It was created from scratch by SDF user laemeur who is a graphic artist/illustrator. We made stickers based off this design that are available in the https://sdf.org/?store

Welcome to … 0.18.2

Welcome to … UI: 0.18.2-rc.1 BE: 0.18.1-10-g9c2490d4f

Welcome to … UI: 0.18.1-rc.11 BE: 0.18.1-rc.10-1-g2a088cf02

Here is where we’re at now.

• increased cores and memory, hopefully we never touch swap again
• dedicated server for pict-rs with its own RAID
• dedicated server for lemmy, postgresql with its own RAID
• lemmy-ui and nginx run on both to handle ui requests

Thank you for everyone who stuck around and helped out, it is appreciated. We’re working on additional suggested tweaks from the Lemmy community and hope to let lemmy.world try to DoS us again soon. Hopefully we’ll do much better this time.

live updates in progress. Moved to SSDs, added more cores and 128GB and 64GB ram.

You’re absolutely welcome to do that as it is your decision and you have many choices. We hope to build a community of folks that would like to help the fediverse grow and support smaller instances. Similar growing pains were seen during the twitter exodous last September.

It is temporary as lemmy.world was cascading duplicates at us and the only way to keep the site up reliably was to temporarily drop them. We’re in the process of adding more hardware to increase RAM, CPU cores and disk space. Once that new hardware is in place we can try turning on the firehose. Until then, please patient.

Migrating to newer hardware with more memory and cpus pict-rs are being replicated, so you may see some images missing. Please be patient. If you have login/logout issues be sure to completely dump your browser cache to resolve that.

We are working on improving load balancing today and distributing the instance across multiple servers. As a result, you may see some timeouts, thank you for your patience.

Setup

https://matrix.sdf.org is available to SDF members. There should be further details documented by the community at https://wiki.sdf.org regarding all of the social networking efforts at SDF.

We just made it past 1000 signups this morning. Nearly everyone joining had very thoughtful and meaningful explanations of why they want to try using this instance. It is an amazing time for the internet and we truly appreciate SDF being a part of this.

The NABU computer is a great deal. You can buy one directly from [http://www.pellmill.com/](Pell Mill) and with efforts made by DJ Sures and others at https://nabu.ca there is a thriving infrastructure and community around it. Its z80 based and capable of running CP/M. From there you can run the MSX emulator and play many MSX games.

Here is what SDF’s Toad-2 looked like prior to its installation.

Whatever you want. Since its a semi-private instance you can create and moderate your own communities.

SDF in 2004

It works.

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