Sal

@Sal@mander.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Supporting Mander⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  An instance for nature and science related content. It is intended to be an instance to share photos of nature, scientific articles, ask about plants, science-related hobbies, etc. I make some effort to avoid politics and charged topics, although some small amount is tolerated, mostly because it is difficult to always enforce this without being too aggressive with moderation.

  Here is the side bar:

  An instance dedicated to nature and science.
  
  We follow Lemmy’s code of conduct.
  
  Please be respectful to each other.
  
  The main focus of this instance is the natural sciences, and the scope encompasses all of the STEM fields.
  
  Please keep politics to a minimum. When science is the focus, intersection with politics may be tolerated as long as the discussion is constructive and science remains the focus. As a general rule, political content posted directly to the instance’s local communities is discouraged and may be removed. You can of course engage in political discussions in non-local communities.
  
  As a member of the fediverse, you can create your account here and interact with any other federated community!
  
  To find communities all over the Lemmyverse you can use a community browser such as: https://lemmyverse.net/communities
  
  To fetch a community, simply copy and paste the community’s URL into the search box in Mander.
  
  

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Supporting Mander⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey! Thanks a lot for offering help with this, and I am happy to hear that you like it here :D

  Financially: At the moment I am paying approximately ~$60 per month for the instance, which is an amount that I am more than happy to contribute to the fediverse in addition to donations to the dev team. If you have the means and want to contribute, my suggestion is to donate directly to the development: join-lemmy.org/donate

  As for other kinds of help: Moderating a community (or communities) is a lot of help. Users are free to create their own communities or can reach out to me and I can make them a moderator in any of the communities I moderate 🙂

• Issue with the images on the site
  Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ to ⁨mander@mander.xyz⁩ | ⁨0⁩ ⁨comments⁩
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Haha SO TRUE!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Haha So True!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨STOP. IDING. PLANTS.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Careful. Big Taxonomy doesn’t mess around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I feel like laying an egg.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hahahahaha

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whenever I follow an external link, I'm not logged in.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have tested this and it happens with other instances as well, so it it is not mander-specific.

  I am not sure why this happens… In my browser I even get fully logged out when I do this, unless I return to a previously open tab where I am logged in. So, maybe it is related to the behavior of the authentication cookie. Not sure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Lemmy an effective alternative to Reddit?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  🙌 ❤️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honey⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm… Some lichen make use of orobatid mite labour in order to disperse the cells of their photobionts. Are those still ok?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨posts blackholed on the onion instance⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for pointing this out… I am very sorry that this happened. I have not tested the .onion front-end much.

  Sorry for missing this post, I was traveling during holidays last month.

  The server that is serving the .onion front-end is running only that service, and so I doubt it is ever under heavy load. I am not sure if this was a problem with the onion network itself, with the front-end, or the instance. When I looked into options I could not find examples of Lemmy instances using .onion front-ends and I picked the one I did because it does not require JavaScript.

  I will make an effort to use the .onion site myself more often and I will look for other options.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I constantly get errors loading images.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have changed rate limits / timeouts that I can control, but I still see that this happens when I clear my browser cookies and load the front page. I agree that it is quite bothersome. I will need to dive deeper and get in touch with the object store provider again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I constantly get errors loading images.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you. There was a different error that should have been fixed yesterday (a “too many requests” reply from the object storage provider). But this error is different, and I am not sure yet why it happens. I will change some settings that could have an effect. Please let me know if it happens again!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lots of 429s and broken images from mander.xyz⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Should be fixed now!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tell me Y⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Good news! Just got a reply from them and they have increased the connection limit. They did not specify what the new number is, but hopefully it is high enough to not be an issue for the foreseeable future.

  So, if you do run into other similar reports after this comment I would appreciate it if you tag me again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tell me Y⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks!

  Cost is not the bottleneck in this case… The problem is that I am rather ignorant about the options and their benefits/limitations. Moving the images the first time was painfully slow because of those same rate limits, and I expect the next migration to be the same, so I want to make a better choice next time and would rather find a solution with the current provider 😅

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tell me Y⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the heads up. I am still trying to resolve this without a migration… I will try again to get a response from them as they have not replied in a week.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lots of 429s and broken images from mander.xyz⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If I am not given the ability to improve the rate limits soon I will need to find a different object storage provider. The migration will bring down the instance’s images for several days so I am trying to avoid that…

  If anyone knows of a good and reliable object storage provider with better limits, I would appreciate the recommendations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cats are liars.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the current status:

  • The instance is serving the images via object storage. Specifically, I am making use of Contabo to save and serve the images.

  • I now know that the default limits are 250 requests / second and 80 Mbit/s: help.contabo.com/…/103000275478-what-limits-are-t…

  • It appears to me like when the requests are exceeded, the “Too many requests” error is triggered and it takes a few seconds before the requests are accepted again. This can happen if few users access the front page at once as this will fetch all of the thumbnails and icons on the page.

  • I have been in touch with Contabo’s customer support via e-mail. But they mis-understood my original e-mails and thought I was speaking about increasing the maximum number of images that can be stored (3 million by default). I have clarified that I want to increase the rate limit and have been waiting for their response for a few days now.

  • The other solution would be to move the images to a different object storage provider. The migration is also limited to the 250 requests/s and 80 Mbit/s, so it will require turning off the images for 4 - 7 days while all the images are moved… Since I am not familiar with the policies of other object storage providers I would also need to do research to avoid falling into the same trap.

  So, I am hoping that Contabo’s support will get back to me soon and allow me to increase the rate limits, as this would be the most straight forward approach.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shitposting as public pedagogy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And you are doing a great job at that! 😄

  Very interesting article, thanks for sharing. I agree that it is a good one to pin!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Old AF⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have been reaching out to the object storage provider to see if I can increase the rate limits… Unfortunately I might need to change to a different provider to overcome this. Since the migration takes several days, especially so because of those same rate limits, I would rather avoid this…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hogs⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s an error I had not seen before, but I also just encountered with this specific post. I will investigate, thanks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cats are liars.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This error is a rate limit from the object storage provider. I did not know of this limit when I chose them, and I still have not found a way to change the limit. I will send them an e-mail. If the limit can’t be increased, one option is to pick another object storage provider, but the migration takes days.

• Prey specificity of predatory venomsonlinelibrary.wiley.com ↗
  Submitted ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩ | ⁨0⁩ ⁨comments⁩
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mod Post: Sorry for spam!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you for being alert! I have banned them instance-wide now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Putting Mander on Canvas!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ahh, wish I could join you! But I am travelling these days. Enjoy Canvassing!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨kbin.social federation issue⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Checking back in. Still not working :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Money, please!⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Publishing in a more prestigious journal usually means that your work will be read by a greater number of people. The journal that a paper is published on carries weight on the CV, and it is a relevant parameter for committees reviewing a grant applicant or when evaluating an academic job applicant.

  Someone who is able to fund their own research can get away with publishing to a forum, or to some of the Arxivs without submitting to a journal. But an academic that relies on grants and benefits from collaborations is much more likely to succeed in academia if they publish in academic journals. It is not necessarily that academics want to rely on publishers, but it is often a case of either you accept and adapt to the system or you don’t thrive in it.

  It would be great to find an alternative that cuts the middle man altogether. It is not a simple matter to get researchers to contribute their high-quality work to a zero-prestige experimental system, nor is it be easy to establish a robust community-driven peer-review system that provides a filtering capacity similar to that of prestigious journals. I do hope some alternative system manages to get traction in the coming years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This instance is flyiiing (super fast)!⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you for the feedback!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Version update and server upgrade!⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Great to hear! Thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elsevier⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s really cool, I will use it