On Monday, June 26th, 2023 at 07:44:07 UTC, our esteemed host @self posted:
Federation came a few weeks later on 17 July. Our subs now have regulars from across Lemmy and Mastodon.
It’s been a wild party and we’re not stopping any time soon. Go wedgie a nerd today.
🎉🎉🎉🎉 fuck yeah 🎉🎉🎉🎉
the community we’ve built here is amazing, and it’s thanks to everyone who contributes that we’ve made it to a year!
our instance has exceeded my wildest expectations, and it keeps pushing the boundaries of the technology that we use to host it. my initial thought behind starting this instance was “huh, I wonder how hard it’d be to deploy Lemmy on NixOS. maybe David and some of the SneerClub regulars would find it useful now that Reddit’s effectively dead?” and now we’re likely about to outlive NixOS’s relevancy (@self a year ago would be horrified at this) and one day soon we’ll even have a true Lemmy fork worth running. we’ve got so much in store for this instance, so let’s keep this party going!
Thank you for weilding the banhammer with grace and ruthlesness required to keep this community awesome.
We appreciate your sacrifice.
I love this place and actually have to block myself from it in weekdays because it’s the only way I can get work done. I’m working hard on something that I hope to post to the FreeAssembly channel soon, though! Thanks for making this space and maintaining it so well.
are we going to have to move to guix, I get rms toejam nightmares when I close too many parentheses
I really hope not — I like Lisp, but a bunch of old gnu folks showed their whole ass every chance they got as things got worse in the nix community, and guix is nothing if not peak gnu. unfortunately we might have to stick with nix until either a viable replacement exists, or the packages we rely on fall so far out of maintenance it endangers the instance; at that point, guix might become the least bad option.
I’m open to suggestions for other tools or ways forward, though I’m hoping I can keep us off of the set of devops tooling that’s documented mostly in the form of logrocket posts and other breathless SEO spam and gets actively painful to use as soon as you scale past example code, because I don’t particularly want administrating our instance to resemble my day job, where I only tolerate that horseshit because it pays. likewise, native is vastly preferred over containers.
Much respect to @self for actually maintaining and hosting open infrastructure and the various moderators for preserving the vibe. Doing either as well as y’all are doing it is not easy. Thank you!
This place is super cozy.
Happy birthday to the oasis of sanity for everyone working in tech. 🎉
happy birthday server, and thanks for all the hard work mods, developers/maintaners, commenters/posters and all you lurkers.