On Monday, June 26th, 2023 at 07:44:07 UTC, our esteemed host @self posted:

wanna see some code? c’mere

Federation came a few weeks later on 17 July. Our subs now have regulars from across Lemmy and Mastodon.

It’s been a wild party and we’re not stopping any time soon. Go wedgie a nerd today.

  • self@awful.systemsMEnglish
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    5 months ago

    🎉🎉🎉🎉 fuck yeah 🎉🎉🎉🎉

    the community we’ve built here is amazing, and it’s thanks to everyone who contributes that we’ve made it to a year!

    our instance has exceeded my wildest expectations, and it keeps pushing the boundaries of the technology that we use to host it. my initial thought behind starting this instance was “huh, I wonder how hard it’d be to deploy Lemmy on NixOS. maybe David and some of the SneerClub regulars would find it useful now that Reddit’s effectively dead?” and now we’re likely about to outlive NixOS’s relevancy (@self a year ago would be horrified at this) and one day soon we’ll even have a true Lemmy fork worth running. we’ve got so much in store for this instance, so let’s keep this party going!

    • flizzo@awful.systemsEnglish
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      5 months ago

      are we going to have to move to guix, I get rms toejam nightmares when I close too many parentheses

      • self@awful.systemsMEnglish
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        5 months ago

        I really hope not — I like Lisp, but a bunch of old gnu folks showed their whole ass every chance they got as things got worse in the nix community, and guix is nothing if not peak gnu. unfortunately we might have to stick with nix until either a viable replacement exists, or the packages we rely on fall so far out of maintenance it endangers the instance; at that point, guix might become the least bad option.

        I’m open to suggestions for other tools or ways forward, though I’m hoping I can keep us off of the set of devops tooling that’s documented mostly in the form of logrocket posts and other breathless SEO spam and gets actively painful to use as soon as you scale past example code, because I don’t particularly want administrating our instance to resemble my day job, where I only tolerate that horseshit because it pays. likewise, native is vastly preferred over containers.

          • self@awful.systemsMEnglish
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            5 months ago

            that was the loudest of the shitheads, yeah! god that was wild — he’s really just some fucker who decided I wasn’t smart enough to contribute to one of his projects who then decided to start reply guying to my posts about gnu being as toxic as nix with “you don’t know what you’re talking about, gnu would never be toxic”, and then shortly after started calling you a… German Nazi who must hate Polish people, because you disagreed with his shit takes about how Free Software means you must collaborate with fascists???

            by and large that’s been my experience with the folks in charge at gnu; their opinions and decisions have been beyond parody in how bad and fucking inept they’ve been. as far as I can tell that rot’s institutionalized in how the gnu project operates, and the project’s successes happen in spite of the efforts of the folks in charge.

            and this is the bullshit power structure that people go out of their way to Do Advocacy for (which itself is just reply guying; notably, FLOSS advocacy almost never helps the person who’s being advocated at actually do anything). I’d give so much for a software commons social structure that doesn’t empower mediocre little white men to be the biggest shitheads they can without repercussions.

    • V0ldek@awful.systemsEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Thank you for weilding the banhammer with grace and ruthlesness required to keep this community awesome.

      We appreciate your sacrifice.

    • Steve@awful.systemsEnglish
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      5 months ago

      I love this place and actually have to block myself from it in weekdays because it’s the only way I can get work done. I’m working hard on something that I hope to post to the FreeAssembly channel soon, though! Thanks for making this space and maintaining it so well.

      • self@awful.systemsMEnglish
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        5 months ago

        that’s an awesome compliment, thank you!

        I’ve got a couple of things nearing completion to post to freeasm too! it’s taken a bit longer than I’d hoped to get my code out there, but I’m really excited to see freeasm become a place where we can collaborate.

  • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
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    5 months ago

    happy birthday server, and thanks for all the hard work mods, developers/maintaners, commenters/posters and all you lurkers.

  • sinedpick@awful.systemsEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Much respect to @self for actually maintaining and hosting open infrastructure and the various moderators for preserving the vibe. Doing either as well as y’all are doing it is not easy. Thank you!

  • BigMuffin69@awful.systemsEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Cheers lads :) glad that we’ve found a new non reddit home (ty mods for all your hard work ;_; ) , here’s to another year of shit posts

  • jax@awful.systemsEnglish
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    5 months ago

    sneers to another year folks! 🥂 a big thanks to @self, all the admins, mods, regular contributors and lurkers alike!