Two week (well 17 days) update!

Hey all,

It's been slightly over two weeks since lemmyrs started. It's been pretty fun watching the community grow!

Some instance stats for you:

$ df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs            97M  1.7M   96M   2% /run
/dev/vda1        24G   15G  7.1G  68% /
tmpfs           485M     0  485M   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs           5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
tmpfs            97M  4.0K   97M   1% /run/user/1002

$ free -mh
               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:           969Mi       445Mi        77Mi       134Mi       445Mi       240Mi
Swap:          2.3Gi       571Mi       1.8Gi

lemmy=# select count(id) from local_user;
 count
-------
   294
(1 row)

We're cutting it pretty close in terms of RAM and Disk usage, the user growth rate has mostly flat-lined though once r/rust came back online so I'm not too concerned. When (If) it's time I'll likely bump up the Vultr instance plan to something which will continue to serve us for the foreseeable future.

Previous relevant posts:

pohart 6 points 3 years ago

I think it's likely to spike again when the api goes dark. I haven't been back there, is any consensus forming regarding whether people will use /r/rust, !rust@lemmyrs.org, or !rust@programming.dev going forward?

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Aloso 3 points 3 years ago

Looking at the stats, !rust@lemmyrs.org is slightly more popular than !rust@programming.dev. But I don't think there's a consensus on how to proceed; the r/rust moderators have been reluctant to recommend Lemmy, even though they want to move away from Reddit – which makes sense, since Lemmy still lacks good moderation tools, from what I've heard.

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pohart 2 points 3 years ago

Lemmy still lacks good moderation tools, from what I’ve heard.

The user UX could use some work too. I'm pretty comfortable now, but getting set up subscribed to the communities I wanted wasn't straightforward. And I keep expecting my !community@server.tld links to work even though (I think) I know how to do it.

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admin 3 points 3 years ago

I think it’s likely to spike again when the api goes dark

That's a fair point. I think I might bump up the specs of this instance over the weekend (will make an announcement prior).

I haven’t been back there, is any consensus forming regarding whether people will use /r/rust, !rust@lemmyrs.org, or !rust@programming.dev going forward?

I am still of the opinion that both can (and probably should) co-exist. This particular instance will always be Rust focused, federated and have rust dedicated micro-communities. Whether it continues to grow only time will tell I suppose.

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Aloso 2 points 3 years ago

Will you update to Lemmy 0.18.0 (announced today)? The new HTTP API is allegedly more lightweight.

By the way, I updated my dark theme published here :)

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admin 2 points 3 years ago

Will you update to Lemmy 0.18.0 (announced today)? The new HTTP API is allegedly more lightweight.

Of course I will! I was just waiting for a few more instances to bump theirs before I update this one.

By the way, I updated my dark theme published here for lemmy-ui 0.18.0 :)

Most excellent, I have been using your CSS with Stylebot :) You could also submit a PR to lemmy-ui repo btw with your custom theme so it gets even easier for people to try.

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Aloso 2 points 3 years ago

Most excellent, I have been using your CSS with Stylebot :)

Since I've turned it into UserCSS, I think you need the Stylus extension to use it now, sorry 😄

I wanted to make a PR for lemmy-ui, but haven't gotten around to it yet.

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Deebster 1 point 3 years ago

Would you be open to hosting communities for Rusty projects? I assume the answer is yes, but not with free-for-all community creation enabled.

While this is just curiosity with no group in mind, I jumped onto /r/bevy (which I wasn't even sure existed) and there's a sticky saying they're looking for a new home.

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admin 1 point 3 years ago

So there's two options (assuming /r/bevy even wants to consider migrating here):

We setup a dedicated Bevy community
/r/bevy could potentially use the existing Rust: Game Development community we have here

I don't really have preference either way. I do think that project-specific communities could certainly become a thing if people prefer to keep discussions laser focused.

And yeah, unfortunately I can't really make it free-for-all community creation simply because of potential DDOS/spam attacks and things rampantly becoming out of hand (part of the reason the instance is also application based).

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Deebster 1 point 3 years ago

I'm not advocating for free-for-all at all! Perhaps Lemmy will get application-based community creation down the line, but until then you can always have a thread open, a comm-application community or just tell people to message you.

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