Hi all, bit late this week but lots of content!

Previous Parts

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TL;DR

• Feedback closes Friday 22nd
• Spam updates
• ZippyBot updates
• Interaction reminder!
• Donations are always welcome :)
• Graphs and stats

Feedback

We’ve had a great response to our request for feedback, thank you so much. We’re going to close the survey on Friday (time undetermined right now) so please, if you haven’t yet done so, add your thoughts into the survey soon. Every piece of feedback goes a long way to helping improve this instance.

Spam updates

As many will have seen, and as we as admins have been dealing with, there is currently lots of spam coming from Kbin instances. Unfortunately due to the ActivityPub implementation, moderation actions on Kbin don’t federate to Lemmy, and we’re needing to deal with quite large waves of constant spam from certain kbin communities. We’re not the only ones dealing with this, and we don’t want to defederate from Kbin altogether, so we’ve temporarily put a block on the Kbin.social instances that provide the most spam. These are:

• Random
• Gaming
• Technology
• Tech
• PCGaming
• Science

We will continue to review and remove these when we’re able to do so. This is the lightest touch way we can do this, and as per our policy we absolutely dont want to be defederating and stopping their users posting on our instance.

ZippyBot Updates

We identified a gap in our signup process where users weren’t recieveing enough information from Lemmy when creating an account, and so were resetting passwords or asking for help when we just hadn’t been able to approve the account yet (we need to sleep too!). So ZippyBot now captures accounts that have verified their emails but have not yet been accepted and will send them an email that looks a bit like the following: (you might need to zoom in!)

Hopefully this should help smooth out the signup process.

Interaction reminder

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

This is my regular reminder to people to please interact with the instance. That can be in the form of upvoting content, creating posts or comments and generating discussion, or even creating communities and gather like-minded people to discuss a topic.

Interaction is one of the key measures that helps rank Lemmy instances, and we’ve been able to punch above our weight in terms of user numbers vs activity. This helps promote the instance and in turn bring new people in. Please do interact, it helps out so, so much!

Donations

As always, we’re extremely thankful to people who are kind enough and in a position to donate. You can always see the instance’s financial position on OpenCollective, and what we’re aiming towards. If you do donate, you’ll get your name in the Thank You Thread.

Recently we improved our server’s performance which has greatly improved uptime again, but this comes with additional cost. Thankfully we’re in a pretty good position due the generosity of our users, but if you want to help secure the future of the instance, please check it out.

Want to help but not in a position to do so financially? Then please remember to interact with the instance! The more users who interact = the better Lemmy.zip becomes!

Now for the graphs!

Here is a pic of our CPU usage over the last week. Unfortunately Hetzner doesnt show enough detail to see the true peaks and troughs of CPU usage, but it gives an idea of the general usage:

And here are some network stats:

(We’re looking at better performance management software and seeing if we can share this with you in real time)

These are our backblaze image hosting stats:

And here are our Cloudflare stats:

Including more detail on bandwidth:

And finally location traffic:

Thats all this week - if you want to see anything else in these, please let me know down below.

Thanks

Demigodrick