ssnoer

Thanks to @OctoLumia@indie-ver.se for making this amazing banner.

We now have a new sitelogo made by @Blisterexe@lemmy.zip! Post: indie-ver.se/post/10275

We want to thank everybody who participated in the logo competition for your time and your art. We chose this logo, because it ended up looking the best as a favicon.

Thank you to all who participated

- ssnoer

Indie-verse is currently hosted behind a Cloudflare proxy, which has saved the server a lot of traffic and helped protect against AI crawlers.

After some careful consideration I also enabled “Bot Fight Mode”, but only after making sure, I had working custom rules that skipped every security feature for federation related traffic. But it turns out, custom rules can’t skip Bot Fight Mode using a free plan, which I only found out today. This has left me with no choice, but to disable bot fight mode for now, and it will not be re-enabled while we are on the free plan.

Currently I don’t have the money to upgrade us, but it should not pose an issue, as there are other security measures against bots, that should prevent potential issues.

Thought I would let you know.

- ssnoer

PS: we also just got our very first donation. Thank you guys!

We now storage all images on a Hetzner S3 bucket, instead of on the server. This should help us scale more effectively. (This post is mostly a test to see if it works xD)

cross-posted from: https://indie-ver.se/post/39594

I am the admin of the newly created instance https://indie-ver.se/, and it's been going great. But as I was looking to migrate all images to a S3 bucket, I noticed, the images take up more space than I had anticipated, a bit over 1 GB. And I know for a fact, that there has not been many images uploaded to this instance directly.

My best guess is, that it's because lemmy by default creates local thumbnails for external posts, via. the setting "image_mode: StoreLinkPreviews". Lemmy does allow me to disable this behavior, i.e. it would not cache the thumbnails on my instance, and instead have browsers request the image from the other instances.

The question is, what impact would that have on my users, and what impact would it have on the fedi-verse in general? I believe it would save me a lot on future storage costs, but I don't know if it's worth it.

- ssnoer

I am the admin of the newly created instance https://indie-ver.se/, and it's been going great. But as I was looking to migrate all images to a S3 bucket, I noticed, the images take up more space than I had anticipated, a bit over 1 GB. And I know for a fact, that there has not been many images uploaded to this instance directly.

My best guess is, that it's because lemmy by default creates local thumbnails for external posts, via. the setting "image_mode: StoreLinkPreviews". Lemmy does allow me to disable this behavior, i.e. it would not cache the thumbnails on my instance, and instead have browsers request the image from the other instances.

The question is, what impact would that have on my users, and what impact would it have on the fedi-verse in general? I believe it would save me a lot on future storage costs, but I don't know if it's worth it.

- ssnoer

I was listening to the soundtrack of Silksong, while searching for music to use in my DnD campaign, and I became quite unsure of what emotions and feelings Shellwood is supposed to convey?

What emotions or story is Shellwood trying to tell? (not just in music)

To me, the music is quite mournful, and the area is seems somewhat dead, but what is the point?

cross-posted from: https://indie-ver.se/post/20213

Hi again!

I am trying to improve the security for my website, but I am unsure of which paths federation and API traffic hits, and which paths should be exempt from e.g. Javascript challenges? Could somebody give me some insight into this?

Hi again!

I am trying to improve the security for my website, but I am unsure of which paths federation and API traffic hits, and which paths should be exempt from e.g. Javascript challenges? Could somebody give me some insight into this?

I am thinking of trying out new adding more official front ends for Indie-verse. Does anybody have preferences to which front ends to add?

What is a front-end? You might ask. It's an alternative website ot view the exact same fedi-verse content. An example could be mlmym