just to expand on that a bit, lemmygrad was blocked because even though one of their main rules is “be respectful”, they definitely weren’t, and they weren’t doing anything about the users not being respectful, thus they were blocked.

i’ve been running this instance since Jan/Feb 2022. @kinetix@lemmy.ca ran it before me for about 2 years I believe?

so far, it doesn’t take up much of my time. i get very few reports to deal with, and upgrading/maintenance is quick and easy.

in the past few days, it’s been mostly going through new user applications, but that’s quick and easy too.

if we continue to grow, i will probably be looking for some help with administering this instance, as i’m guessing it will become too much for one person to handle.

yes, i’m currently using lunanode. i’ve used them in the past, and like their feature set and their pricing seems fair.

FYI, this is an old post, before I took over hosting lemmy.ca.

it is now currently hosted on a Canadian VPS.

i responded in that support post. sorry I didn’t see it sooner, I must have hit the Unsubscribe button accidentally at some point.

see my answer above, if you search for either https://infosec.pub/c/securitynews or !securitynews@infosec.pub, then click on the link that shows up, it should start working.

weird, for some reason I wasn’t subscribed to this community. Sorry about that! On to your question:

https://lemmy.ca/c/support@beehaw.org will work now, but only because you have to first search for it, either using the url for the instance it’s on (https://beehaw.org/c/support) or the following format (!support@beehaw.org).

I believe that’s just how the federation works on lemmy, if the no one has searched and/or subscribed to the remote community, you will get the 404 error code.

hope that makes sense!

edit: also, when searching for it, give it a good 5-10 seconds for the result to show up. i believe it needs to query the server and takes a bit sometimes.

thanks! i appreciate it! i think i’m going to set something up soon, as it seems there’s some interest in that.

no, that’s not possible. Matrix uses it’s own protocol.

yes, if you have a Matrix account, or if you create one and put it in there, then other users will see a “Send Secure Message” button on your profile page, which will open Matrix to send you an encrypted message.

it’s currently running on a 4 CPU 2 GB vps. should do the trick for now.

just wanted to move to a more economical hosting company. been meaning to do it for a while, but figured I should do it since we’re starting to see some growth.

not really the same thing, but each instance could have their own custom theme(s). I’ve thought about it but never actually tried.

bbs’s were a lot of fun back in the day!

if you have the url for the community (usually https://<instance>/c/<community>, for example: https://beehaw.org/c/music), click on the top-right menu bar, then the magnifying glass. enter/paste the community url into the search field, click on search. it should show up as one of the results (and sometimes takes a try or two for some reason?).

the result you want will look something like this:

also, if you know the url, you can also just figure out the url for the local instance:

https://lemmy.ca/c/<community>@<instance>, for example: https://lemmy.ca/c/music@beehaw.org

hope that makes sense!

i think jerboa is the only actively developed one currently. it’s developed by one of the main lemmy developers as well.

i currently just use a web browser, to access on mobile & desktop, it works well enough for me.

there’s also this which aggregates a bunch of instances:

https://browse.feddit.de/

this might help too: https://browse.feddit.de/

also, this might help too: https://browse.feddit.de/

yes, that’s exactly it!

yeah, basically. if no one from this instance is subscribed to a remote community then it won’t show up in the search.

I just ran a quick test. I found the fashion community from lemmy.ml (by searching directly on their site), and subscribed to it. now when you search here for fashion it shows up. so you might be better off searching some of the bigger instances directly, then subscribing to them from here.

you can also just browse the communities on lemmy.ca, and search for them on .ml to subscribe to them. or you can just create another account too.

this was asked in a different thread, and I don’t have anything setup for that yet. will probably get something going soon, as the instance is slowly growing.

I noticed this recently too. it might be due to the language setting? I was trying to post something with English set ad my language, and got the spinner forever, then changed to Undetermined, and it worked.

we recently got a small 10 gal aquarium, and have most tetras, and a few platy’s. we’re really new to this and don’t really know what we’re doing, haha!

I could be wrong, but I believe when you search it searches all constant that has been “federated” to the server your searching on. in other words, any remote communities that are subscribed by users on this instance will be searched. something along those lines, anyways, haha.

Great to have you here. There is some interoperability between lemmy and mastodon now, but I think there might be some issues?

I don’t currently have anything setup for donations. if this instance keeps growing I might set something up.

no, in most cases you don’t need to. you’re already posting on a community from a different instance.

I like this idea as well. I could put it on my matrix server, or wherever else, doesn’t really matter to me. Can also put it in the sidebar of the instance as well.

Hmmm, that’s weird, it should be. it was a few days ago I believe. I’ll check in with the devs. Thanks for letting me know!

edit: apparently it was a bug in the RC version of lemmy i was running for a few days. now that i’m on the release 0.17.3, it should be back on there later today.

there’s no way currently to transfer accounts, as far as I know.

partial upgrades aren’t supported I believe, but i believe if you really wanted you could add the following line to your /etc/pacman.conf:

IgnorePkg = linux

myself, I just depending on the server i’m upgrading, i just don’t update as frequently and reboot the machine if needed (i don’t think there’s any getting around that).

i think the lemmy dev’s have said that lemmy.ml (which has many more active users) runs on a very low resource machine as well, plus they have a bunch of other stuff running on the same machine too, i can’t remember the exact specs however.

Hello & welcome!

I’m currently running this on a small VPS at linode, but i’ve been thinking about switching to a more canadian-based vps that i’ve used in the past.

lemmy the software has very low system requirements, so it’s currently running on a 1 CPU 2 GB RAM vm.

edit: whoops meant to say “low”, not “slow”!

there’s also rustic, which is currently in beta i believe, but it’s basically the rust equivalent of restic.

Hello! I agree that this instance does seem a little quiet lately. There was a small uptick in registration when the whole reddit api thing was announced, but not a whole lot of new content.

As for me, my son has started his baseball season, so we’ve been busy with that, and his birthday is also coming up so that’s kept us busy with planning and organizing as well.

Definitely enjoying the warmer weather!

A public explanation of where to find this ‘start deliver’-button would be super if possible. I might have to notify a few for the my larger community. 😉

i’m not 100% sure sorry, i’m pretty sure it’s just something a mastodon admin has access to.

edit: tried to open a comment or account from various instances I’m on: Mastodon: brands.town, die-partei.social

Friendica: friendica.xyz, loma.ml

None worked. Maybe I’ll rather give up on this.

i’m not sure what you mean by this? do you mean you tried to follow your lemmy.ca account from those instances and none worked?

here’s a link to the article: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/prince-albert-police-sirt-umpherville-1.6823509