The instance has been updated to Lemmy version 0.19.1.
Version 0.19.0 was reported to have an outgoing federation bug, meaning if you commented on something from another instance (lemmy.world, for example), nobody on that instance would see it.
Version 0.19.1 was supposed to fix that bug, so I decided to update. It turns out the bug is still there, so I re-opened the bug report. It's now back in their queue to be fixed.
Unfortunately there's no good way to roll back to 0.18.5 to get federation working again, because there were a lot of database changes going to 0.19.1. Restoring from the backup would mean losing a couple days of posts, and I don't think that's worth pursuing.
In other news, the picture storage that's built in to this Lemmy instance is now hosted in Cloudflare R2 storage. We were running out of room in the small VM that runs all this stuff, so this offloads a bunch of storage (relatively, as it's only 12GB of stuff, 24 including backup). This should be a very cost effective way to continue offering picture uploads. I think right now it should cost around $.02/month, but we'll find out after we get the first bill.
A combination of @djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social and I. I pay for the hosted VM which is about 7 euros a month, and the backups get pushed to DJ's rented server. An instance this size is pretty inexpensive to run, even on hosted equipment.
Is there some way we could contribute?
Thanks for asking. Some instances have a donation option, but we're good for now. Maybe in the future.
Instead, I'll defer to the main Lemmy developers, as they operate on donations. https://join-lemmy.org/donate
Ok, let me know if you and @djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social want some financial help.
That's kind to offer. Maybe when we work it a governance model with shared ownership for the lemmy, we'll ask all (volunteer) members to participate financially, but the amount will be tiny because it's cheap to run these things
Okay 🤷🏻♂️, I guess I will just have to spend my money on more shaving gear 😂
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I don't know why, but that reaction made me happy-chuckle
Thank you for the offer. I mentioned below that you can check this page out if you're interested in donating to the Lemmy devs https://join-lemmy.org/donate
We might take donations in the future, but for now it's so inexpensive it's not quite worth the trouble!