jon

If your feed is sorted by New or includes local content, you may notice a TON of new posts showing up on reddit_ communities here over the next few days- I am attempting to scrape as much content as I can from Reddit prior to the API pricing changes on July 1. All of this content will be limited to the reddit_* communities on this instance, if you don't wish to see this content you can simply block the communities as they appear.

If anyone has requests for a subreddit mirror, drop them in the comments and I'll try to get to your request sometime this week.

Edit: Halted since random other Lemmy instances managed to auto-index my new subs, I don't want to flood any feeds outside of lemmy.tf with this. Since I can't control other instances auto discovering my new communities, all Reddit cloning will now occur in a new, defederated instance.

All import activities are now taking place at https://defed.lemmy.tf/.

just a test

Figured I'd post a heads up and see if anyone has input/feedback while I'm still working on this.

A friend and I are working on a Stable Diffusion bot to plug into this community. It will be available in the comments section of any post, and you'll be able to call it by leaving a comment with nothing but a tag of the bot's account + an image prompt. Bot will then take your request and run it through one of my Stable Diffusion servers and reply back with its output- not sure if I want to do one or multiple images for each gen.

I'm also looking into some ways to handle custom parameters since everything will hit the automatic1111 API. Initially everything will be forced to 512x512 with a specific sampler, step count, etc.

Let me know if anyone has suggestions or ideas for cool features, I do plan to continue adding to the bot over time but want to get something up here quickly.

Does anyone know of any Lemmy bots that can use a Stable Diffusion instance instead of DALLe? I found https://github.com/SleeplessOne1917/lemmy-art-bot but it's currently OpenAI only. I've got a machine sitting around with a mostly-idle SD instance and wouldn't mind hooking it up to the comments of a community on my Lemmy server (or here, but don't want to abuse someone else's storage).

yep

Not much has changed today. Email verification is now disabled as we seem to have hit some bug where it just craps out until the Docker pods are restarted, I'm probably going to leave this disabled unless we start getting some large influx of spam users.

Default theme has also been changed to Darkly - Red which feels a bit more reminiscent of Reddit.

Some thoughts on image uploads

Image storage remains my primary concern for instance scalability. I am fairly limited on local storage since the server running this instance is all-NVMe, so if the /pictrs volume fills up too much, I will have to connect a cloud disk. Rather than totally disabling image uploads (which would also mean no avatars), I'm leaning towards setting something like a 400kb limit for all uploads. This is still TBD and may wind up being unnecessary if I can find some cheap option.

In preparation for a (hopeful) influx of users, I've bumped up the resources for the server a bit. We're now running on 4 cores/8gb ram and a 512tb disk on one of my OVH servers, and I may setup a larger disk for image storage if it winds up growing quickly. I've got plenty of resources to spare so there shouldn't be any scalability issues.

Email is also functional and now required for all new signups. No admin validation is required at the moment, but this could change if we start getting a flood of bots or something.

I am also looking for an admin or two to assist with the day-to-day management of this. Not sure what that will look like since I'm pretty new to Lemmy, so any help is appreciated.