Lemmy doesn’t provide any analytics. Give this post a like and/or comment if you use this instance. I’m trying to gauge usage by humans.
I’ll let this census run for about a week to gauge usage.
Results might cause different changes to the services.
I’m doing this because the cost of running this instance is higher than most other instances due to reliability and disaster recovery implementations. I’m curious if I should back down many of these costs if we’re not used fully. I don’t see much activity directly in this instance.
I know that discuss.online wasn’t listed on join-lemmy.org for about a month due to a bug with the Lemmy crawler. They just recently fixed it with their redesign. We are now listed but no longer featured.
tl;dr; is this instance dying? Let me know if you’re here.
I to am very much here! but as long as there are backups I dont see any reason to have hot spare level of redundancy.
I like being on a smaller side instance so we get the best of both worlds where we can connect to other instances without a big fear of defed. I enjoy content on Behaww and Lemmy.world but the two dont always seem to get along.
Also, if you want to maintain some level of redundancy I have hardware running 24/7 on UPS with fiber internet that I would be happy to work with you on setting up as a backup.
I use a managed database that costs $120/month alone for just the Lemmy db. I went a little overkill on trying to make this a great scalable instance. I’m paying like $600/month out of pocket running all these services. I have to bring it down… says the wife.
Hell yeah lets bring that donw, but again Happy to assist on the hardware side if I can. 600/m is not sustainable the wife is right!
It’s difficult, it’s getting to the stage where some sort of backup server is needed and that costs.
compuverse.uk went down because of a hardware issue for nearly a month.
Ultimately we might find users on one or two big instances. Which would be ironic.