I'm your local server godess. I usually sit in the background doing things, while my lovely partner @ada does her thing moderating the server, but I do pop in every now and then to let you know when important things happen like the server gets an upgrade etc.
So earlier today we were running a slightly old version of lemmy on the same hardware as the database server, which started causing problems as our instance has grown significantly over the last few days.
So tonight we're running a freshly upgraded lemmy 0.17.4, moved onto its own dedicated server instance.
Hopefully this should resolve the issues we were having and let me or Ada know if you notice any issues or glitches.
Also Ada has relented and setup a ko-fi donations page for those that want to donate AND can afford it.
We want to stress that we are running these instances to support our community, so the last thing we want is to add financial stress to the members of that community.
If you're privileged enough to be able to help with a donation without causing yourself financial stress, you're welcome to help cover some of the running costs. But if you're not, please do not feel any obligation to do so as that would undermine the goal behind creating these spaces in the first place. We'd rather keep covering the costs ourselves than pull funds away from the members of our community that need it.
Thanks Kaiity and Ada for all your hard work on this!!!!!
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CynAq - 2.5yr
I have a confession to make, and I think it's hilarious.
I was out of the loop as to what Blåhaj was, and seeing it written as blahaj in the URLs, I thought it had something to do with the fitness youtuber Jason Blaha.
That said, this looks like an amazing community. I wish everyone all the best!
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✨Abigail Watson✨ - 2.5yr
I know a lot of things are up in the air right now, but do you guys have a guesstimate for server costs? I think beehaw was looking at 1-2k per year.
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Ada - 2.5yr
We're running at around 800 a month at the moment, but that's with 4 instances, none of which are sharing hardware anymore. That being said, we're deliberately over resourced at the moment until lemmy and kbin settle down and we get a better feel for what they need.
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Anahkiasen - 2.5yr
Thanks for the update!
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ｓｉｌｌｙ . ｌｉｌ . ｊｅｓｔｅｒ - 2.5yr
Thank you. 💙🩵🐬
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‘Leigh 🏳️⚧️ - 2.5yr
Y’all are the best. 💜
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Scurvotron - 2.5yr
Thanks Kaity.
Since the upgrade I get SytaxError string does not match the expected pattern when I try to upload an image any idea?
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Kaity A - 2.5yr
All fixed!
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Wereduck - 2.5yr
Nice!
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poweredbygamespy - 2.5yr
hey yeah same
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rowie324 - 2.5yr
thank you, local server goddess c:
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skye - 2.5yr
yay! thx for ur hard work Kaity and Ada! i know that sudden large waves of new users can cause a lot of stress when running servers and platforms like this, it's awesome of u folks to provide this space for lgbtq+ folk
also, sorry if this is not an appropriate place to ask, but you mentioned running these instances to "support your community" and when i signed up here i also signed up for the Calckey instance cuz i had been thinking about trying out Calckey for a while and figured i may as well. i was wondering last night while browsing on the Calckey instance if ya'll are running an established community around something you do otherwise that has existed for a while or if it's fairly new and has grown mostly because of the Reddit migrators. i noticed an announcement on the Calckey instance that mentioned something about your other projects, which is another reason i'm wondering. mostly im wondering, is there like a Discord or (better for me) a Matrix, Revolt, or Guilded? or anything like that? or when you mention other projects are you mostly referencing, like, software and stuff that you've developed? in which case also, is there a place i can check it out?
i joined here as a reddit user looking for alternatives and im a socialist and anarchist and lgbtq+ so this seemed like a fitting instance for me lol but this community seems neat and if there's more places to interact with it or engage with ya'll's content i'm interested in learning more basically x3
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Ada - 2.5yr
Blahaj Zone isn't attached to any particular community before it.
We currently run a Friendica instance, a Calckey/Hajkey instance and a Lemmy instance. We have a kbin instance that should hopefully be turned on later today.
Project wise, aside from our instances, the main project is Hajkey itself.
We don't have a discord community or the like, but there is nothing stopping you from spinning up an unofficial one if you like. I used to be active on Discord (and previously owned the TransLater discord community), but Discord has lost its shine for me recently.
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skye - 2.5yr
okay, awesome thx :3
idk if i will create one, i don't really like running stuff, but i'd probably join a chat community if someone else does. especially if it's on Matrix or Revolt!
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Wereduck - 2.5yr
Thank you both for all your work into this community!:)
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Hiroji - 2.5yr
Was wondering why it was returning HTTP 500. Great its up and running and improved ^w^
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SnugZebras - 2.5yr
Wohoo donations!
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megopie - 2.5yr
Praise be server goddess and the pantheon that makes this community possible.
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0x0F - 2.5yr
woo!
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bootyberrypancakes - 2.5yr
Thank you both! 💜
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Lanthanae - 2.5yr
Thanks for the update and thanks for all the work you're doing to give everyone on this server a great home in the fediverse 😄
Just tossed in 5 bucks. Thanks for running this instance.
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yaenntz - 2.5yr
Thanks to both of you! 🙏I'll check later if I can donate.
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NoxiousPluK - 2.5yr
Awesome, it seems to work a lot better with Mlem on iOS as well now!
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sharksrtrans - 2.5yr
Is this a place where I could ask for help navigating lemmy pages?
I found blahaj because of a post from beehaw but for some reason beehaw won't load on firefox or chrome. When the page does load I'll click 'log in' and it just hangs with the rotating circle.
I'll be transparent and say I really am terribly confused and am uncertain of where to find places to chat about Final Fantasy 16, horror movies or other weird stuff I'm into.
196 is certainly lovely and I dig it. I also.. I kinda wish for more opportunities to chat.
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kukkurovaca - 2.5yr
Not sure about beehaw not loading, but if it helps, there are two ways to see most pages in lemmy. One is where you are looking at that page as it appears from within your home instance, and the other is to look at that page on its own instance.
For example, here is a post on beehaw, loaded in blahaj:
Depending on a variety of factors, the comments you see and the upvote count will be different.
In terms of discovering communities, you can search for communities using the magnifying glass, but the search can be a little janky. There are also some communities dedicated to instance promotion and discovery, like:
If you find a community on another instance that you want to join but blahaj hasn't already indexed it, you can do a search like this:
!manybaggers@wayfarershaven.eu
Exclamation, followed by the community name, @ sign, the instance. This should prompt blahaj to look for that community. Sometimes you have to wait a little bit and then do it again for it to work.
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sharksrtrans - 2.5yr
If you click on the fedilink icon (the little rainbow graph thingy) it will take you to that same on beehaw:
May I please ask where aboot that'd be found?
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kukkurovaca - 2.5yr
Rainbow pentagram graph thingy. On posts it's between the comment count and the star icon for saving posts.
On comments, it will appear to the right of the link icon and to the left of the language.
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Hiyari - 2.5yr
I'm very happy I found out about all this today, and did my part. Thanks for everything <3
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_sylveon - 2.5yr
Hi, I think the frontend is still on an outdated version.
(e.g. the comment count still counts edits as new comments and the browser preference for dark themes doesn't get respected, which is fixed on other instances like lemmy.world)
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Animal Planet - 2.5yr
Donated!
Would be willing to share what the current monthly costs look like?
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Ada - 2.5yr
We're paying around $800 a month at the moment, but that is for 4 over resourced servers and storage for four separate instances. We are very much not looking to recoup all of that cost from donations, and it also doesn't represent our final monthly costs once things have settled down with reddit migrations. For now, we're trying to avoid things falling over if we get another wave.
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Animal Planet - 2.5yr
Thank you for the response! I intend to continue donating as I participate in the community over time.
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Andy - 2.5yr
Thank you two so much! The upgrade has been awesome so far, it's a world of difference!
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Toni Widmo - 2.5yr
Not sure if this comment will post, because when I try to post on the community I mod, it just spins indefinitely and never actually posts. Currently using my Calckey account to post replies...
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Toni Widmo - 2.5yr
Okay weird. It actually posted successfully in this thread. Further research shows that the issue is, non-Lemmy users (from mastodon or calckey) can reply to a topic, but then a Lemmy user can't reply to those replies.
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Lotus Eater - 2.5yr
the last thing we want is to add financial stress to the members of that community.
Imo you're shouldering server stress so the least I, and those who can afford to donate, donate. Thanks!
supakaity in main
Blåhaj Lemmy upgraded and migrated
Hey everyone,
I'm your local server godess. I usually sit in the background doing things, while my lovely partner @ada does her thing moderating the server, but I do pop in every now and then to let you know when important things happen like the server gets an upgrade etc.
So earlier today we were running a slightly old version of lemmy on the same hardware as the database server, which started causing problems as our instance has grown significantly over the last few days.
So tonight we're running a freshly upgraded lemmy 0.17.4, moved onto its own dedicated server instance.
Hopefully this should resolve the issues we were having and let me or Ada know if you notice any issues or glitches.
Also Ada has relented and setup a ko-fi donations page for those that want to donate AND can afford it.
We want to stress that we are running these instances to support our community, so the last thing we want is to add financial stress to the members of that community.
If you're privileged enough to be able to help with a donation without causing yourself financial stress, you're welcome to help cover some of the running costs. But if you're not, please do not feel any obligation to do so as that would undermine the goal behind creating these spaces in the first place. We'd rather keep covering the costs ourselves than pull funds away from the members of our community that need it.
Lots of love! Kaity (and Ada).
Big shoutout to our local server goddess @supakaity@lemmy.blahaj.zone and moderation champion @ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone! They keep blahaj.zone running smoothly and bigotry-free. We appreciate all their hard work and dedication. You both rock! 🙌👏
Thanks Kaiity and Ada for all your hard work on this!!!!!
I have a confession to make, and I think it's hilarious.
I was out of the loop as to what Blåhaj was, and seeing it written as blahaj in the URLs, I thought it had something to do with the fitness youtuber Jason Blaha.
That said, this looks like an amazing community. I wish everyone all the best!
I know a lot of things are up in the air right now, but do you guys have a guesstimate for server costs? I think beehaw was looking at 1-2k per year.
We're running at around 800 a month at the moment, but that's with 4 instances, none of which are sharing hardware anymore. That being said, we're deliberately over resourced at the moment until lemmy and kbin settle down and we get a better feel for what they need.
Thanks for the update!
Thank you. 💙🩵🐬
Y’all are the best. 💜
Thanks Kaity.
Since the upgrade I get
SytaxError string does not match the expected pattern when I try to upload an imageany idea?All fixed!
Nice!
hey yeah same
thank you, local server goddess c:
yay! thx for ur hard work Kaity and Ada! i know that sudden large waves of new users can cause a lot of stress when running servers and platforms like this, it's awesome of u folks to provide this space for lgbtq+ folk
also, sorry if this is not an appropriate place to ask, but you mentioned running these instances to "support your community" and when i signed up here i also signed up for the Calckey instance cuz i had been thinking about trying out Calckey for a while and figured i may as well. i was wondering last night while browsing on the Calckey instance if ya'll are running an established community around something you do otherwise that has existed for a while or if it's fairly new and has grown mostly because of the Reddit migrators. i noticed an announcement on the Calckey instance that mentioned something about your other projects, which is another reason i'm wondering. mostly im wondering, is there like a Discord or (better for me) a Matrix, Revolt, or Guilded? or anything like that? or when you mention other projects are you mostly referencing, like, software and stuff that you've developed? in which case also, is there a place i can check it out?
i joined here as a reddit user looking for alternatives and im a socialist and anarchist and lgbtq+ so this seemed like a fitting instance for me lol but this community seems neat and if there's more places to interact with it or engage with ya'll's content i'm interested in learning more basically x3
Blahaj Zone isn't attached to any particular community before it.
We currently run a Friendica instance, a Calckey/Hajkey instance and a Lemmy instance. We have a kbin instance that should hopefully be turned on later today.
Project wise, aside from our instances, the main project is Hajkey itself.
We don't have a discord community or the like, but there is nothing stopping you from spinning up an unofficial one if you like. I used to be active on Discord (and previously owned the TransLater discord community), but Discord has lost its shine for me recently.
okay, awesome thx :3
idk if i will create one, i don't really like running stuff, but i'd probably join a chat community if someone else does. especially if it's on Matrix or Revolt!
Thank you both for all your work into this community!:)
Was wondering why it was returning HTTP 500. Great its up and running and improved ^w^
Wohoo donations!
Praise be server goddess and the pantheon that makes this community possible.
woo!
Thank you both! 💜
Thanks for the update and thanks for all the work you're doing to give everyone on this server a great home in the fediverse 😄
Yay we can donate. Yay!
Thanks! 😆
Just tossed in 5 bucks. Thanks for running this instance.
Thanks to both of you! 🙏I'll check later if I can donate.
Awesome, it seems to work a lot better with Mlem on iOS as well now!
Is this a place where I could ask for help navigating lemmy pages?
I found blahaj because of a post from beehaw but for some reason beehaw won't load on firefox or chrome. When the page does load I'll click 'log in' and it just hangs with the rotating circle.
I'll be transparent and say I really am terribly confused and am uncertain of where to find places to chat about Final Fantasy 16, horror movies or other weird stuff I'm into.
196 is certainly lovely and I dig it. I also.. I kinda wish for more opportunities to chat.
Not sure about beehaw not loading, but if it helps, there are two ways to see most pages in lemmy. One is where you are looking at that page as it appears from within your home instance, and the other is to look at that page on its own instance.
For example, here is a post on beehaw, loaded in blahaj:
https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/325114
If you click on the fedilink icon (the little rainbow graph thingy) it will take you to that same on beehaw:
https://beehaw.org/post/723237
Depending on a variety of factors, the comments you see and the upvote count will be different.
In terms of discovering communities, you can search for communities using the magnifying glass, but the search can be a little janky. There are also some communities dedicated to instance promotion and discovery, like:
There are also some externally hosted tools for browsing instances and communities, like:
https://browse.feddit.de/
If you find a community on another instance that you want to join but blahaj hasn't already indexed it, you can do a search like this:
!manybaggers@wayfarershaven.eu
Exclamation, followed by the community name, @ sign, the instance. This should prompt blahaj to look for that community. Sometimes you have to wait a little bit and then do it again for it to work.
May I please ask where aboot that'd be found?
Rainbow pentagram graph thingy. On posts it's between the comment count and the star icon for saving posts.
On comments, it will appear to the right of the link icon and to the left of the language.
I'm very happy I found out about all this today, and did my part. Thanks for everything <3
Hi, I think the frontend is still on an outdated version. (e.g. the comment count still counts edits as new comments and the browser preference for dark themes doesn't get respected, which is fixed on other instances like lemmy.world)
Donated! Would be willing to share what the current monthly costs look like?
We're paying around $800 a month at the moment, but that is for 4 over resourced servers and storage for four separate instances. We are very much not looking to recoup all of that cost from donations, and it also doesn't represent our final monthly costs once things have settled down with reddit migrations. For now, we're trying to avoid things falling over if we get another wave.
Thank you for the response! I intend to continue donating as I participate in the community over time.
Thank you two so much! The upgrade has been awesome so far, it's a world of difference!
Not sure if this comment will post, because when I try to post on the community I mod, it just spins indefinitely and never actually posts. Currently using my Calckey account to post replies...
Okay weird. It actually posted successfully in this thread. Further research shows that the issue is, non-Lemmy users (from mastodon or calckey) can reply to a topic, but then a Lemmy user can't reply to those replies.
Imo you're shouldering server stress so the least I, and those who can afford to donate, donate. Thanks!