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Reddthat - Official Funding and Future Plans (Updated: 2024-03-20) (opencollective.com)
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Hello! It seems you have made it to our donation post.

Thankyou

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.

Current Recurring Donators on OpenCollective:

Current Total Amazing People on OpenCollective:

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 2024-08)

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 2024-08-08

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  • MentallyExhausted (๐ŸŒŸ)

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[โ€“] ticoombs@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hi All,

A mini-update hiding in the comments but I wanted to let you all know that today marks the day we hit double digits (10) of unique contributors! Especially the 2 who have committed to being a monthly contributor! You rock! ๐Ÿฅณ ๐Ÿ˜
(A little ninja en edit but we are now at 5 recurring donations. The post has been updated to reflect those amazing people. โ™ฅ )

Monthly donations will be the key in the long term sustainability of Reddthat. It will allow us to continue to improve Reddthat, create and run any bots the community needs, and keeping the server filled to the brim with the coffee it needs to serve you your pictures and posts as fast as it can!

I'm honestly amazed and flabbergasted that there are so many people in our community who want to help out, and have reached out.

Something that I will be performing in the future (a full announcement is scheduled in the next couple weeks depending when v0.18 of Lemmy that comes out), will be moving our picture storage from "local storage" to "object storage" at Backblaze. This will enable us to dedicate more resources to the database to allow for an extended period of keeping our costs to a minimal expenditure.

Thank you so much for your contributions in not only a financial sense but for sticking around, creating your communities and engaging in thoughtful discussions around what may be hard subjects to broach. Together we make this a pleasant & interesting place to be!

From the bottom of my heart,
Tiff <3

[โ€“] MuffinParadise@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Chipped in a bit to get us started, if this takes off as a viable reddit replacement I'll have no problem starting monthly payments to keep things running smoothly.

[โ€“] ticoombs@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you so much!

I've got some short term plans in getting an RSS & post bot working which should help with some extra content, but just sharing content, upvoting and being a part of the community is probably the best way to help make it feel like home

[โ€“] Stimmed@reddthat.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A quick question related to the DB, is the data broken into many smaller tables or is most data in one or two tables? If it is all in one, we may run into performance issues as soon as the DB becomes to large as queries run against whole tables unless promised really well.

[โ€“] ticoombs@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Great question! The data is broken up across a fair amount of tables so I think it's pretty much fine in that regard. Though the database is the current bottleneck and the Lemmy Devs have said they need to fix it as they are front end people they are not the best with databases.

Unfortunately we are at the behest of the Lemmy devs at the moment, and I'm sure there are issues as the big instances are really struggling.

But that isn't something we will really need to worry about until we 10x our db.

[โ€“] Stimmed@reddthat.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you for the answer. I have delt with scaling DBs with tons of data so the alarm bells were ringing. DBs tend to be fine up to a point and then fall over as soon as the isn't enough ram to cache the data and mask issues of the DB architecture. With the exponential growth of both users and content to cache, my gut tells me this will become a problem quickly unless some excellent coding is done on the back end to truncate remote instance data quickly.

Sadly I am better at breaking systems in wonderful ways than building systems for use, so I can't be too helpful other than to voice concerns about issues I have ran into before.

[โ€“] ticoombs@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

Hahahaha, are you me?

Yeah the db on the filesystem is double the size of it in memory, the current memory usage is about 200-300mb active for postgre. So I'm not worried about it too much.

There are big wins for sure in the database, and I'm for sure looking at the activity table when I get a few hours to myself. It keeps a log of; every like, from every user that the server federates with, and I think it's not efficient at all. Each row contains a huge amount of data when I'd expect it to be quite small.

But I digress. I haven't delved into the intricacies and I'm sure it's not as simple as I make it out to be. There will be lots of QoL work in 0.18 for sure so stay tuned. I'll be using this Announcement community for all of our big milestones and to keep everyone updated, as well as to crowd source solutions!

[โ€“] Demodorkon@reddthat.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Happy to chip in! Thanks for giving us refugees a home lol. This feels like the early days of Reddit all over again and Iโ€™m excited to be here.

[โ€“] ticoombs@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

It certainly is a great feeling, and the community is just nice all around. Thanks for chipping in!

[โ€“] MrShankles@reddthat.com 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

:( I'm forgettable, as per usual

Lol, I'm just giving ya a hard time; no offense intended! I just appreciate everything you do to keep this place going! Thank you, sincerely, and I'll probably throw a little more when my own chaos of life settles a bit. It's the least I can do, because I've truly enjoyed my time here :)

Edit: I just realized I donated after this post was created. I'm just dumb lol, but that's ok

[โ€“] ticoombs@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

Ah! You found out I'm not infallible! (Edited & Fixed it up)

[โ€“] pleasestopasking@reddthat.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for setting up this server!

[โ€“] ticoombs@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you for being here!

[โ€“] RIPSync@reddthat.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just sent $20. No idea what I'm doing but if it helps you all replace reddit then I'm game!

[โ€“] ticoombs@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you so much! ๐Ÿš€

[โ€“] doctortofu@reddthat.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sent some weird space bucks (outbucks? Lol) your way to keep this thing running, since it's my new home after the reddit fiasco. Looking forward to see it grow and prosper!

[โ€“] ticoombs@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

Thankyou for the space bucks! Let's keep that hype train going!