Need moderators

Hello all!

I've created several communities here on discuss.online to help seed the content for growth.

I'm looking for mods to help water them! Gardening analogies are starting to grow on me.

Please DM me if you are interested.

Lemmy isn't known to have the best moderation tools. I have a somewhat useful way to moderate through Grafana. I'll provide dashboards and the ability to create alerts for you.

Community list

Here is the list of communities I'm looking for moderators for:

• FlipperZero (Unofficial)
• Old People Internet
• To The Fediverse
• Buy it for life
• Apple
• BattleBit Remastered
• Neurodivergent
• ~~Photography~~
• ~~Linus Tech Tips (Unofficial)~~

Please reach out even if you are slightly interested.

For communities already with mods more can be added. Please, reach out to the listed mod to apply.

Create your own!

I have community creation open. Feel free to create and moderate a different community.

Did you know:

It's possible to create blogs on Lemmy.

1. Create a new community.
2. Check "Only moderators can post to this community."

This will allow you to create your blog posts while allowing others to comment.

Thanks, Jason

This is happening from 8:45 pm ET until 9:30 pm ET.

For status updates go to https://status.discuss.online/.

The update will take from 5 minutes to 1 hour.

You may have intermittent access to the site and API.

There has been a release of Lemmy version 0.18.

There is a very long list of changes for the back end and front end. You can see them here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/releases

I do plan to upgrade at some point. However, I'm considering waiting until Lemmy 0.18.1. In 0.18 they removed captcha support. This has been a very useful tool to keep bots from taking over the instance. If I upgraded to 0.18 now I'd have to turn on registration applications. I fear that the registration application would be too much friction to gain users.

Please, let me know what you think of this change. An announcement will be made once an upgrade is to take place.

You can view instance status and maintenance schedules here: https://status.discuss.online/.

On June 19, 2023, I setup scaling for the environment. My experience doing this is with AWS; however, I host this service with DigitalOcean. The good news is I now understand how DigitalOcean Load Balancers work. The bad news is I had intermittent outages throughout the day.

Sorry, I'll do better.

• jgrim

I noticed some random slowness when using the web client. It looks like the web client's backend is significantly CPU hungry. I decided to segregate the front-end and back-end clients. I can already tell a significant difference.

Here is an update from the core developers of Limmy. It addresses a lot of open questions and concerns by the community. It's a great read.

The good news is there is a beta site running a newer version of the Lemmy front-end at beta.discuss.online.

The bad news is I took the site down for like one hour trying to work out the nginx configuration. Whoops.

Sorry for the outage!

Discuss.online is ready to scale. I have separated services into dedicated nodes.

I had set up object storage for image uploads. Dedicated database cluster. This all costs more but helps prevent a significant outage if there is sudden growth.

Other communities had to react to a large influx. I thought I'd get ahead of it to keep you all happy!

Be sure to share with your friends! We're ready for them here at discuss.online!

A matrix instance has been setup for the domain discuss.online. This allows the user of usernames like @jgrim:discuss.online.

The consideration is to offer a matrix username and server access for each member of discuss.online.

This service is still in beta and heavily manual. If you wish to access the discuss.online matrix instance, please ping me directly. The automation of signing up will come soon; however, no release date has been set yet.

Hello,

Currently, community creation is open. Until there is an unreasonable amount of local communities, it will remain open to help grow the instance.

Please, share, create, & discuss!

Hello and welcome,

This is the first post of discussion.online. I'm hoping it's one of many.

I discovered the power & freedom of federated content while using Matrix & Mastodon. I have been sparingly working on a federated social site for a few years. Starting this community would be a great way to start something and learn.

Reddit has lost its appeal for me. I no longer want to doom scroll nonsense and repeated content. I hope the communities within The fediverse fill the gap and return the internet to the people.

There is a shift. I'm part of it. Please join me.

-Jason