://old.lemmy.world Code can be found here: https://github.com/rystaf/mlmym , created by [Ryan](https://github.com/rystaf) (Is he here?) (Yes he appears to be! [@nnrx@sh.itjust.works](https://sh.itjust.works/u/nnrx) ! Thanks for this awesome front-end!)

Lemmy.World Announcements ruud • 1 year ago • 98%

Thanks to [@aeharding@lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/u/aeharding) for another release with awesome enhancements, see release notes here: https://lemmy.world/post/1558795

Lemmy.World Announcements ruud • 1 year ago • 99%

blog.mastodon.world

I blogged about what happened in June, and the financial overview.

Lemmy.World Announcements ruud • 1 year ago • 98%

It's always the small things you overlook... The `docker-compose.yml` I copied from somewhere when setting up lemmy.world apparently was missing the external network for the pictrs container.. So pictrs was working, as long as it got the images via Lemmy. Getting the images via URL didn't work... Looks like it's working now. Looks a whole lot better with all the images :-) **Edit** For existing posts: Edit the post, then Save. (No need to change anything). This also fetches the image.

Lemmy.World Announcements ruud • 1 year ago • 96%

(Duplicate post :-) see https://lemmy.world/post/1375042)

Techno ruud • 1 year ago • 100%

Let me contribute an oldie favorite.

Voyager ruud • 1 year ago • 99%

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1303201 > We've installed Voyager and it's reachable at https://m.lemmy.world, you can browse Lemmy, and login there (also if your account isn't on lemmy.world)

Lemmy.World Announcements ruud • 1 year ago • 98%

We've installed Voyager and it's reachable at https://m.lemmy.world, you can browse Lemmy, and login there (also if your account isn't on lemmy.world) **PS** Thanks go out to @stux[@stux@geddit.social](https://geddit.social/u/stux) , he came up with the idea (see https://m.geddit.social).

Lemmy.World Announcements ruud • 1 year ago • 99%

While I was asleep, apparently the site was hacked. Luckily, (big) part of the lemmy.world team is in US, and some early birds in EU also helped mitigate this. As I am told, this was the issue: - There is an vulnerability which was exploited - Several people had their JWT cookies leaked, including at least one admin - Attackers started changing site settings and posting fake announcements etc Our mitigations: - We removed the vulnerability - Deleted all comments and private messages that contained the exploit - Rotated JWT secret which invalidated all existing cookies The vulnerability will be fixed by the Lemmy devs. [Details of the vulnerability are here](https://lemmy.world/post/1293336) Many thanks for all that helped, and sorry for any inconvenience caused! **Update** While we believe the admins accounts were what they were after, it could be that other users accounts were compromised. Your cookie could have been 'stolen' and the hacker could have had access to your account, creating posts and comments under your name, and accessing/changing your settings (which shows your e-mail). For this, you would have had to be using lemmy.world at that time, and load a page that had the vulnerability in it.

Lemmy.World Announcements ruud • 1 year ago • 99%

We've updated Lemmy.world to Lemmy 0.18.1. For the release notes, see https://lemmy.world/post/1139237

Selfhosted ruud • 1 year ago • 98%

Anyone running Forgejo? It's I think a fork of Gitea. They are also [implementing federation](https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues/59)

Lemmy.World Announcements ruud • 1 year ago • 99%

For those who find it interesting, enjoy!

Vinyl and LPs - Analogue Music Goodness ruud • 1 year ago • 87%

I've been to the M72 concerts (both nights) in Amsterdam, in April. Bought the album too. (I'll check why the image got rotated...)

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Lemmy.World Announcements ruud • 1 year ago • 99%

Another day, another update. More troubleshooting was done today. What did we do: - Yesterday evening @phiresky[@phiresky@lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/u/phiresky) did some SQL troubleshooting with some of the lemmy.world admins. After that, phiresky submitted some PRs to github. - [@cetra3@lemmy.ml](https://lemmy.ml/u/cetra3) created a docker image containing 3PR's: [Disable retry queue](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3468), [Get follower Inbox Fix](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3482), [Admin Index Fix](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3483) - We started using this image, and saw a big drop in CPU usage and disk load. - We saw thousands of errors per minute in the nginx log for old clients trying to access the websockets (which were removed in 0.18), so we added a `return 404` in nginx conf for `/api/v3/ws`. - We updated lemmy-ui from RC7 to RC10 which fixed a lot, among which the issue with replying to DMs - We found that the many 502-errors were caused by an issue in Lemmy/markdown-it.actix or whatever, causing nginx to temporarily mark an upstream to be dead. As a workaround we can either 1.) Only use 1 container or 2.) set ~~`proxy_next_upstream timeout;`~~ `max_fails=5` in nginx. Currently we're running with 1 lemmy container, so the 502-errors are completely gone so far, and because of the fixes in the Lemmy code everything seems to be running smooth. If needed we could spin up a second lemmy container using the ~~`proxy_next_upstream timeout;`~~ `max_fails=5` workaround but for now it seems to hold with 1. Thanks to [@phiresky@lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/u/phiresky) , [@cetra3@lemmy.ml](https://lemmy.ml/u/cetra3) , [@stanford@discuss.as200950.com](https://discuss.as200950.com/u/stanford), [@db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com](https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/u/db0) , [@jelloeater85@lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/u/jelloeater85) , [@TragicNotCute@lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/u/TragicNotCute) for their help! And not to forget, thanks to [@nutomic@lemmy.ml](https://lemmy.ml/u/nutomic) and [@dessalines@lemmy.ml](https://lemmy.ml/u/dessalines) for their continuing hard work on Lemmy! And thank you all for your patience, we'll keep working on it! Oh, and as bonus, an image (thanks Phiresky!) of the change in bandwidth after implementing the new Lemmy docker image with the PRs.  **Edit** So as soon as the US folks wake up (hi!) we seem to need the second Lemmy container for performance. So that's now started, and I noticed the `proxy_next_upstream timeout` setting didn't work (or I didn't set it properly) so I used `max_fails=5` for each upstream, that does actually work.

Lemmy.World Announcements ruud • 1 year ago • 99%

# Status update July 4th Just wanted to let you know where we are with Lemmy.world. ## Issues As you might have noticed, things still won't work as desired.. we see several issues: ### Performance - Loading is mostly OK, but sometimes things take forever - We (and you) see many 502 errors, resulting in empty pages etc. - System load: The server is roughly at 60% cpu usage and around 25GB RAM usage. (That is, if we restart Lemmy every 30 minutes. Else memory will go to 100%) ### Bugs - Replying to a DM doesn't seem to work. When hitting reply, you get a box with the original message which you can edit and save (which does nothing) - 2FA seems to be a problem for many people. It doesn't always work as expected. ## Troubleshooting We have many people helping us, with (site) moderation, sysadmin, troubleshooting, advise etc. There currently are 25 people in our Discord, including admins of other servers. In the Sysadmin channel we are with 8 people. We do troubleshooting sessions with these, and sometimes others. One of the Lemmy devs, [@nutomic@lemmy.ml](https://lemmy.ml/u/nutomic) is also helping with current issues. So, all is not yet running smoothly as we hoped, but with all this help we'll surely get there! Also thank you all for the donations, this helps giving the possibility to use the hardware and tools needed to keep Lemmy.world running!