It looks like some sort of issue with pict-rs, the image backend for Lemmy. I haven’t paid enough attention to see which instances are having problems.

Does my user image show up? I’m hosting a tiny Lemmy instance just for myself.

I believe this has more to do with pict-rs than Lemmy (the image handling back end that Lemmy uses). I’m struggling to find specifics on this from my phone right now though.

Yeah it’s likely that I’ll move this eventually. This instance was only setup so I had a test environment to learn AWS.

Currently I’m just running a single user instance on a t2.micro. I’ve definitely locked it up at least twice after subscribing to a big batch of external communities so it’s definitely undersized if were to open it up to more users. I only have one other small service running on that instance though so Lemmy is definitely using the bulk of that capacity at least when it’s got work to do.

Costs are about $11.25 a month for the instance and about $2.50 for block storage (which is oversized now that pict-rs is on S3). I’m guessing that pict-rs s3 costs will be just a few pennies a day unless I start posting a lot on my own instance, probably less than a dollar a month.

Data transfer costs for me are zero though. I’m not using a load balancer or moving things between regions so I don’t expect that to change.

There is a good writeup on how to do the migration here. I went through it myself since I host my tiny Lemmy instance on an AWS EC2 instance. It went pretty smoothly bu obviously larger instances will have to take a longer downtime to perform the migration.

Notoriously mature and level headed mods that spend all day on the internet putting an excessive amount of emotional energy into something most people barely care about… Who could have predicted this?

Using Google apps used to be a smooth and seamless experience but it’s become a slog. The best you can hope for is that they’ll just stop supporting whatever service you like and just let it rot without updates for years while you are allowed to keep using it. Otherwise they’ll just force you to migrate around constantly while merging or fragmenting the experience until the former happens anyway.

It’s exhausting and it’s utterly destroyed my desire to check out anything new in their ecosystem.

It’s pretty hilarious how badly they’ve fucked this up. I have no interest in Google Chat at all because it’s almost certain they’ll replace it with yet another service before I even have a chance to settle in.

Why does everyone think we are collectively too stupid to figure out how to use the internet? Like holy crap.

Normies are not very tech savvy and they are completely unwilling to deal with even the most minor inconveniences. Most people just want to open their mouth and have someone dump some internet in there. “Having to curate an experience” is not something many people are willing to do.

Obviously you should only input account credentials into an app you trust, but shouldn’t a properly designed Lemmy app not store the credentials in plain text at all? (And definitely never send them somewhere else) Authorize the user through the API and then it’s just an authenticated session, no need to store the username/password at all until you sign out.

I suppose if you have fast user switching it might need to store it. Hmmmm.

Pretty funny but if you enter you actual password it will hide it. My pass is ************, which should show up as asterisks for you.

Try it out. Pretty cool security feature honestly.

I’ve been wanting to do this as an experiment. I exported my Reddit history (15,474 comments over the last 12 years) and I wanted to test out making a LLM bot of myself on my own instance.

I’ll probably hate it, but it seems like a good learning experience.