It was created from scratch by SDF user laemeur who is a graphic artist/illustrator. We made stickers based off this design that are available in the https://sdf.org/?store

We just made it past 1000 signups this morning. Nearly everyone joining had very thoughtful and meaningful explanations of why they want to try using this instance. It is an amazing time for the internet and we truly appreciate SDF being a part of this.

Thank you for asking! As far as resources we're doing quite well hardware/network wise and our colocation provider in Seattle Washington has been incredibly helpful to us since September of 2022 when we needed to scale up Mastodon quickly.

On the Mastodon side folks there suggested a "Not a Blue Check Mark Club" as a fun and inexpensive way for the community to show support without having to make a big commitment. This has now been subscripted as "Not a Closed API Club"

It should also be clear that the best way to support SDF's efforts in the Fediverse is to use the resources and to talk to your friends about why Decentralized, Federated social networking is better for us all. And while it is not at all necessary, any financial support through donations or membership on the SDF Public Access UNIX side is greatly appreciated and goes to our mission of "a community platform for inspiring, facilitating and implementing new ideas".

[https://sdf.org/support](Not a Blue Check Mark / Not a Closed API Club)

Thanks to the work of DJ Sures and others they're actually able to do something now.

SDF in 2004

The mission statement is so simple:

-=- a community platform for inspiring, facilitating and implementing new ideas -=-

Here is where we're at now.

• increased cores and memory, hopefully we never touch swap again
• dedicated server for pict-rs with its own RAID
• dedicated server for lemmy, postgresql with its own RAID
• lemmy-ui and nginx run on both to handle ui requests

Thank you for everyone who stuck around and helped out, it is appreciated. We're working on additional suggested tweaks from the Lemmy community and hope to let lemmy.world try to DoS us again soon. Hopefully we'll do much better this time.

Here is what htop looks on one of them.

Here is what SDF's Toad-2 looked like prior to its installation.

We are working on improving load balancing today and distributing the instance across multiple servers. As a result, you may see some timeouts, thank you for your patience.

lemmy.sdfeu.org is coming soon

It is temporary as lemmy.world was cascading duplicates at us and the only way to keep the site up reliably was to temporarily drop them. We're in the process of adding more hardware to increase RAM, CPU cores and disk space. Once that new hardware is in place we can try turning on the firehose. Until then, please patient.

https://matrix.sdf.org is available to SDF members. There should be further details documented by the community at https://wiki.sdf.org regarding all of the social networking efforts at SDF.

3 Aberdeen fiber channel RAIDs. Each box has 16 x 6TB units storage yielding about 72TB of RAID (6 double parity).

Please consider our "Not a Blue Check Mark Club / Not a Closed API Club" as a way of supporting what we do. Thank you for being here! https://sdf.org/support

live updates in progress. Moved to SSDs, added more cores and 128GB and 64GB ram.

Some see it as lacking a second processor, additional memory and fans. We see opportunity and potential for growth (after a firmware flash 🤪)

Please try https://lemmy.sdfeu.org which is hosted in Düsseldorf Germany

Welcome to .. UI: 0.18.2-rc.1 BE: 0.18.1-10-g9c2490d4f

The NABU computer is a great deal. You can buy one directly from [http://www.pellmill.com/](Pell Mill) and with efforts made by DJ Sures and others at https://nabu.ca there is a thriving infrastructure and community around it. Its z80 based and capable of running CP/M. From there you can run the MSX emulator and play many MSX games.