I’m an admittedly new member to the fediverse and working my way though, so please let me know if this is posted in the wrong place.

I’m looking for ways to help communities like this thrive. It seems there’s been a rocky few days for some bigger Lemmy hosts.

To keep it general, outside of the https://github.com/LemmyNet/ conversations is there another place I should be looking? Hoping to extend my knowledge on scaling out cheap cloud infra.

  • Wintermute
    3•1 year ago

    For Lemmy in particular I would suggest joining the Matrix chat. There’s quite a lot of activity related to working out and reporting issues that happens there.

  • mo_ztt ✅
    2•1 year ago

    I’m working on a project to host bits of Lemmy on peer cache devices run by the community – if you’re interested to take a look or help test/code, I should have code for some of the caching bits within a few days.

    • Transient Punk
      2•1 year ago

      This is definitely something I want to follow too!

    • @[email protected]OP
      1•1 year ago

      I’d love to! I’ll Follow this thread.

      One thing I’ve noticed, which may be fairly obviously, but static assets, like images appear to be store on filesystem storage. I think the ability or option to push that content to object storage would help offload a lot of disk operations. Not to mention allow use of any CDN which can off load some cost.

      • mo_ztt ✅
        2•1 year ago

        Yah, actually images is the very first thing I’m trying to move out to my little prototype network. I’m not sure what the actual load is that serving images places on the instance, but moving them off is (1) potentially useful I think, since images are often large (2) easy to work on as a starting point, since they tend to be large and static and in Lemmy they’re already separated out to a separate app.

        I’ll drop you a line once I have something 👍