UPDATE: @SDF@lemmy.sdf.org has responded

It is temporary as lemmy.world was cascading duplicates at us and the only way to keep the site up reliably was to temporarily drop them. We’re in the process of adding more hardware to increase RAM, CPU cores and disk space. Once that new hardware is in place we can try turning on the firehose. Until then, please patient.

ORIGINAL POST:

Starting sometime yesterday afternoon it looks like our instance started blocking lemmy.world: https://lemmy.sdf.org/instances

A screenshot of the page at https://lemmy.sdf.org/instances showing the lemmy.world instance on the blocklist

This is kind of a big deal, because 1/3rd of all active users originate there! A pie chart depicting the top instances by usershare. The lemmy.world instance is in the top spot with 1/3 of the total usershare

Was this decision intentional? If so, could we get some clarification about it? @SDF@lemmy.sdf.org

  • SDF@lemmy.sdf.orgMEnglish
    21·
    1 year ago

    Two things that would be great:

    • Have a tanoy/horn announce icon at the top like with Mastodon where status information can be posted.
    • Change the heart icon to link to a method that supports the local instance

    Attempts were made to create a thread for the almost daily upgrades we’re going through with BE and UI changes, but even with pinning it doesn’t have the visibility.

    We’re on site in about 1 hour to install a new RAID and once that is completed we’ll finish the transfer of pict-rs data.

    • entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      You’re all doing an amazing job!

      I became an ARPA member this past week and am happy to donate again to chip in for this hardware upgrade.

      Edit: donated at the $48 yearly level.

      • robotrono@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        Just donated to do my part to help keep the lights on. Thanks y’all for doing a great job, I am glad I found SDF.

    • mcornick@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      I have created a sub called MetaLemmy in hope that people will use it to discuss matters like these, so that the SDFpubnix sub will be more useful for announcements and such. If you want to discuss the meta-workings of lemmy.sdf.org, please go there (and if you are interested in moderating, please respond to the post there, as I do not want to be the mod of that sub long-term.) Thanks.