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Exactly the title. I was considering setting up a PieFed server since that seems to be all the rage, and I thought I'd ask if y'all would have any interest in that.

It would be run with exactly the same polices as kbin.earth is run: lite defederation, be respectful, no spam, and no porn.

To add some info, PieFed doesn't have microblog capabilities yet, but it does have quite a lot of features that Mbin does not have, such as Feeds (combined community views), and the moderation/administration tools seem to be off the scale (in a good way).

I will admit, PieFed's API is nowhere near as mature as Mbin's, and definitely not Lemmy's, because that's just not what the PieFed developers are focusing on. Interstellar does provide PieFed support though.

Over the past week, I've seen the network traffic more than double from the usual amount, which has caused major noticeable slowdowns here. The total network bandwidth has gone from ~25GB on May 10th to ~58GB today.

I'm currently investigating the cause of the spike, but have not found anything yet. I can only assume it's from some form of DDOS attack.

In the meantime, I have temporarily doubled our server resources to account for the increased strain, which will hopefully reduce the number of slowdowns everybody's encountering. I'm hoping that sometime in the next few days, I will be able to figure out the root cause of the issue so we can get things back to normal.

Thank you for your patience.

Hello, thanks so much for this instance. Twice from two different instances now, I can see and reply to posts, then not see other comments or my own replies in the thread shown to me unless someone directly replies to me, or I visit the original URL.

lemm.ee and Lemmy.ca

Thank you all for your patience, and sorry for the huge downtime. I think it ended up being down about 40 minutes or so.

Luckily, I was able to get kbin.earth migrated over to the new Mbin Docker setup! This new setup means the Docker is now officially supported by Mbin, whereas it wasn't really recommended before.

And this new Docker setup was actually made in-house by ... me! I guess I'm officially an Mbin contributor now :)

Anyway, the other big thing I accomplished was upgrading the Postgres major version from 13 to 17 (the latest), which is quite a big jump! Actually, this database upgrade was really what took so long; the migration could have been done in ~5 minutes otherwise.

As always, let me know if you notice any peculiarities or issues caused by this migration.

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JK, but happy April 1st to everybody!

I had a pm suggesting that 2010s Music,

"would do better if it actually had the word "music" in the /c name, i.e. !2010smusic"

https://kbin.earth/m/2010s

Is there a possibility to change it or do I have to delete and create a new magazine? TIA

I stuck it out on kbin.social for as long as it lasted, and just sort of swore off social media after it finally went under. Yet here I am...

So does anyone have the "let me explain, no there is too much, let me sum up" of the last 2 years? What sexy new features did mbin pick up while I was gone?

I noticed pages were taking a bit longer than expected to load, so I ended up upgrading to a new server. It already seems faster (and let's hope it stays that way too). As always, let me know if you notice any peculiarities that might have been caused by the upgrade.

It brings an extensive bookmarking system, signup request support, signup notifications, extended markdown rendering, custom notification settings to set magazines, users, threads and microblogs to default, loud or muted, setting a default sort for the front page and comment lists, a new image delete command for admins and documentation changes.

See this thread for a detailed review of the update: https://gehirneimer.de/m/mbinReleases/t/486586

As a reminder, if you'd like to help support the kbin.earth instance financially, there are a few donation links in the about page.

Also, for those who use Interstellar, expect an update sometime soon that will utilize some of these new features. Unfortunately, there is a bug in the Mbin API that will not let me add custom notification settings controls quite yet to Interstellar, but bookmarking in the app will be supported.

Over the past 2 days, kbin.earth has been returning server errors on occasion (due to various reasons), making kbin.earth inaccessible. I have been looking into it but haven't found the root cause of the issue yet. Please bear with me while I investigate.

If you'd like to follow along with the status, you can join the kbin.earth matrix room. Reporting whenever you notice an error/outage also helps.

Thanks

Recently, I've noticed federated threads/comments/votes were lagging behind, and it turns out kbin.earth was being spammed (hundreds in a minute, leading to a couple thousand queued messages after only half an hour) by a Lemmy server with the same exact activity pub message. After blocking the server (feddit.de), federation should now work correctly. If the admins of the server ever fix the issue, I'll be glad to unblock it.

Edit: turns out, this was probably actually a kbin issue, but at least it's fixed the issues temporarily.