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Hello there friendly users!

Update 3:50pm CEST
The container has been moved, most work on the new host has been completed. There are some permanent data errors on the original storage pool, but it does not like it affected this linux container. Please give DNS and federation a moment.

Some (but only a few) of you have experienced an outage today around 5-8am CEST. This – as far as my current findings go – happened due to a filesystem panic. So far, i only experienced such a thing on virtual servers with a certain amount of load.

Even tho relatively speaking, i didn't feel like there was much to worry about with the current setup and its utilization, i feel like when looking at a potential second wave from Reddit, this instance should be prepared – so i just did a thing:

What we are moving to

We will be moving from a Netcup RS 4000 G9.5 KVM with 32 GB memory and 10 dedicated EPYC cores, (that was meant for various smaller tchncs services such as XMPP, Email, Clouds, Websites and stuff and lots of headroom), to a Hetzner serverauction baremetal thing with an Intel Core i7-7700, 2x SSD M.2 NVMe 512 GB, 64 GB DDR4 Mem, 1 Gbit Networking in Finland.

I plan to migrate today as soon as the thing is ready and configured. There will be a downtime of up to 1 hour.

Lemmy will share its seat on the machine with the tiny Calckey instance that was deployed around the same time.

Increased monthly cost: around 40 EUR

Note on the thing Meta is developing with ActivityPub federation support:
I am not a friend of Meta and am happy to keep it out of my life an off of my servers. However there are lots of rumors and barely any confirmed informations around the project. I will act accordingly once more is known. I also won't make any exceptions in terms of enforcing our rules. However i won't participate in signature lists for pre-blocking everything Meta and run around in circles, screaming in panic.

Since it took me a second as well, i thought, i'd better share this with you:

If you want to see a bigger version of an image, you don't need to open the thread (in fact it wouldn't even help).

Just click on the small tile with the image and a bigger version will appear.

...because I find that it can be confusing... if you search for your Lemmy browsertab, I assume, you'll look for that mouse, not for the tchncs logo. 🐭

Feel free to add your opinion on this. (if you still see the tchncs logo in the navbar, refresh the page)

Oh noes, that short community list 😱 – but hey, some have been shown to the instance already! 🎊
An instance needs to learn the network either organically from interactions or by getting pointed to nice places of the fediverse.

Finding a community

You might have seen the instancelist already. You can view their communities and subscribe to them from tchncs. Also check out browse.feddit.de for finding all teh nice communities across instances.

Syntax

The syntax for a community is !community.
The syntax for a remote community is [!community@server.xyz](/c/community@server.xyz)
The searchbox also understands full links like https://lemmy.ml/c/unixporn

Show this server a community:

Note: make sure you are searching the fediverse. Do not filter for local, which might be your default!

1. Go to the search and look up a remote community that you either found on the network or simply guessed.
2. The server will now try to subscribe to it in the background
3. After a while the ui will refresh and show the community as a search result. This might take a few seconds. (otherwise see below).
4. If you want to make sure, just search again after a few seconds or check the community-list and you should find what you were looking for.

If it's stuck at pending

There currently are many discussions around this. Right not it seems like it still works, even tho it says pending.

About the vote

Since a little while, you can vote for and suggest, what could be next for tchncs.de – use this thread to discuss suggestions or just use the Nextcloud poll in the link. :)
Most services will be tried without full commitment within the first while, because it is often unclear how well they scale, can be moderated or will be used. However i am not good at not continuing things... need to improve on that front.

What you can do here

Find the missing link, but also discuss certain software before voting or maybe for giving your vote (or submission) more weight – or just use it as a forum to find cool stuff.

What we are testing now

• Calckey (intended for production)
• Lemmy (intended for production)
• Vikunja
• OpenTalk (now in production)
• Bookwyrm (now in production)

Considered for testing someday soon

• Mobilizon (currently lower prio)

Feel welcome to use this post for testing purposes, feedback on the instance and to say hi!

Since the playground model wasn't really that good (it prevents users from making things their home), I've decided not to announce this instance to be in playground/testing mode. Instead, i'll simply try to make it work and hope that it won't become an administrative nightmare.

However – things are looking quite good so far.

In the background i am currently trying to determine whether the current location is powerful enough midterm, if not, there will be a quick and quiet maintenance to move the thing to a more fitting place (looking at the potential upcoming wave from Reddit). Also there are some smaller things in the background still being worked on, but they shouldn't affect users.

tl;dr have fun, if everything goes well, this will be a permanent place for people to enjoy – i hope. 🚀

Also check out https://join-lemmy.org/apps for apps and stuff.