So, after being up and running for a week now I have implemented a few changes.

First change is a nice one: I set up an email server, so you can reset a password should you ever forget it. If you'd like to try for yourself, just fill in your email click the 'forgot password' link on the sign-in page! (Don't worry, nothing will actually be reset until you click the link in the email).

Second change has to do with the sign-up process. My assumption that people would use this instance in good faith was incorrect; today I observed a sudden increase in te amount of 'users' that had signed up. These users were created by a bot, and I'll be working to remove them again in the near future. I have enabled the captcha challenge to counter these automated sign-ups, and so far this appears to be working. I'd rather not enable mandatory email verification, so I hope that won't be necessary.

Finally, I made some under-the-hood changes to the reverse proxy to improve performance.

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Found a picture from when I replaced my rear sprocket a few months ago. As you can (hopefully) see, the old sprocket has lost a lot of material compared to the new one. The teeth aren't even symmetrical anymore! As you can guess, there was a lot of chain noise lol.

Just kidding, my apartment is much too small for a proper homelab... maybe someday...

In the meantime, please show off what you're working with!

This is still a young instance, so there might be a snafu here and there. If you have any issues with this instance, please report them here. Do you have an idea to make this place better? Please share as well!

Hi there!

So, you decided to put some of your eggs in a different basket, started looking beyond Reddit and joined a Lemmy instance. Great! Thank you for choosing Rammy, by the way. But.. Now what?

Instances

You can think of an instance as the server on which your stuff is hosted. Other instances host other people's stuff. Thanks to federation, however, it doesn't really matter what instance you are on. You can view and interact with content on any other instance, as long as they are federated. This instance is federated with most others at this point.

Communities

You're probably familiar with Reddit's Subreddits. Lemmy has a similar construct, called Communities. These communities reside on an instance. That doesn't mean you can't view, subscribe to and contribute to communities on other instances, though! Once again trough the power of Federation, you can search for any community on federated servers.

As of right now communities can be hard to find, but the good folks ove

I host a small Lemmy instance (just me at the moment), and on the Admin page i've noticed these rate limit settings. They don't seem to be documented and their meaning is a bit unclear to me. For example, what is the difference between 'Message Rate Limit' and 'Per Second'? And are these values per user or for the entire instance?

If anyone could explain these rate limit values (or point me to the relevant documentation) I would greatly appreciate it!

I set up this instance in the hopes of taking the load off of the big guys. It's still a bit under construction (and empty) here, but if you choose to register everything seems to work well enough. And of course, content on other instances is available to you through the power of _federation.

Should you need any help whatsoever, feel free to shoot me a message!