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cole

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I started lemdro.id. Pretty cool domain name, right?

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cole OP Mod , to Lemdroid in State of the lemdro.id (LW federation + infra upgrades + new frontend option)
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Very very interesting. I haven't seen a trend in increased response times for that region. This is Europe, right? That looks like you had a 1+ second API call to the backend there. I'll look at my stats and see if I can find a culprit. Things should've gotten faster lately, not slower!

cole OP Mod , to Lemdroid in State of the lemdro.id (LW federation + infra upgrades + new frontend option)
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Oh we aren't switching to it by default, I'm just providing options! We run a bunch of different front ends currently.

a.lemdro.id
l.lemdro.id
old.lemdro.id
next.lemdro.id
m.lemdro.id

...there might be more that I've missed

cole Mod , to Lemdroid in Update to 0.19.3?
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Update complete!

cole Mod , to Lemdroid in Update to 0.19.3?
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Next couple of days!

cole Mod , to Lemdroid in Welcome to Lemdroid! Start here for resources and fresh communities 🪴.
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we are not defederated, but the sorting is acting up. I'm on vacation right now but have been looking into it. We'll be upgrading to 0.19 once the .2 patch hits which I suspect will resolve this issue. For now, I've found that there are a few "stuck" posts and under those sorting is pulling in new stuff.

If you're browsing all, the workaround right now is to sort by "hot" instead of "active"

cole Mod , to Lemdroid in Welcome to Lemdroid! Start here for resources and fresh communities 🪴.
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Thanks! Yeah the costs are low because I've had the luxury to tune and architect lemdro.id properly before putting it out to the world for users. Our scaling methodology is really unique amongst lemmy, we are one of only two instances scaling horizontally (although we are doing so in dramatically different ways).

I figure the only way to guarantee long-time support and consistency is to keep hosting costs low so we aren't dependent on large amounts of financial goodwill from small amounts of people.

Glad you're liking lemdro.id, it has grown better than I even expected!

cole Mod , to Lemdroid in Welcome to Lemdroid! Start here for resources and fresh communities 🪴.
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Hey, thanks for asking. I run all of the backend - including paying for the costs associated. Lemdro.id has a pretty unique architecture that has taken a lot of work to perfect. As a result, we can scale down and up extremely easily as ijeff mentioned.

I will be setting up an OpenCollective eventually to accept donations, but I wanted to get the architecture stable and lemdro.id fast before I allowed people to contribute towards it. Just for your information, current hosting costs are looking to be around ~$35/mo which I am quite alright with funding on my own until I get that setup. Financially backing lemdro.id, once launched, will allow me to take advantage of the scaling architecture I've built to deploy servers to different regions outside of the US to keep response times low globally, too.

The idea was to make a big "state of the lemdro.id" post soon-ish that details costs, architecture, and importantly transparency. Our admin and moderation teams are fully transparent to the public via our Matrix setup, and the server architecture is slowly being integrated with GitHub. The idea is to allow the community to make contributions to improving the architecture of the instance they use by submitting PRs which then get deployed to a staging environment once reviewed and eventually pulled into production as well.

TL;DR: Yes, we will accept donations via OpenCollective which will allow us to expand lemdro.id globally to offer lower access times in other continents. This will become available once some personal goals I have set to increase lemdro.id transparency and open-source-ness are met.

If you'd like, I can ping you once I've got it setup, but you can expect to see a post in the !lemdroid in the next couple of weeks regarding this anyways!

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