ddh

I’d also wager the proportion of human users is much higher on Lemmy.

But in addition to what happened to Yahoo, Meta’s platforms also use the network effect to keep users. Once the tide turns and the network effect is stronger elsewhere the userbase may quickly evaporate, like what happened to MySpace.

Welcome to Lemmy, where the comments are made up and the points don’t matter

FWIW I run only very small databases e.g., sqlite ones shipped with applications, but haven’t had any problems in about a year now, and nothing that wasn’t recoverable from backup.

Correct, I run docker on a compute host that has no local storage. The host’s disks are on iSCSI LUNs.

Interesting. Active users in decline, posts and comments on the up.

What’s high availability to you? There’s an increasing cost.

Anyway, I have a similar setup. NAS for storage and OptiPlex Proxmox nodes for compute. But I went a different route and set up an iSCSI SAN and all the guests use block storage on the NAS. Guest backups by Proxmox go to file storage on the NAS and backed up to a second NAS.

If you do set up a RAG store, please post the tech stack you use as I’m in a similar situation. The inbuilt document store management in ollama+openwebui is a bit clunky.

I’d be interested to see how it goes. I’ve deployed Ollama plus Open WebUI on a few hosts and small models like Llama3.2 run adequately (at least as fast as I can read) on even an old i5-8500T with no GPU. Oracle Cloud free tier might work OK.

Running an LLM can certainly be an on-demand service. Apart from training, which I don’t think we are discussing, GPU compute is only used while responding to prompts.

A while back there was some issue with the Lemmy code and people kept being served posts that were over 6 months old. Peple started replying and the original posters were often “wow, you found my post!” It was kind of awesome.

Cupboard + DiskStation + OptiPlex = Win

Tailscale is available as an official DSM package, so if it’s only you accessing it you could still block it from the Internet.

Jellyfin is also available as a native DSM package through SynoCommunity, FWIW.

I’m interested in how you like Ceph.

My setup is similar, using a DS1522+ volume as shared block storage for an iSCSI SAN for three Proxmox nodes. Two nodes are micro PCs and the third is running on the 1522+. There’s a DS216j for backups.

Also make sure the Synology has enough RAM for what you want to do.

Seconded. Software RAID is much easier to recover from.

I run both for a similar reason. It’s the same library, point both services at it and you have more choice of apps. Yet another benefit to self hosting.

And Switzerland just closed their instance in part due to what they claim is a declining user base.

I’ve only seen Mastodon slowly creeping up, not decline.

“We’ve also closed the wheelchair ramps as the stairs are more popular.”

Sometimes avoiding corporatism or maintaining your privacy feels like an accessibility issue (I’m looking at you, open source projects who direct their community to Discord).