Hi all,

Thank you for joining me here! It’s great to see that we have a community that wants to grow in such a new and exciting manner.

As it is, I thought it would be a lot easier to do this by myself than it has been. So I’m asking for some help!

I have several things I need assistance with:

  • setting up and moderating a chat community, for those times when users are having issues with the website. I think it’s up to the community what software we use, but I would probably prefer Discord. Since this is all federation though I completely understand if others want to use something like Zulip or Matrix! So let’s just use what everyone wants. If you have an opinion please post below.
  • database stuff. I’m absolutely terrible at database stuff, and that is not an exaggeration. If anyone is willing to help it would be much appreciated. Currently I have a need to set up pgbouncer, or we should modify the lemmy source to allow for setting up a bouncer. I also want to set up read replicas so that we can distribute the load a bit more evenly. As it currently is, the site was simply set up with the lemmy-ansible script, so everything is running on a single box 😬. If you know Rust and want to help modify the Lemmy source code for this, or you are a Database Admin and want to help, I’d very much appreciate it.
  • instance admins. I cannot be online constantly and I do have a day job. I’m getting messages and applications to join the instance along with needing to set up new communities, create and update rules, moderate, etc. I cannot handle this all alone.
  • I also need some general help.
    • email admin
    • migration of server to larger VPS (will have to bring the entire site down for this, unless someone wants to help set up a load balancer, a brand new box, and have some sort of migration strategy.)

If you want to help out on the server side of things I will want to know your real life persona, but for instance admins, chat mods, etc. I would just like to see some sort of comment history from you elsewhere.

And thank you once again, for helping create an inclusive community.

  • jmk1ng@programming.devEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Agreed. As Lemmy instances start getting slammed, there will be a community of instance hosters there developing best practices and so on. Definitely lean on the community there

    Also I’d seriously advise against forking the code. You’ll be signing up for a world of hurt keeping your customizations up. Contributing to the core project is a better investment if possible.

    Finally, thanks OP for standing up this instance! Costs are likely to keep growing, so I hope there’s a way we can contribute financially as well