The intention is to relocate all hosting services from east coast USA/Canada to Germany in early January. This should have minimal impact on most users, but I wanted to provide advance notice so everyone has the opportunity to delete their account prior to the move should they disagree with having their data stored in Germany, for whatever reason. If you wish to move instances, there is an account export option on your settings page.

Hello everyone. I hope you’re having/about to have an enjoyable weekend!

A quick update to let you all know the server had a significant upgrade yesterday. While you may notice things are a little more zippy, the need for added performance was definitely not the main driver for the upgrade. The main reason was the ever-increasing size of the database, which had left us dangerously close to a full disk!

Unfortunately, this means our monthly server costs have almost doubled, and while I haven’t been open to accepting donations in the past, we have now passed a cost threshold where I feel it is appropriate. To this end, I have added a couple of donation options to the sidebar. Donate, don’t donate, it’s entirely up to you. I appreciate everyone’s circumstances are different, and nothing is expected from you.

In other news, we also updated to the latest Lemmy 0.19.10 version yesterday. 🎉

While this is a fairly minor update, with most development now focused on the next major version, it does introduce the ability to delete PMs along with other content when a user is banned, which is a major QoL improvement for admins. Importantly, it means no more manually deleting Nicole’s flirtatious PMs from the database…

You can see changes and follow the discussion in the 0.19.10 thread.

The server has been updated to Lemmy 0.19.9 🎉

Refer to the release thread for a summary of changes and discussion.

The server has been updated to Lemmy 0.19.6 🎉

Refer to the release thread for a summary of changes and discussion.

It looks like there may have been some small style changes to the web UI, so please let me know if anything has broken with the Leminal Space theme (if you’re using it).

EDIT: Minor bugfix release 0.19.7 has since been installed.

EDIT: Update complete.

Service will be interrupted from 0:00 UTC (~1 hour from now) due to updates to both Lemmy and the database version. This is a major update and downtime could be up to to two hours (but hopefully less).

As ever, you can refer to status.leminal.space if we’re down to see if it’s planned and what the reason is.

I’ll comment here once the updates are complete.

The featureful Photon fork Tesseract is now available to use at tes.leminal.space. It has significantly advanced upon Photon’s already excellent interface and really come into its own. As such, the list of features is extensive, so I encourage you to check out the repo for a full description if you’re interested. Tesseract also works well on mobile, especially when installed as a PWA, so give that a try, too.

If all goes well, it’s likely Photon will be retired in the next couple of weeks with Tesseract taking its place. (EDIT: This has now been implemented.)

EDIT: Tesseract is no longer hosted here due to shenanigans

We had an issue over the past 24 hours or so that stopped incoming federated comments from making it to the database (you may have noticed highly-upvoted posts with 0 comments). This has now been resolved and comments are being received again.

This issue should not have impacted outgoing comments reaching other instances.

Photon is now available as an alternative web front-end at photon.leminal.space - link also in the sidebar.

The image service is currently degraded while a database migration completes. It may be hit-or-miss whether images appear, but should be 100% within an hour or so.

In the interests of transparency around how this instance is intended to be run, and so that prospective users can make an informed decision before joining, this post will serve as a living document briefly outlining policies and information about Leminal Space.

Geographic location

The server is located in Germany. Cached content will be served to you via the nearest global Cloudflare server.

Defederation policy

We will actively and pre-emptively defederate from predominantly fascist, far-right and alt-right (or troll) instances.

To reduce the likelihood of legal issues, we do not federate with porn/NFSW instances and suggest you use an alt-account if you wish to interact with those.

We do not and will not federate with Threads or any other Meta entity.

Either leave a comment below or post a thread to /c/leminalspacemeta if there is an instance you believe should be considered for defederation in line with the above policy.

We will remain federated with all leftist instances (yes, even the sh*tposting ones).

Word filter policy

We do not implement any word filters.