Happy new year and > 1000 members

First off, happy new year to everyone 😊

We also surpassed 1000 members on slrpnk.net near the end of last month. This is a nice milestone and another reason to celebrate.

While we had some server issues last month and also did not yet upgrade to the latest version of Lemmy (due to federation bugs with it), we can still welcome more users in 2024.

Of course the actually active number of users is quite a bit lower, as many of the Reddit migrants did not stick around. But I think we managed to get a healthy number of regular posters and our communities are also well subscribed to in the larger Fediverse.

I also managed to promote our instance a bit on the 37C3 congress in Hamburg a few days ago. Great Fediverse presence there and good solarpunk vibes as well.

New moderators / communities

We got two new communities in recent weeks that seem to be quite popular:

Technical updates

Besides the upcoming upgrade to Lemmy 0.19.x we thought a bit about other services to host. One idea is a collaborative text editor, for which the new Hedgedocs2 alpha is being tested on https://docs.slrpnk.net (BEWARE users and documents might be wiped without notice during the test period). We will update you when this service stabilizes sufficiently and also if we find a way to integrate accounts with the main Lemmy user database like we do for the XMPP & Movim service. Stay tuned 👍

Open discussion

As always, this is your thread. You’re welcome to comment about any meta stuff you don’t think is big enough for its own post. New communities, Lemmy or Movim issues, personal news, and questions for the community will be visible to the entire community here through the month of January.

  • Excrubulent@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Hey folks, I figured I’d ask here since it’s a reasonably like minded group - I’m looking for a peertube instance with the ability to upload, decent people with vaguely solarpunk/anarchist leanings, and which would be a good place for gaming, game development and technical stuff.

    I’ve tried searching through the peertube instances before now, but it’s so hard to get a feel for any given instance. If anyone knows a good place I’d love to hear about it.

      • Excrubulent@slrpnk.netEnglish
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        8 months ago

        Hey, thanks for the link, your reply slipped my mind and I just came back to find it. I like the instance, but some of the videos on my youtube channel would go over the upload limit in a single hit, so I wouldn’t be able to import them :/

          • Excrubulent@slrpnk.netEnglish
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            8 months ago

            Oh okay! Here you go then: https://www.youtube.com/@excrubulent

            The biggest video is this one: https://youtu.be/hAxVNIlA63A

            It’s nearly 40 mins at 1440p. My source file is almost 20GB, but I imagine the yt would be smaller. They do some fairly aggressive compression I think.

            I try to keep videos shorter than that in general, but my stuff is generally going to be a bit bigger than most, and I don’t want to ask you to expand the limits beyond what your instance can handle.

          • Excrubulent@slrpnk.netEnglish
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            5 months ago

            Hey, just letting you know I’ve finally sent you an account request, I hope the offer is still good! I’m sorry it’s taken me so long - life has been kind of crazy the last couple of months.