Thank you, beautifully said! When federation between Lemmy instances was finally implemented and people started forming their own instances, I decided to take part in that despite not having extensive system administration experience. I also wanted to experiment. Now I have thought that my intention for Sopuli is to be an alternative to the shitty corporate social media platforms you described – and looks like this has taken off very well in the last few years. Good to hear that I am doing something inspiring and beneficial.

That’s our defence minister Antti Häkkänen, who is here participating remotely in a Nato-Ukraine council meeting with other defence ministers.

Not a minor bug, I just decided to put random things as taglines for the instance, such as that one quote from some Lemmygrad user. Just for fun.

As the instance’s owner and admin, there was a server migration that lasted for a day and nearly 8 hours. And yes, !meta@sopuli.xyz and my Mastodon are good places to check out regarding Sopuli’s status.

I can’t pin my own replies, but I can mark them with “speaking as an admin”.

This makes a good feature request to make at Lemmy’s GitHub: add a feature for pinning messages in a thread.

There’s a Patreon page?

Sopuli’s registrar is Hostinger, I don’t think there is a threat of a similar problem.

I rebooted the instance once around 20:30, only for it to go down somewhere in 21:30. Then I went to sleep and around 7:00 the instance was up again. Weird, don’t know what caused it.

And some few weeks ago a memo leaked where Satya Nadella assured that “whatever business decision Microsoft considers, security always comes first”.

Sex workers are having a bad time these days.

If life gives you lemons, have a lemon party.

If Microsoft stuck with what it already does, it would be better. They already have cloud streaming technology which makes playing games on their ecosystem possible on any screen. Having a separate handheld console would complicate things. I just don’t see the appeal.

“Yeah but this is totes different thing!!!?!?!”

Yes I had. DuckDuckGo was crippled as Bing was down today.

Windows has gone cuckoo-crazy and off the rails ever since 11 came out, and even more when Microsoft decided to cash in on AI.

The folks behind The Great Barrington Declaration who believed in herd immunity for COVID now get to reap what they sow.

“Medical freedom”, the rallying cry for all kinds of grifters spreading disinformation and wanting to roll back the progress made in public health.

Oi kiitos paljon! Nyt voinkin viettää vappua hyvällä omallatunnolla.

Tietokantaa ei ole laitettu erilliselle palvelimelle vaan Sopuli on yhdellä Hetznerin VPS:llä. Tuo ongelma hitauden ja federaation viiveen kanssa johtuu juuri blogissa kuvatuista asioista. Myöskin Kbin-instansseilla on kummallinen tapa luoda useita federaatioaktiviteetteja, jotka sitten välittyvät massoittain Lemmy-instansseille, mistä syntyy viivettä. Kbinin kehittäjää ei ole saatu kiinni asian tiimoilta, joten Kbin.social ja muutamat muut Kbin-instanssit ovat nyt estettyjä. Kokeilin myös laittaa Lemmy-palvelinprosessin käyttämään vain yhtä suoritinydintä, ja se paransi suorituskykyä.