Dropping by for another update:
There are still some updates and migrations left to do, but things are looking up, I think the worst is behind us.
Having said that, I’ll be taking the server offline now for the rest of the updates - hope this comment was properly propagated :D
Small update
So it’s been over 4 days of file transferring. There are about 13.6 million files in the source buckets, and yesterday we passed 14 million file checks.
So I’m guessing that means it needs to do multiple checks per file. I’m hoping it’s 2 checks per file, meaning the process is over half way.
The good news that most of the data has been transferred over (source shows 727GB used, destination shows 713 GB).
The bad news is that due to how the files are structured, it’s incredibly hard for the sync process to estimate which files it still has to move over, so it does need to check them all one-by-one.
Ironically, me posting this image above would mean there’s 1 file more that has to be synced over. But I’m willing to let it be a casualty of this war ;)
I’ll leave that to the reddit moderators and community to decide. There are thresholds in place to ensure they have time to filter out illegal material before it gets crossposted.
And again, so far no original poster has reported any posts on these bases. But I have no qualms with taking it down if they do.
It’s noble of you to want to protect those people, but the moment they post content to reddit, they have given reddit the right to duplicate and redistribute their content as it sees fit. So the way I see it, that ship has sailed, and I’m pretty sure most creators are aware of this.
Having said that, if someone ever reports they want to take their content offline, I’ll gladly do so. So far, that hasn’t happened yet though.
Edited to add: the lemmit service doesn’t even copy most content, only relatively small (animated) images. On account of storage (and processing) larger files costs money. So most content is hotlinked. That means that when the original is removed from Reddit, it’s removed from lemmy as well.
I might have been inclined to agree with you, if the posts themselves didn’t include all the attribution and other data that is on the reddit posts themselves.
How do you feel this robs from content creators, rather than giving them more exposure? It’s not redistributing any content that’s behind a paywall, for example.
These communities were deemed too interactive (mostly invoking discussion with OP or the community) for Lemmit, and will not be receiving updates from the bot.
All right, the server has been updated to the latest stable version.
I initially intended to leave it running for a few hours to make sure everything is stable, but somewhere along the server reboots, the bot got activated once more and errr, well… it’s been posting happily for some time now.
I guess that answers my question whether or not it’s still compatible with the new server version.