kɜ:ʳ @chr@cybre.space

hey y'all, i'm no longer reachable on discord if you had my info there previously. if you need to get in contact with me, i'm @chr:cybre.space on matrix, @chr1x on wire, or you can email me at chr@cybre.space (or admin@cybre.space if you want to reach @nightpool as well)

hi i'm chr and its my life mission to boost every dragon

got quite a few new folks here today, welcome! your admins here at cybre.space are myself and @nightpool, you can read the instance rules at http://cybre.space/about/more, and likes ⭐ are florps here. if you have any questions, feel free to ask! happy pinging!

the ghost in the machine sounds like a pretty spooky guy

2 updates:

1. email should be working now, so if you signed up for an account on https://matrix.cybre.space recently and had to leave the email field blank, you should be able to add one to your account now

2. i've done several things to mitigate performance issues on the server (including disabling online/offline status aka presence) and it seems to have stabilized. i'm still keeping a close eye on it so please let me know if you experience issues with messages not sending or long delays

cybre.space user @ io's account has been disabled. we have zero tolerance here for sexualization of underage people, which includes lolicon art. if you have a problem with that i recommend moving somewhere else.

there's been a recurring issue with the cybre.space matrix over the last few days, where the server will stop processing messages at seemingly random intervals.

i suspect it's a bug in the latest version synapse, but i need more information to know what's going on. i've just set up a metrics tracking thingy that gives me a lot more insight into what the server is doing, so i'll be able to find out more next time it happens.

tl;dr matrix issues not permanently fixed, but soon hopefully

just gonna leave this sql query here in case anyone else needs to work around the moderation interface's lack of ability to answer the question "who here follows who on that instance"

SELECT a1.username, a2.username FROM follows JOIN accounts a1 ON a1.id=target_account_id JOIN accounts a2 ON a2.id=account_id WHERE a1.domain='example.com';

the cybre.space matrix hit a bug which smells a lot like https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8220, which luckily was fixed in synapse 1.20.0 (the latest version, released yesterday). i've upgraded so hopefully things should be fixed now, there might be a delay in matrix federation while things catch up

maintenance is complete, and the matrix server is back online. thanks for your patience!

maintenance is ongoing; i'm migrating the database to its own server node and upgrading it to a new postgres version in the process. the matrix database is quite large so this is slow going.

the cybre.space matrix server will be going down for maintenance at 2pm PDT (in 3 minutes) for a bit, hopefully not longer than an hour

hey folks --

this doesn't affect anyone already here, but i've decided to stop doing semi-open registrations on cybre.space via patreon/liberapay donations.

this was originally put in place as a way for us to keep getting funding even after wide open registrations were closed. however, we've been okay on funding for a while now and the community has grown pretty large over time.

the patreon registrations aren't a huge volume of new users but cybre.space has nonetheless steadily grown over the last year or two. at this point we're about at the maximum size we're comfortable with moderating.

we will continue to allow registration by personal invite, so if you have a friend you'd like to join fedi you can still feel free to invite them here

your continued support is much appreciated. thanks, and have a wonderful day!

since viomi was unwilling to listen to the people most affected by the situation with Mint and admit that shiv was causing further harm with ver actions earlier today, ver account here has been locked. being nominally anti‐racist or having some BIPOC in support of your actions doesn’t give you a free pass to ignore the voices of the BIPOC most affected by the events at hand, and in this case those people were not being listened to.

please reach out to @LadyKIBI, @nightpool and myself if you have questions about this decision

just use tusky folks. if you're reading this and you wanted to use husky because the upstream app blocks gab / spinster, let me know and i'll swiftly escort you to our blocklist

boop

the internet had our old phone number, i'm trying to give it the new one but it takes a really long time to write it down

decided to move off of cloudflare DNS due to centralization and single point of failure concerns, as well as minor privacy concerns

we used to use our own DNS server, which worked fine, but while we were on cloudflare i moved that DNS server to a new host (with a new IP) and forgot to update the glue records

so the glue records are pointing at the old IP, which means that until the .SPACE authority's cache is refreshed, DNS queries for cybre.space and subdomains will have a bootstrapping problem and be unable to resolve

...i may have spoke too soon

depending on your dns caching settings cybre.space might have been unavailable there for a little bit

if it wasn't, don't worry about it

if it was, i think i fixed it

phew

hey anyone who uses Matrix through the cybre.space homeserver from the web client (https://matrix.cybre.space), heads up that we just upgraded to the latest version of Riot where they rebranded as Element. it's the same thing as Riot, just with a different name (they wanted to be able to trademark the name to prevent use by bad actors).

so other than the name and icon (and some minor UI changes) Element is Riot. nothing else changed.