With Hetzner's price rises taking effect, I'm moving piefed.social to somewhere else. Most likely it'll be during a quiet time when few people will notice, around 00:00 to 3:00 UTC on Saturday.

EDIT: server migration is complete! Bringing it online in it's new home was a bit rocky so possibly half the posts made while piefed.social was down were lost.

Thanks for the heads up.

Thanks for the heads up. There were some scattered services that went down last night because of a DDOS attack, and it’s nice to know that when this goes down, it’s just for maintenance!

Oh shit, we’re already into the window! Lol

Where are we moving?

doh. what must be done. must be done.

Into two old servers in my garage.

Are y'all gonna fit in there?

Nice, we’re all going to be nice and snuck there while we hunker down.

hmm it's pretty nice outside, maybe later...

it sure is

enjoy your evening :)

This is so human and I love it. Hope you’re enjoying the nice weather.

Holy shit those are some steep price increases.

77 degrees, that's good for brewing green tea, far too hot for living human beings.

I don't take up much room.

That's relatively cool for Florida, they use Fahrenheit in the US.

77F = 25C

Gl!

On a couple months it will be 100+ F your welcome to visit ;)

I like it cooler for my tea and otherwise, even though I may be stuck in Orlando for the moment, I’m a lifelong New Yorker! 😁

This makes me want to run a server on the servers in my garage

Is there a way to pitch in to help you cover the running costs? I believe in paying for the stuff I use.

EDIT: Of course, there's a prominent Donate button up top that never moves, and I missed it. I wish I didn't have to give a cut to Patreon, Ko-Fi or Liberapay though... I'll check which one has the lowest fees before donating.

I bought a Storage Box from them this month. I need to backup somewhere and I've seen them recommended many times. I need a reputable provider in the EU. If somebody has better propositions, let me know.

If I may ask, I saw a Donate link on PieFed, I actually plan to use it if I stay (my account is just a couple weeks old), I guess there's not enough donations to cover the costs?

Sure, please see https://piefed.social/donate

There are easily enough donations to cover hosting costs but nowhere near enough to enable me to spend as much time working on the software as it needs.

Well, something simple turned out to warrant a bit more research than I anticipated:

• Patreon requires an account. That can fuck right off.
• Liberapay is for recurring support only. I only do one-time payments that I renew myself manually every year: I don't want any recurring payments going on my credit card. Ever.
• Ko-Fi takes a 5% cut. Meh...

I guess I'll do Ko-Fi...

That's great, but you should probably inform your members that the instance now falls under New Zeeland jurisdiction, no?

I also wonder how it will effect federation latency or so (not sure what to call it). Some Lemmy instances hosted in Australia had major issues with that in the past.

On LiberaPay you can just select the payment to not autorenew and it becomes in effect a one time donation.

Good point about the jurisdiction. I'm not too worried about making a bit announcement about it though as this change simplifies things - before https://piefed.social/rules talked about needing to be legal in both Germany and New Zealand but now it's just New Zealand. So now there's less restrictions not more or different.

Lemmy fixed the latency thing a few versions ago :)

Ah well, too late now 🙂 But I'll bear that in mind next year. Thanks!

So now there’s less restrictions not more or different.

Well, it is true that you are not legally required to inform members if New Zeeland jurisdiction was already in the ToS, but "less" in this case also means less legal protection for your members as the GDPR no longer applies directly.

Why, haven't they been told about Celsius yet?

Next you tell me they don't know what kilometers are, lol.

Wow, Hetzner, that's a big bump.

We have been told, and the scientific community uses it. But there are still a lot here that think it is communist bullshit.

I worked on scientific campuses for 25 years, I used C for everything at that time, but since leaving I have slowly slid back to F.

"think it is communist bullshit"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit#/media/File%3ACountries_that_use_Fahrenheit.svg

Considering this map of places that use it, everywhere except the US and a couple tiny islands would be "communist". lol

Didn't know communists were close to taking over all of the world in 2026. :p

scnr

whoosh

We use it in computers, for some reason.

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