Not sure about the whole picture, but credit to Keating for bringing in compulsory superannuation.
0.19.6 includes many fixes and new features... the biggest for me is "Parallel federation sending". This allows instance admins to send multiple federated activities in parrallel, rather than singly in series.
Not that its a real issue for other admins with activities from AZ, but I have set this to 2 for our outgoing activities.
Hopefully the lemmy.world admins will upgrade to 0.19.6 soon and do the same, this should allow AZ to catch up with activities from LW, and stay up to date. Over time as activities from LW have decreased we've "caught up" to within ~5 days of live. Doubling the rate that LW sends activities to AZ will help massively.
Ok... DB migration was an offline my migration, my bad. Took longer I expected... but we're back in action ๐ค
Made some time at work, don't tell my boss...
Think of lemmy instances as countries: when you visit a country/instance you're expected to abide by their local rules, whatever they may be. And when users from other countries/instances interact with Australia/aussie.zone they're expected to behave in line with our rules.
Not agreeing with the population of a country/instance doesn't mean you can't visit it. If/When you visit, you can't expect them to adhere to your rules at home... or to apply their own rules consistently.. just like the real world.
Defederation of an instance will only be done when:
Legal- the instance is generating content that may raise legal concerns for Aussie Zone. For example porn.
Technical- the instance is generating content that may cause performance/security issues for Aussie Zone. For example large volumes of automated traffic or malicious traffic.
Trolls- an instance whose users predominantly interact in bad faith with communities outside of their instance.
I don't believe lemmy.ml meets any of these, their "quirky" politics are largely self contained on their own communities from what I've seen. If they're crashing aussie.zone communities and posting outside of our rules, please report them.
To address some comments in this thread (paraphrasing):
we should defederate instances with bad admins or admins heavily moderating alternative views to their own
So far as their actions do not trigger any of the defederation criteria noted above, they can do as they see fit (even if it does make hypocritical dickheads).
no incentive to create alternative communities
If there is no incentive, then it can't be a large enough issue to enough users.
pro-authoritarian bias
Given how simple it is for a user to block an instance for themself, I'd rather allow our users had the option to decide this for themselves. Some prefer to engage with people from an alternate perspective, for those that don't they can block the instance.
TLDR
Not defederating lemmy.ml at this point in time, if their user behaviour outside of their instance changes in future my stance may change too.
The one time some old fashioned police brutality would be appropriate....
It was removed deliberately during the reddit exodus in order to direct new Lemmy users elsewhere. Rather than to overload lemmy.ml further.
Good bot.
I have no intention of every placing ads on aussie.zone. Should finances ever become an issue, I'll send up a ๐ฉ with a stickied post.
For now, finances are fine ๐
On the point of being unsustainable I disagree. Instances will need to find an equilibrium between cost/expense and retention of old content. The higher the revenue/cost tolerance, the older the content that can be retained. I expect most instances will end up purging non-local content after an amount of time, but retain local content as long as possible. Maybe I'm naive, but I have confidence that people smarter than me will come up with systems to do this. It may result in a usenet style setup where instances boast about their retention periods.
On your second point re: community contributions, I agree entirely. I've been very fortunate that there have been some generous donations from aussie.zone users, so I'm not worried about server costs at this point. Server costs will go up as data volumes increase, that is unavoidable. How the community decides to handle this in the future is the real question, based on what I've experienced so far I'm confident we'll be around for a long time to come.
Why turned the rain back on? After such a nice weekend... its back to winter โน
It's not your imagination, it is freaking cold this morning!
Even have a layer of ice on my car windscreen:
It's configurable... defaults to 1 thread. Given we're slowly catching up with LW during low activity parts of the day, I think 2 should be enough.