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We created Reddthat for the purposes of creating a community, that can be run by the community. We did not want it to be something that is moderated, administered and funded by 1 or 2 people.

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Background

In one of very first posts titled “Welcome one and all” we talked about what our short term and long term goals are.
In 7 days since starting, we have already federated with over 700 difference instances, have 24 different communities and over 250 users that have contributed over 550 comments. So I think we’ve definitely achieved our short term goals, and I thought this was going to take closer to 3 months to get these types of numbers!

We would like to first off thank everyone for being here, subscribing to our communities and calling Reddthat home!

Donation Links (Updated 2024-12)

Current Plans:

  • Create our own production Lemmy builds with cherry picked commits to help with the long load times.
  • In April 2025 we are renewing our server hosting for the next 12 months. At that point in time we will evaluate if we can scale down to a more cost effective instance.

Annual Costings:

Our current costs are

  • Domain: 15 Euro (~$25 AUD)
  • Server: $897.60 Usd (~$1365 AUD)
  • EU Server: 39 Euro (~$64 AUD)
  • Wasabi Object Storage: $72 Usd (~$111 AUD)
  • Total: ~1565 AUD per year (~$130.42/month)

That’s our goal. That is the number we need to achieve in funding to keep us going for another year.

Cheers,
Tiff

PS. Thank you to our donators! Your names will forever be remembered by me: Last updated on 2024-12-04

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    12 hours ago

    What’s the difference between the server and eu server? That price difference is kinda huge

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      12 hours ago

      The eu server is a tiny batching proxy which is for accepting all of Lemmy World’s activities.

      I’ve talked about in my a couple previous updates. Lemmy (used to) send all activities sequentially, and because LW was in EU and we are in AU the network latency was 200-300ms depending on routing and response time. This meant that if LW created more than 3 requests per second we wouldn’t be able to process them fast enough and would eventually fall behind. Which is exactly what happened. At one point we were up to 7 days behind from LW.
      The batcher/queue service accepts 100 activities and then forwards them to our server. And because it takes next to no time at all to process them we easily caught up with LW.

      The main server is where everything runs.