Hi all,
Thank you for joining me here! It’s great to see that we have a community that wants to grow in such a new and exciting manner.
As it is, I thought it would be a lot easier to do this by myself than it has been. So I’m asking for some help!
I have several things I need assistance with:
- setting up and moderating a chat community, for those times when users are having issues with the website. I think it’s up to the community what software we use, but I would probably prefer Discord. Since this is all federation though I completely understand if others want to use something like Zulip or Matrix! So let’s just use what everyone wants. If you have an opinion please post below.
- database stuff. I’m absolutely terrible at database stuff, and that is not an exaggeration. If anyone is willing to help it would be much appreciated. Currently I have a need to set up pgbouncer, or we should modify the lemmy source to allow for setting up a bouncer. I also want to set up read replicas so that we can distribute the load a bit more evenly. As it currently is, the site was simply set up with the lemmy-ansible script, so everything is running on a single box 😬. If you know Rust and want to help modify the Lemmy source code for this, or you are a Database Admin and want to help, I’d very much appreciate it.
- instance admins. I cannot be online constantly and I do have a day job. I’m getting messages and applications to join the instance along with needing to set up new communities, create and update rules, moderate, etc. I cannot handle this all alone.
- I also need some general help.
- email admin
- migration of server to larger VPS (will have to bring the entire site down for this, unless someone wants to help set up a load balancer, a brand new box, and have some sort of migration strategy.)
If you want to help out on the server side of things I will want to know your real life persona, but for instance admins, chat mods, etc. I would just like to see some sort of comment history from you elsewhere.
And thank you once again, for helping create an inclusive community.
Thank you for the extensive write up, really appreciated.
I’ll be honest - I didn’t study the inner workings of Matrix. I had my own webchat, with like 6 users, wanted a mobile app, and found then Riot.
I still have less than 10 active users, so it keeps chugging along without issues.
There are other issues I noticed, like completely dead Patreon. Dendrite still in beta. Jitsi integration breakdown.
Which makes me sad, XMPP is very old, so I wanted to root for a newcomer. I still do, but my hope is much smaller.
Wanting to root for a newcomer is what had my enthusiasm for Matrix in the first place, giving XMPP a second look/chance is what made me realize we don’t need something new, as in “if it ain’t broken, don’t fix it!”.
XMPP supports billions of devices, every day, in all kind of applications and use-cases. Every android device get their push notifications from GCM/firebase, which uses XMPP under the hood, just like every nintendo switch. Facebook Messenger, Google Chat and WhatsApp all started off from ejabberd. Many large games have their chat system rely on XMPP/ejabberd and support millions of simultaneous users. XMPP isn’t old, it keeps getting better, more versatile and used in unsuspected places :)
So I guess eventually I will end up on XMPP. Good to know, thanks.