I think a lot of people browse ‘all’, so creating the community and then going to the main instances and subscribing to it from there is a good way to get it to show up in the Feeds.
Then post lots of content to the community to jumpstart it might work?
Bit clickbait. tldr: ffmpeg used it in their github actions, which pulls from gmp. They also use 100 builds to do simultaneous testing. Forks also run the actions, and it all pounds the gmp servers.
Ansible. You have to manually go find the communities you’d like to browse, but there are websites now that make it easier
Maybe look at figuring out how to host your own instance? I’ve got mine running on a 2 thread, 1gb ram server that’ll cost me less than 10 usd a month. So far it actually seems to run rather smoothly.
Then you get to choose who you federate with.
AWS on a free tier ec2
My personal instance is 2 vcpu 1gb ram and 30gb storage. It’s just me using it, but it’s running rather decently, so maybe if it’s just a few people you could get away with something like that
For my personally, I’m hosting an instance so that I can play with it, but also so that I can test new functionality, and help fix issues.
So I think if you are concerned about being a burden, then actively use your instance for the betterment of lemmy!
My recommendation is get an instance going, run it in that latest release candidate, if not the bleeding edge / build from source. Find and report issues. Since you are in DevOps, help expand the operational side / documentation.
I had a PR yesterday to fix nginx config, which you could probably have done as well? Help other people with their instances, document solutions. There are lots of places where you can apply your set of skills, rather than trying to learn Rust and just write code
And I get that, but I feel like there might be better options than an old boys club that requires endorsement to get in. For instance, maybe levels of trust? a newly federated instance gets rate limited or something, so that it can’t suddenly start spamming 1000s of posts or whatever
I’ve only recently setup my own lemmy instance, to test new stuff, fix a few things, whatever. Something like this would prevent me from federating with the content I want to see, and I’d have to go try and be buddies with a trusted instance admin to get endorsed?
I think this may be something we want to discuss more as a community, and see what better solutions might be out there
Hey, a little late, but maybe contact the Admin for lemm.ee they have horizontally scaled lemmy and it seems to be working. There is a config setting to disable scheduled tasks which should be disabled on all but one from what I remember, and then load balance across the rest