Default community for midwest.social. Post questions about the instance or questions you want to ask other users here.
Thanks for running this instance. It makes the switch to Lemmy much easier with all the local communities. I already feel more at hone here than I have for a while on reddit.
99.9999% uptime is for overrated. We can put on some bug spray and step outside (or a coat for the glorious time of the year mosquitoes don't try to carry me away) if the server goes down.
Maybe we can have a scheduled downtime every day for all of us to go outside at the same time.π
Yeah but sometimes you just came inside and want to browse π definitely understand where he's coming from but it'd be nice to not have to switch to another account all the time
Hopefully next week's release fixes it completely.
Thank you for hosting this! Itβs a great little place and itβs nice that it isnβt a super big site.
I work IT for a fairly large enterprise. Iβm willing to help out however I can. Iβve not run Lemmy, but I have experience with Python, containers, Kubernetes, Java, PHP, and basic database administration with a strong background in systems monitoring as well, so even if you just an extra site monitoring probe, just hit me up.
Awesome! Feel free to join us in matrix. That's probably where I'll reach out for help first.
+1 for /u/MrFrobozz. They know their stuff.
Hi, I've really been enjoying my time here so far. I think if people keep posting and interacting this could become my next doom scroll client.
If you need some help running the instance at any point let me know. I'm a network engineer/sysadmin/VM wrangler in Indiana so hopefully I could be of some help!
As a newbie here, I don't expect the server to run perfectly all the time, and growing pains are normal. Take your time! I'm glad to have a little place to hangout in the meanwhile.
The growing pains donβt bother me too much, especially when the alternative is going back and accepting how bad reddit will progressively get as advertisers take over.
Thereβre so many fellow tech workers here too lol
Cheers! Cincinnati checking in! Thank you for building this space for us to play in!
I went to college at UC, still get skyline from time to time.
Thanks for hosting the server. Scaling while being slammed is tough! I've noticed a few times the server is too loaded and try to come back later. With reddit down you're essentially feeling 'the slashdot effect' (is that still a thing? lol). I'll keep coming back and checking =)
I've done infra/ops for years, and been in your situation more than once. Take your time, you'll get it all sorted out. John Allspaw wrote a good book about this subject, "The Art of Capacity Planning: Scaling Web Resources". There is a new edition out that I haven't read, but all of the lessons learned in that book are still applicable today. The biggest thing that helped me was learning haproxy and figuring out how to spread out the load, minimize response times, as well as queue time.
So to a lay person, are the speed/responsiveness issues just because so many people are using all the servers, or is it this instance, or the Lemmy software (or a bit of all 3)? I tried posting a simple link too [email protected] and it just spun the whole time.
I would guess having not seen any logs or anything that the server might need more resources or is hitting some limit that hasn't come up before. Like max open files or some sort of ram limit. I haven't looked into running a lemmy instance yet but usually you can mess with the config and squeeze a little more life out of stuff. But it could be that the server itself needs to be more powerful.
I've had a lot of problems getting posts to load that are on other large instances. The whole ecosystem is probably just slammed right now. Reddit dying made people go "well whats a thing like reddit I could use instead" and we're all just showing up load testing the small instances people set up for a small group of friends.
I like to think all of our Midwest internet traffic is meeting at the server and saying "Ope, sorry, after you...No I insist, after you."
Thank you for creating this place for us. This is my first dive into the fediverse, honestly I'm still only kinda sure what I'm doing and how many of this works.
As someone who migrated to reddit from digg during the V4 disaster, and then spent entirely to much time on reddit, I'm excited at the prospect of being somewhere so decentralized that stupid corporate games can't ruin everything.
Happy to be here. Glad there's a midwest specific instance.
A fellow pro-gun leftist? (Milhouse hug dot gif)
There are ~~dozens~~ actually whole lot of us!
Under no pretext my friend.
I am a Linux sysadmin (Redhat and fedora mostly) at a local university for over 20 years. I would be happy to help in any sysadmin tasks.
I thought about setting up my own Lemmy instance. I've already set up my own matrix server and mastodon (gotosocial) server for only me, and I thought I'd give someone else's lemmy instance a shot instead of building my own this time.
I'm running Ubuntu at the moment but feel free to join us in the Matrix chat linked in the sidebar!
Thank you for setting this up and keeping it running. Did you have an "Oh shit" moment when you saw Redditors start suggesting Lemmy as an alternative during the API fiasco?
I'm just a simple technical writer with no SysAdmin experience, but good look on the search for help.
I had stopped using reddit too much so I didn't know they were talking about lemmy until I started getting a steady stream of applications.
Another technical writer? In the Midwest? I'm not alone!
Columbus here! Went to school at UC and also work in the tech space. Wish I knew about the Midwest instance before I signed up for lemmy.world.
Found a Columbus community here on Lemmy world, not sure if there are any others: https://lemmy.world/c/columbus
Also if anyone has any leads on web dev jobs, reach out! Not quite enjoying my current job.
Thanks for hosting us!
I'm a software developer in the Chicago suburbs with an interest in DevOps, and a fair amount of experience with Linux, kubernetes, aws, and terraform. If that's anything like your stack, I'm happy to help if I can.
Similar interests too, minus lifting plus fountain pens and woodworking. Ex-cat owner, sadly; both died of old age last year and my wife prefers we don't get another until the kids are older.
I'm glad this space exists! As a fellow Clevelander, hope you are enjoying the rain.
thank you for setting this up. Also, first fediverse post!
Im gonna miss reddit, but i really miss the (relative) locality of the old BBS days, and later, regional blog networks.
The internet feels less like a utility lately and i didnt realize how much i missed that
i really miss the (relative) locality of the old BBS days
I was recalling BBS days with @TurtleTourParty's "99.9999% uptime is overrated" remark. We really have become spoiled in little better than a quarter century. The typical BBS had one phone line. Once you got past a busy signal, you had to economize your time online to give other users a chance. You'd install an offline reader to download new mail, disconnect, reply at leisure, and upload when you got back in.
Aside from the local quality (enforced by a forgotten fact-of-life called "long distance charges," defined as "not far outside city limits"), you never posted anything to discover someone else had replied simultaneously, because you were preventing them from doing so. I have fond memories of message boards that were games designed around this fact.
Have not tried it yet, but this promises to recapture some feel of the "good ol' days." I wish it included a sound effect of that satisfying "connected" modem squawk when you fired it up.
Hey there, neighbor. I'm on the I-70 corridor. I like that we have so many local people here.
Glad to be here!
Hey I work in tech and live in chicago. I'd be happy to help out in any way I can. I keep linux boxen alive for a living.
I live in Chicago and break linux boxes as a hobby!
me too
I'm a freelance web developer. I'd be happy to pitch in with DevOps/SysAdmin stuff as needed.
This place rocks
Howdy!
Thanks for setting up this small (but obviously growing) part of the Fediverse!
I donβt know why but fediverse sounds lame to me. At first I was thinking fedoraverse.
Alright. Itβs been decided. Henceforth, weβll all call it the fedoraverse!
Heyo, Northwest Ohio, checking in. Glad to be here.
What sort of skills you looking for? Do you pay in those aforementioned penis pills? ...asking for a friend