Honestly, like you said, I genuinely have no idea what the US will do; Currently things are being so shaken up that anything is plausible right now.

For outside the US, I don’t really know what reach other countries have. The UK’s Online Safety Act is the current one I’m watching for since that would require “highly effective age assurance” which… if the folks writing the law had been online like, ever, they’ll have realized is an utterly stupid statement unless they plan to enforce integrating ID Verification via a Credit Agency (Experian, Equifax) which does personal question-based verification (which imo is a huge breach of user privacy since while WE might not know who you are still, the credit agency does and where you signed up).

Yes, several US states along with other nations have been considering porn ban laws, along with the rather blatant anti-LGBTQ stance of the currently elected US party.

In the works! We’re planning to have some info very soon, though we’re still building out an improvement for the NAS to allow us to expand the storage capacity for long term, high size file storage specifically for Pixelfed!

Previously, we were just operating under myself as a sole proprietor. I hadn’t formalized things as I hadn’t expected the big growth, but we’re big enough to justify it to ensure the long-term security of all of our instances, as well as my own personal protection against the changing political climate.

Yeah, it’s been on my plate for a while, and honestly I really should have

Yeah, I have to admit, I spent a while trying to workshop how to make it sound less ominous and I’m really sorry I failed in that; Definitely something for me to work on in the future, and I apologize for it coming across rather legal and scary.

Thank you for doing your part, and thank you for the cute sticker!! :3

Looking like I had an off-by-one error, it’s actually fixed in the beta for 0.19.6; Will look at upgrading to that to fix the issue, just reviewing the changes to make sure there’s nothing else major there.

Looks really, really well done! :D

Aware and investigating!

Status update

Both instances are back online again! We’re currently transferring cached media from remote instances to the local storage, so avatars, emojis, and older attachments may currently appear as broken images.

As of Feb 7th at 10:45 PM Mountain Time, pawb.fun has re-generated all feeds, while furry.engineer is continuing with an estimated 25 minutes to go. We’re also re-generating the ElasticSearch indicies which power the full-text search system and expect that to continue through the night.

Yes, we’ll be maintaining:

• Multiple replicas across different disks (local)
• Hourly and daily snapshots (local)
• Regular off-site backups for disaster recovery

Didn’t even think to do that! Added to the sidebar :3

Here’s a link to the post I made with some pictures, some of the specs, and a look at the other hardware we’re got in the rack: https://furry.engineer/@crashdoom/110821928529948298 :3

We’ve got a few we’ll be posting once we’ve got the rest of the rack all tidied up again :3

It was actually remarkably simple to do, just following the guide on the docs page, but we were on 4.1.2 so here be dragons if you’re on 3.4.6. But, Glitch-soc does make you do both sets of migrations just in case, so it might be fine.

Yep, markdown is the formatting language used by Lemmy on the backend so all of these should work here too!

Maintenance will begin shortly on all Pawb.Social services. We anticipate the downtime being no longer than two hours, and will endeavor to bring the services online as soon as possible.

I’d say so, they do serve different purposes and it isn’t yet possible to follow Mastodon accounts from Lemmy.

Mastodon is to Twitter, as Lemmy is to Reddit. :3

Apologies for the delay, GitHub went down yesterday so I couldn’t pull the build tag. Should be fixed now :3