Hey all - hope everyone has enjoyed their February and the extra day!

Here’s a roundup of everything that has happened on Lemmy.zip over February and into March.

New Communities

We’ve had even more communities pop up this month, please check them out and subscribe if you like them!

• Star Trek
• The Amazing Digital Circus (Personal recommendation - I had no idea what to expect watching the pilot and enjoyed it very much!)

MaddieTian has also kindly brought the Xbox community back to life - please give it a sub and support it!

(PS - if you’re a community mod and would like feature your community here, let me know and I’ll happily pop it up here in April)

We still have one modless community - Apple - if you’re interested in taking this over let me know.

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Server Updates

It has been a bit of quiet month since last time. There have been no Lemmy releases but (at least from my perspective) most of the federation issues we had previously have been fixed and things seem a lot smoother.

The performance changes we’d also made to the server have appeared to worked wonders (again, thanks to locuester for their support with the database) and we’re sitting quite happy performance wise, with no major unplanned downtime.

Last time I discussed that we had doubled the image size from 1mb to 2mb per image, and throughout February we’ve doubled that again to 4mb. This hasn’t really had any impact on performance or storage, and I’m happy to keep it at 4mb for now, which should allow for quite good images. They still get compressed when they’re uploaded but it shouldn’t have too much of an impact. Here’s a 3mb image i did some testing with.

Our feedback survey closed and we’ve taken a look at the results/comments and we’re really thankful for all your responses. Many of you were very kind about the site which always makes me smile. The feedback isn’t something we can report back as %s of answers, but we have taken on board comments and suggestions. One of my key things is to rewrite the instance rules to be clearer and flow better, and also to separate out the moderator community conduct bit as its own section and expand a bit on that.

What was interesting to see though was that many people have gone “all in” on the fediverse and replaced the large tech company apps with fediverse alternatives.

Finally, ZippyBot has had a very small update to make the report confirmations less spammy by limiting who they go to and in what circumstances. I’ve also changed the way we deal with urgent reports by keyword filtering in the report, so if you include something like “CSAM” in the report the admins will get pinged on matrix so we’re at least aware faster of an issue.

In Zippy’s next update i’m hoping to include the ability for mods to add RSS feeds to their community (including filtering for certain words) but it is quite a large task so taking me and my limited python knowledge a bit longer than I’d like to get it done - but I’m almost there! If there are any other tools mods feel they’d benefit from then let me know - happy to build them into Zippy.

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Interaction reminder (help support the instance!)

If you’re new to Lemmy.zip - WELCOME! I hope you’re enjoying your time here :)

I just want to let everyone know that the easiest way you can support Lemmy.zip is to actively engage with content here: upvoting content you enjoy, sharing your thoughts through posts and comments, sparking meaningful discussions, or even creating new communities that resonate with your interests.

It’s natural to see fluctuations in user activity over time, and we’ve seen this over the wider lemmy-verse for some time now. However, if you’ve found a home here and love this space, now is the perfect opportunity to help us thrive.

If you want to support us in a different way than financially, then actively interacting with the instance helps us out loads.

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Donations

I hate banging on about money and I’m not very good at it, but here is the general reminder that Lemmy.zip only exists because of the generous donations of its users.

We keep all the details around donations on our OpenCollective page, with full transparency around income and expenditure.

Therefore, my ask is that if you’ve been enjoying your time here, please consider a donation - it will help keep Lemmy.zip online and all donations go to paying for the server and for the surrounding services like image hosting and email. We have options for one-off donations of any amount, or recurring donations at set amounts.

You can see all the kind donators in the Thank You thread - you could get your name in there too!

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Graph time

We’ve basically fully moved over to Grafana now for stats tracking, so here are some lovely graphs for you!, covering all of February.

Cpu:

Memory: (the dips are either server or database restarts)

Disk/storage:

Image storage:

Cloudflare overview:

Cloudflare requests:

Cloudflare bandwidth:

Cloudflare visitors:

Cloudflare traffic:

If there are any stats/graphs/insights i’ve not posted above but you’d like to see, let me know!

That’s it for now - but as always if you have any questions pop them below or pm me.

Hope everyone has a lovely March and I’ll be back again in April!

Cheers,

Demigodrick