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@lemmy.caThere has been a steady trickle of new users here today, and in the past little while, mostly due to the bad decisions that reddit is currently making.
Anyways, welcome! Feel free to look around, and if you have any questions about anything lemmy related, feel free to ask!
Also, if you feel up to it, introduce yourself in the comments below!
edit: Here's a nice getting started guide for lemmy: https://tech.michaelaltfield.net/2023/06/11/lemmy-migration-find-subreddits-communities/
i should have added it here a while ago!
Recently I was asked if we'd be willing to reconsider federation with Hexbear, followed by CARCOSA reaching out to me to see if it was something we'd be open to.
They made a post asking if their community was interested in refederating with us, similarly I'd like the opinion of our local users.
Why refederate?
Hexbear has a decent number of sizable active communities:
These all seem fairly well moderated, giving us access to more diverse posts and viewpoints. A lot of our feed right now is dominated by US centric communities, and it'd be nice to get some more variety.
Why not?
They love trolling and I don't expect them to follow our rules when commenting (primarily "be civil").
Just looking at their thread about us, there's a significant number of immature replies slandering us / Canada. I'm not confident their users will engage in actual discussion in our threads, rather than just showing up to throw out insults and memes.
We can try to handle this by banning users / blocking specific communities, but that's going to increase moderation workload for both admins and mods. Hexbear is self admittedly quick to ban users on their side, but they also don't mind ban evasion - not ideal for us.
So what's next?
This is where we solicit your opinions, how does our community feel?
Edit: Well, it looks like the community is overwhelmingly against refederation. Decision made, thanks everyone for your feedback!
Currently the instance is the source of unmoderated trolls, and the instance admin seems unwilling to take action despite multiple reports sent.
We're therefore taking the action of defederating. We'd rather work with the instance admin to keep those trolls in check and minimize the disruption before taking a drastic action like this.
For transparency purpose, you can see which instances we are defederating from by accessing the https://lemmy.ca/instances page and going to the Blocked instances section.
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Hi everyone,
We'll be undergoing maintenance on Saturday morning from about 11am - noon PST.
We've been having some stability issues over the past few days that I've tracked down to database performance, so I'll be doing some tuning and also applying all our needed system updates at the same time.
Cheers!
Update: This is all done now!
Happy Canada Day everyone.
Related to the outage that happened last night, we rebooted the Lemmy services but we're still trying to figure out the root cause, which seems to point to an out of memory issue in the logs. However it's not what we see in our monitoring console.
In the meantime, we will monitor the service more closely until we are confident the issue is resolved, and we will improve our tools to detect such a problem faster.
EDIT: Also happened at night on July 2nd, still trying to find the root cause..
Apologies for the extended downtime.
It may be a few hours till things are up, please bear with us in the meantime.
See status here: https://status.lemmy.ca/
It looks like the alternative frontends are (partially) working:
Also happy Canada Day!