Hello friends, the dev team is ready to set up the new Lemmy instance for testing purposes. We're taking the relaunch as an opportunity to redo our infrastructure while we're at it.
Unfortunately I'm the only active infrastructure person and I can't do this by myself, hence this post. If you're good at & have experience with infrastructure-type things, DevOps, etc, please reach out to me on Matrix (@layla:chapo.chat).
Where I'm currently at: I have a rough proposal of what the future infrastructure should look like, i.e. the servers we're going to need, where services will live, etc.
Immediate need: People to review the above plan, give constructive criticism, etc.
Near-future need: People who are going be able to help actually set up the infrastructure.
Talking with the admins, we are in agreement that due to the sensitive nature of this topic, if you want to be involved, you will need to either (a) be trusted, or (b) go through some sort of vetting process and have a long-time user vouch for you.
So yeah! If you're ready to commit time to this, please reach out, we can't progress until people do.
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Edit: If you want to reach out and Matrix isn't working DM me your Matrix ID here and I'll start the chat because that seems to work. Alternatively my Discord is not_layla#5041. I'll reach out to people in a few hours time
@blashork works in DevOps and has some experience with this stuff
i can vouch for her, she's my girlfriend
(we met on this site not long after launch :D)i am posting this on her behalf as she's.. unable to post right now :)
funnily enough, she posted a looking for players thing for her pathfinder game and the rest is history
all i'm saying is c/games > c/dating
i am posting this on her behalf as she’s… unable to post right now :)
:volcel-judge: Stop right there, comrade!
(we met on this site not long after launch :D)
That is genuinely adorable
we met on this site not long after launch :D
another /c/dating success story :che-poggers:
:blob-no-thoughts: I have no tech skills, but thank you for your service :monke-beepboop:
Not wanting to add to the clutter of the thread so using this to reply, thank you to our fantastic dev team we love you :penguin-love:
Godspeed to our fantastic dev team, current and future :fidel-salute-big: I'm psyched as hell for the relaunch!
don’t spend it on microdosing acid to make yourself more productive
This x:10000-com:. Go big or go home losers.
I've done some sysadmin stuff for fun, and I've been a mod for a while. I've got plenty of linux experience. I should be able to help with some of the grunt work!
I can help, getting an error trying to message you cross server on matrix tho
What's your Matrix ID? I will upgrade the chapo.chat homeserver later but for now it seems to work when I intiate chats
I wish my programming experience was in something Hexbear actually uses.
Best of luck.
I’m not sure if I can promise much more, but I have devops experience (currently working only in .Net) with k8s, docker, vagrant in aws and azure. If I can help by reviewing some plans or yaml I would love to
I don't know the first thing about infrastructure so I'm not sure just how sensitive the work is, but it might be safer to just go ahead and put everyone on this team through the vetting process. Group self-crit, we're not immune to the cliquish nature of niche internet communities and that's a potential vulnerability.
My large son tells me he's good with the cyber. I'm going to get Melania to stop breastfeeding him like in that Gambo Throne episode and he can help, believe me.
