Hello all! 👋

A few things to cover here.

First of all, I would like to thank all who donated for their generosity. I don’t know if I’ve said it before, but 100% of the donations are going directly to the hosting costs.

I believe I fixed the issues with federation (it was just a problem in my nginx configuration), so interoperability with mastodon should be working again. Sorry about that! I haven’t tested other software, such as friendica and kbin, but I’m hoping they should be working again too.

We’ve surpassed 2,000 users! 🎉 I love seeing the all engagement! Also, thank you for the reports as well, I would like to keep this instance safe & welcoming to all, and can’t do it without your help.

I’ve also noticed there’s a few servers that my e-mail server is not happy trying to send e-mails to. by default it’s set up to be fairly picky about the servers it connects to, and I’ve noticed that it’s refusing to deliver to some with self-signed or certs that don’t match the domain. I’ll be working on getting that resolved in the next few days too.

Last but not least, I’ve added @crb@lemmy.ca to help me out with some admin duties. Please give him a warm welcome! I plan on adding a third soon too.

As always, let me know if you have any questions, concerns, suggestions, or whatever.

  • smorks@lemmy.caOPMEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    i’ve seen this as well, i’m assuming it’s a problem with .ml/.world at this point, because other instances are working, and I’ve seen complaints on other instances that they can’t subscribe to .ml/.world as well. assuming it’s probably just a load problem, since they are the two biggest instances I believe.

    you can see the list of instances that are blocked here: https://lemmy.ca/instances

    AFAIK, there’s no easy way to check which instances have blocked us.

    • SteveDinn@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      I didn’t expect that there would be any way to tell if anyone had blocked us, just that you might have heard about it.

      Those instances both are very snappy when I go to them directly in a browser. I assume that Lemmy has some kind of queue processor in the background like Mastodon does though, correct? I guess there are numerous ways that can get bogged down.

      • SteveDinn@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        From looking around in those instances’ version of this group, their users are reporting similar problems. At least it’s not just us :)

        • smorks@lemmy.caOPMEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          yeah. i did some searching through the logs yesterday as well and didn’t find anything useful. hopefully it gets resolved at some point. i’ll also do a search through some of the lemmy rooms i’m in on matrix to see if anyone has any other ideas as well.

          and yes, lemmy does have a queue of sorts for federation stuff. it’s not as visible as it is on mastodon though.