This is the dream.

After extensive testing, I might have figured it out.

Any JPEG image with truecolor, 100% JPEG quality, and >5 megapixels silently fails. It’s very specific but I’ll see what else I can do.

edit: I think I figured it out (again). Lemmy has a timeout of ~30s for images. It takes more than 30s for pictrs to process a JPEG image with the properties above (about ~45s). The image will be processed and can be accessed via its URL but Lemmy won’t return the URL because of the timeout. The timeout is actually hardcoded to 30s. I’m not sure why it’s hardcoded nor do I understand why it takes pictrs to process the image for so long (it only takes a second when I do magick convert image.jpg image.webp). I assume this is why videos don’t get processed either when I tested some time ago. Anyway, I’ll try to bring it up with the devs.

Mara

Size: 4726x6734

That might be the case. I think I can increase the limits that pictrs can accept.

edit: I increased the limits so very high resolution images (up to 8000px) can be uploaded (but are still downscaled to 4096px).

Now, what I can’t figure out is why pictrs isn’t processing the Haruhi image. Directly uploading the file taken from yande.re doesn’t work (it just silently fails). Converting the file to PNG (or any format) and uploading works:

I shall investigate more.

Do you have a copy of the image you were trying to upload? I could check the logs to see what’s wrong.

Image uploads seem fine on my end:

Except for some really large (8000x8000) images. I also upgraded to a pre-release of pictrs last night because it fixes this really annoying bug where images appear broken. But it might have introduced other bugs.

Some (maybe most) of these accounts are likely using custom domain linking instead of a server.

No, I don’t think it removes duplicate images.

Right now: 0.3GB per user per month. This number is probably much higher for other instances because I don’t keep copies of federated images anymore and I’ve been compressing images early on.

This doesn’t include bandwidth and backups.

I managed to bring down ani.social’s monthly costs to only ~14 USD when converted (which includes everything except backups). With 165 monthly users, that comes to around ~0.08 USD with a lot of accomodation.

Lemmy is efficient in resources except in storage (database and images) which grows infinitely. Unless you’re purging older posts and images, it keeps growing (very slowly).

I made it a small badge so people wouldn’t have to feel obligated to donate. But yes, the entire instance has been community funded already thanks to generous one-time and monthly donations!

Oops, I misunderstood how it works. You can add subdomains as your handle.

I thought subdomains were people using PDS. So I don’t know anyone running a PDS. I might try running one just to see what it’s like and actually learn the network.

But here’s an example of @user.domain.com: https://bsky.app/profile/tomoshika.voms.net

I don’t think they’re using a PDS though. In fact, it’s really hard to tell who’s using a PDS or not. I’m not sure what the effect of this is in community-building and I wonder if control over the network is really decentralized. This is really… confusing.

Anyway, the PDS is a lot more complicated than I thought: https://docs.bsky.app/docs/category/advanced-guides

The users with PDS use something like @user.domain.com. Users with just @domain.com are under Bluesky IIRC.

How was the concept first explained to you, or when did it click?

I don’t remember. We had classes throughout elementary school that taught us how to use computers. I learned how to read the news and use email from my mom. I learned how to play games like Silkroad and StarCraft from my dad. I don’t remember who taught me how to watch videos on YouTube. It kind of felt natural I guess.

Do you understand how insane it is to have the aggregate of all human knowledge — the only comparable thing once being a physical library or university — one search away? That it’s absolutely insane you can engage in a real-time conversation with someone on the opposite side of the world? That you can find niche communities in an instant?

No, not really. I never thougt about it that way until I was much older.

Were your parents super strict about internet usage? How quickly did you find workarounds?

Very strict. I could only use the internet if it was for school work during the week days. But during the weekends, I was free to use it however I wanted.

There were no workarounds until high school when I was free to play games and surf the web as much as I wanted any day of the week.

People have suggested making a portal/quiz for instance signups, but that adds to the barrier. There are also problems like how in-depth and inclusive it should be. It reminds me of Linux distro pickers that often suggest weird niche distros.

There are already big/default instances in the Fediverse though but there are people who actively discourage this. Maybe Mastodon just had a bad start and Bluesky learned from that. I wonder if Bluesky’s PDS will be like Fediverse instances though. Many Fediverse instances are built around shared interests but the PDS just looks like a glorified handle.

Personally, I think the Fediverse discourse should shift to designing social media with decentralization in mind rather than mimicking mainstream social media with a “decentralized twist”. I don’t think the Fediverse will ever be as big as Twitter, but it doesn’t have to be. It just needs to be sustainable enough to keep new conversations going.

Doesn’t answer the question but maybe it’s worth sharing anyway.

I’ve finally caught up to the 7th episode of Monogatari Off Season. I wish the series was more popular but I guess it’s hard to get into for some especially when there’s 100 non-linear episodes prior to Off Season. I realized the weekly rikka thread died so I’ll try to revive that starting later tonight.

I spent most of my free time playing Persona 3 Reload the past few weeks and I’ve been considering watching the anime movies.

Also, it’s typhoon season again so I hope everyone can stay safe.

I’m gonna wait for the platinum ultimate mega collector’s anthology edition at a 90% discount after 7 years.

Yeah, that seems to be a good point. Maybe kids around the age of Seita would understand it better.

I didn’t know people were opposed to showing Grave of the Fireflies to kids. I always thought it was one of the better war movies to show to kids because there isn’t much explicit violence and the main characters are children.

StarCraft. I never played Legacy of the Void campaign and I was told the ending was bad. Would be nice to have a StarCraft III though

Dink Smallwood is an old fantasy role playing game. It has a small community that makes mods for it. It’s really dumb but it’s free to play and very short if you have nothing better to do.

edit: Wow! I didn’t realize a lot of people here know this game. That’s actually cool.