I will be updating the instance to v18 at 20:00 22:00 UTC.
See https://programming.dev/post/181191 for the changes
edit: Lemmy.ml updated and seems to have gone down. We’re going to wait and see what the outage was caused by and then proceed from there.
edit 2: lemmy was down due to a ddos attack. We will upgrade at 22:00 UTC
edit 3: we had issues with the email setup getting overridden again. If you tried to sign up in the past 8 hours please try to just log in. If you can’t, please message me (discord, matrix, or mastodon)
I’m not sure if you intended to do this, but you’ve doxxed yourself in this image.
If this was deliberate, please ignore this comment.
Ha, yes I did that in the first post ever 😜 https://programming.dev/post/1
Question for sysadmins: if you were looking at those metrics, without any context about an upgrade to production, what would you first suspect had happened?
Before cross-check unique visitor or page count remained steady, I’d have guessed the site got yeet’ed of every search platform or red flagged and blacklisted. 🚩💣☠️
Looks like their back up and running using
UI: 0.18.0-rc.6 BE: 0.18.0.I apologize for the stability issues everyone.
People found an exploit and are using it to DDOS several lemmy instances.
https://lemmy.ml/comment/909960Relevant ticket for patch fix:
- 300 comment limit. #3306
Someone split off that issue into another issue with more details and yeah, it sounds bad.
I seem to be facing some issues after the 0.18 update. I’m unable to report comments on subs on lemmy.world, I made myself as a mod from my other account on lemmy.world, but I’m not seeing that reflect here. Are these known issues?
The report issue seems to have resolved itself now, but the moderator issue is still present. I created a bunch of communities on lemmy.world, and I want to see if I can move over here as my main instance. I thought I’d make myself mod on those communities. I did that for 4 communities, but I only see two of them in my profile as being moderator. However, if I open my programming.dev profile on lemmy.world, it shows that I’m moderating 4 communities. Does that make sense?
I didn’t know one could mod for communities on remote instances, that’s cool! I’ve also noticed some slow or loss of synchronization between instances, e.g where the vote count for a remote post when viewed locally never steady states with the vote count when viewed directly from the remote instance.
One other thing I noticed now, is that if I mark a message as read, it doesn’t disappear like it used to. It goes away if I refresh the page, but it used to disappear right away when I marked a comment as read.
That makes sense. Hope they find some alternative.
If you don’t mind me asking, how much does it cost to run all of the servers?
we’re at like $48 a month for the main server, we have a staging server at about $6 a month, the domain is quite expensive, $580 or something for the first year, $427 for the following years. Email is $35 a month, but we had a snafu with it so we had actually gone with a different provider and that was $20 for 3 months. We also have cloudflare and I expect I’ll need to set up CSAM protection eventually but that will be a bit of money too, so I’m working on getting a donation box set up first and then we’ll move on with that.
Thanks for letting me know. I plan to contribute to the source code, as well as running my own server just to play around with it and getting more familiar with Rust.
I agree with the donation box, I’ll donate when it’s ready.
FYI, others commenting on hosting Lemmy in an AskLemmy thread:
- Why do people host Lemmy instances and how do they pay for them?
- https://lemmy.ml/post/1579182








