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  • eviltoast adminMAtoeviltoast.org supportdisconnects?
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    16 days ago

    I’ll look into Jerboa. I tried Voyager on my phone, and didn’t see a way to change my home instance from lem.ee to eviltoast. I should probably go read the directions.

    In case you haven’t figured it out yet, Voyager supports multiple accounts so I think all you need to do is click the middle button on the bottom row (probably says lem.ee if that’s’ the current home instance. Mine says eviltoast.org). That should pop up the accounts dialog where you can click edit and add another. At least on Android, now sure about ios.


  • eviltoast adminOPMAtoeviltoast.orgDo you want more eviltoast?
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    18 days ago

    Thanks! I’ve settled on the new hardware, but it’ll be a few weeks before it gets set up and I can actually migrate to it.

    I should write about how everything is hosted now, maybe I will once I get the new stuff set up. Other than hardware, I’m planning on migrating away from hashicorp nomad to kubernetes along with a more normal stack.

    Expect me to dump more in the selfhosting and cats communities. I’ve got a hell of a homelab going, and I need to brag.

    Combining some of the best hobbies (cats and homelabbing) :).

    You’re right about duplicated efforts. One thing I’d like to see improved on lemmy is something like federated/decentralized communities. There are multiple selfhosted communities for example, it’d be nice if they could all be combined into one place so that you don’t have to look for all of them when subscribing.



  • eviltoast adminOPMAtoeviltoast.orgEviltoast upgraded to Lemmy 0.19.11
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    19 days ago

    Thanks for letting me know!

    I have run into the session issue. It seems worse than before, but I haven’t figured out what exactly is causing it. I use Traefik as the main reverse proxy and I suspect it’s something different there vs the normal nginx config lemmy recommends.

    I restarted things for now, but I have a couple things to try tomorrow. Thanks for the timestamp btw, I was able to find an issue around that time and my monitoring triggered briefly around the same time too.

    Until I migrate to new hardware (and away from the current setup that uses traefik), I decided to enable a CDN temporarily (bunny.net). It’ll retry requests transparently, so it won’t fix the issue but should make it less noticeable. Let me know if you notice either way.






  • eviltoast adminMAtoeviltoast.org supportdisconnects?
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    27 days ago

    Thanks for the kind words!

    I don’t see any mention of how you fund this other than it shares space with something else you host. It wouldn’t kill me to kick out $20 every now and then to help out. Particularly if it helps pay for bandwidth.

    Everything’s funded out of pocket by me currently, but it’s not in risk of going away. I am planning on migrating to newer hardware in the near future though, and considering accepting donations since it will be more expensive to run.

    ai bots

    I’ve blocked the “abusive” ones for the most part, but do probably need to come up with something better. I saw some creative methods recently too that could be fun. Some are harder to block the normal ways because they are coming from residential IPs and using fake user agents.



  • eviltoast adminMAtoeviltoast.org supportdisconnects?
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    1 month ago

    Hey @dbtng@eviltoast.org , thanks for the report.

    There has been a lot more traffic than normally lately, mostly due to ai bot scraping/crawling. I think the “too many requests” errors you saw are probably from that. Hitting an overall rate limit in the webserver vs an individual limit.

    Looking at the logs, there have also been more errors lately, but it’s hard to tell how many are real errors. For example, a “couldnt_find_post” error can show up as a 500 internal server error instead of a 404. I’ll dig into it some more

    I normally use one of the apps (Jerboa or Voyager) and haven’t noticed any issues, but they might be retrying requests transparently.






  • eviltoast adminOPMAtoeviltoast.orgJoining now requires a manual approval
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    10 months ago

    I could be totally wrong but my take on it is that they’re just wanting the community to handle it so they can work on other parts of lemmy. They at least don’t seem like they’re against better mod tools.

    day-to-day mod and admin actions on this instance are pretty low. Bigger instances like LW probably would have more reason to complain :D


  • eviltoast adminOPMAtoeviltoast.orgJoining now requires a manual approval
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    10 months ago

    IMO I don’t think it is something the lemmy devs are focused on, but there is a growing community creating helpful tools around moderation/federation/maintenance. There were some core features added like mods being able to see downvotes to detect mass downvoting, and open issues for things like an invite system.

    LemmyAutomod is an example of a community effort. I saw some other similar bots posted too.