Hey everyone! Figured I would do an AMA to kick off some activity in the IAmA community over here. Feel free to throw down some questions below and ill answer them
I’m currently a student in university and have been doing both web development and game development recently (web for internships, game on my own). Out of the four admins ive been the one mainly handling community creation and managing in the instance to make sure everythings running smoothly
Some other misc topics that I can answer about: I compose music & make pixel art, and my favorite games are minecraft, SCP:SL, everhood, battlerite, and metal slug 3
If anyone else wants to do an AMA feel free to start one up in the community (assuming it fits the instance). Any activity helps get the ball rolling for getting it active
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Thanks for hosting us, my question is directly related: What kind of hardware do you use for hosting the instance? Is it local or in some cloud? Where do you think lemmys biggest issues will be when it comes to scaling?
The first question there I cant really answer since I dont deal with hosting (the other admins are the ones doing that) but I think its on a VPS. In terms of issues with scaling, that will be from smaller instances interacting with larger ones. If theres a small instance with around 10 people that federates and gets content from all the communities in the bigger instances it would need more resources than usual due to all the content coming in that is needs to handle and store. That then expanded for all of the different small instances can get to be a bit much for all of them. Things that can prevent that though is people in the same instance subscribing to the same things (since it already got that content so it doesnt need to get it again for the other person) and not subscribing to everything you see
do u eat pizza sometimes
yes
Omg
What got you interested in programming (or tech in general)? And what was your first language/programming experience?
The first thing that got me interested was mainly on the game dev side. In grades 5 & 6 a lot of people in my class would make games on scratch and then play each others stuff. There was also someone in my class who was making stuff like a website, etc. that I thought looked really cool so wanted to start doing my own stuff similar to that. Then when I was in grade 7 there was two main games that were popular and developed primarily by one person each (Undertale by Toby Fox and Five Nights at Freddys by Scott Cawthon). Seeing and enjoying those games started making me think that if they can do it then I can too so I starting doing a bunch of things relating to programming.
For tech in general it would be playing warcraft 3 when I was 5
What security concerns do the admins have regarding operation of the instance? How have you dealt with them?
Out of the things I can talk about the main issue has mostly been the threat of spam + upvote bots from other instances due to federation. We have an application process to stop bots but since we federate with everyone by default someone can spin up an instance or hijack a lower security instance and just fill it with bots to then interact with posts here. It hasnt happened yet thankfully but if it becomes a problem we will likely have to start defederating with botted instances (someone made a nice tool to call out suspicious ones that I dont have the link to on me right now but it exists) and in the future I might be able to get in some sort of mechanism on the site to auto detect botted upvotes
have you or any of the team, talk with programming mods in reddit to move here?
Outside of the subreddits we ran not really. The mod of r/indiedev was talking about possibly setting up links to alternative communities so I told them about it but for the most part weve just let subreddit mods and users migrate on their own if they want. The main people I did reach out to was the godot team (as im the main mod for the godot community here) to get the lemmy community in the godot communities page on their website but havent heard anything back from them
- How old are you?
- What is your favorite breakfast?
- What is the name of your first pet?
- What is the name of your first teacher?
- Age: 21
- Breakfast: aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g/dj1kUXc0dzlXZ1hjUQ==
- Pet: nUE0pUZ6Yl93q3phrJ91qUIvMF5wo20iq2S0L2t/qw1xHKp0qmyKM1uwHD==
- Teacher: 2w#_4w|e{Jhb5b4F6(h`5w’:+$d;3a_G5au_*a8^5;`<&)4_5K=)+`9;&"ll
