Lodion 🇦🇺

The kiwi’s have spun something up over here

The largest table holds data that is only needed by Lemmy briefly. There is a scheduled job to clear it… Every 6 months. There are active discussions on how best to handle this.

On my instance I’ve set a cronjob to delete everything but the most recent 100k rows of that table every hour.

This got a genuine giggle out of me. I’ve saved it.

Come join us if you like, site is open for signups.

Yes, in your settings. It even warns you to not remove “Undetermined” as many posts will show as that.

Front page side bar usually shows rules. The others there is no simple way to find out in advance.
My point was that it DOES matter where you create your account, beyond just getting a name you like. So I expect many people will hop around from instance to instance until they find “home”.

Not a dumb question… but some other things to consider:

• moderation/rules
• political leaning/community feel
• geographic location… less important but can influence user experience

By default everyone federated with everyone. Some exceptions blacklist others, but still participate in the wider fediverse. Others whitelist specific others, effectively making their own island fediverse.

As for rules, you’d need to check each instance directly. That isn’t collated with an API query.

Doh! Started measuring just before I rebooted for an upgrade. Oh well.

Your instance will locally generate and save thumbnails for external links in posts.

I’ve stood up aussie.zone primarily for Australians, but open to anyone. Same as poVoq, its just me at this stage… but I’ve disabled community creation.

That works… hadn’t realised it was randomized with only two recommended.

Ideally the recommended instances section wouldn’t be static. It would put a different instance in prime position for each user that visits… a poor mans load balancing I guess.