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https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/instances shows lemmygrad as blocked, maybe there are some older communities that were never removed on blahaj after defederation?

do you happen to have experience with setting up influxdb and telegraf? or maybe something else that might be better suited?

the metrics are currently in prometheus metrics format and scraped every 5 minutes.

my idea was to keep the current retention for most metrics and have longer retention (possibly with lower granularity for data older than a month).

the current prometheus setup is super simple, you can see (and older copy of) the config here.

if you want to build a configuration for influxdb/telegraf that i can more or less just drop in there without too many adjustments that would certainly be welcomed.

the metric that would need longer retention is lemmy_federation_state_last_successful_id_local.

I’ll probably have to look at another storage than prometheus, aiui it’s not really well suited for this task.

maybe something with influxdb+telegraf, although i haven’t looked at that yet.

so all you’re looking for is the amount of activities generated per instance?

that is only a small subset of the data currently collected, most of the storage use currently comes from collecting information in relation to other instances.

Hi, I run this.

What benefit do you expect from longer retention periods and how much time did you have in mind?

The way data is currently collected and stored keeps the same granularity for the entire time period, which currently uses around 60 GiB for a month of retention across all monitored instances.

see https://programming.dev/post/20167648 and https://programming.dev/post/20201619, this was an issue with p.d infrastructure

you may have broken your language settings? check in your account settings. the posts are all tagged as English, you’ll want to have at least English and undefined languages selected

fwiw, for Sync users the update to 0.19.5 is not that great, as @ljdawson@lemmy.world still hasn’t updated Sync to use the updated APIs for marking posts as read :(

likely https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/2666

this is only for setting the default user language during registration based on the browsers accept language headers.

this is likely related to https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4971

for sure, but they’re neither mentioned on https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/02-media.html nor on the linked CommonMark tutorial.

It’s not even just that. It seems that the extra @ acts as a separator, so you can’t even autocomplete e.g. @threelonmusketeers@sh as that’ll try to autocomplete @sh instead of taking the instance domain as part of the mention.

I’ve raised a GitHub issue for this now: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/2652

on firefox, if i type @gedal and click or press tab once it replaces the text with [@gedaliyah@lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/u/gedaliyah) . the behavior is the same whether i hit tab, enter or click the text.

You can export/import your account settings on the settings page, which includes also the following data:

• subscribed communities
• saved posts
• saved comments
• blocked communities
• blocked users
• blocked instances

There is no way to associate content you have previously posted/commented with your new account however.
You might need to import the file multiple times to get everything imported.

it does, but only if you use the autocomplete feature. it’s also a bit delayed without any indicator that it’s loading.

if you type @gedal and wait a moment it’ll load @gedaliyah@lemmy.world to be selected:

Except it wasn’t created on lemmy.ml, it was created on lemmy.world.

lemmy.world then informed lemmy.ml that it is intended to be published in the community that it was created for.

It doesn’t say “crossposted from lemmy.world” but “crossposted from canonical_post_url”. This is not wrong in any way, although it might be a bit confusing and could likely be improved by including a reference to the community. The instance domain should for the most part just be a technical detail there.

It should also be noted that this format of crossposting is an implementation detail of Lemmy-UI and other clients may handle it differently (if they’re implementing crossposting in the first place).

I’m not saying it’s technically impossible, although it would likely be a bit challenging to integrate on the technical level, as the community instance has no authority to modify the post itself other than removing it from the community at this point.

The existing fedilink is already present for technical reasons anyway, so this is currently only showing existing data.

Why would you want a lemmy.ml link though? On Lemmy you’re typically intending to stay on your own instance, which many third party apps already implement. For Lemmy UI there is already a feature request to implement this, although it might still take some time to get done. If you have the canonical link to an object (which will always point to the users instance) Lemmy can look up which post/comment you’re referring to in its db without any network calls when it already knows about the entry. If you were linking to the lemmy.ml version of that post then the instance would first have to do a network request to resolve that and then it would realize it’s actually the lemmy.world version that it may or may not know about already.

it doesn’t matter whether you consider it reasonable, as it’s this way for technical reasons.

when a post or comment are created they are created on the users instance. the users instance then tells the community instance about the new post/comment and the community instance relays (announces) this to other instances that have community subscribers.

the fedilink is an id and reference to the original item. this unique id is known to all servers that know about this comment and it is what is used when updates to the post are distributed. except for the reference to the item on the originating instance, no instance stores information about where to find a specific post/comment on a random other instance.