cross-posted from: https://walledgarden.xyz/post/2295733

Hello again All,

I’d like to get everyone up to speed on what’s been going on with walledgarden.xyz and where it’s going in the near future. I’ll keep this as brief as I can but there’s a lot to cover. TLDR at the bottom.

First and most important- As of March 1st 2025 WG will effectively shut down. Local communities will be locked but the instance will stay open for at least all of March so that local users have time to migrate their accounts.

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• Why? What does this mean? WG was initially set up as a private instance to learn about and experiment with Lemmy. With that mindset a lot of things were tested on the live instance before we started hosting communities and users. A new instance or test environment should've been put in place back then, but it wasn't. That's on me and I apologize. Many of these things are difficult or impossible to reverse while the instance is available to the public and are causing stability problems for the users and communities we host. This isn't the experience we want to offer. The difficult decision was made to shutter this instance and start fresh on a new one. We decided that it would be better to offer people a new alternative that doesn't suffer from the same problems we have on WG before the communities or user numbers grow any larger. WG will eventually become the test environment for the new instance.

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• What happens to the users and communities you host? The local users are who will suffer the most from this and for that I am genuinely sorry. Local users will have until at least the end of March to migrate before any kind of reset is done. This should offer plenty of time to get your new accounts setup. If anyone is having trouble shoot me a DM and I'll do whatever I can to help out. Our current users are welcome to join us on the new instance- https://crazypeople.online/. The last few days have been spent launching and populating that instance with new versions of the communities you’re used to seeing around WG. Here’s a list of our local communities and their new homes:

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• Garden Grooves is now The Eternal Playlist: https://crazypeople.online/c/eternalplaylist !eternalplaylist@crazypeople.online
• weedtime has moved here: https://crazypeople.online/c/weedtime !weedtime@crazypeople.online
• Low Effort Memes has moved here: https://crazypeople.online/c/loweffortmemes !loweffortmemes@crazypeople.online
• Pokemon TCGM has moved here: https://crazypeople.online/c/pokemonTCGM !pokemonTCGM@crazypeople.online
• Community Corkboard is now CPO Announcements: https://crazypeople.online/c/cpo_announcements !cpo_announcements@crazypeople.online
• Auto Racing has moved here: https://crazypeople.online/c/autoracing !autoracing@crazypeople.online

I encourage those of you who previously participated in our communities to join us again at our new home.

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One final thing to note is that crazypeople.online will not be federated with lemmy.world until after they complete their upgrade. That could be any day now unless they push the date back. The older version of Lemmy they run can cause problems for smaller instances that I’d like to avoid on the new one. This decision isn’t meant to be political or controversial and is based strictly on performance goals.

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TLDR

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• WG is becoming a test instance.
• Users have until at least March 31st 2025 to migrate.
• Replacements for our communities have already been set up at https://crazypeople.online/.
• crazypeople.online will be our public facing instance going forward, open to old WG members and anyone else who needs a place to call home.
• crazypeople.online won’t be federated with lemmy.world until their planned update.
• Don’t test in production.

cross-posted from: https://walledgarden.xyz/post/2295733

Hello again All,

I’d like to get everyone up to speed on what’s been going on with walledgarden.xyz and where it’s going in the near future. I’ll keep this as brief as I can but there’s a lot to cover. TLDR at the bottom.

First and most important- As of March 1st 2025 WG will effectively shut down. Local communities will be locked but the instance will stay open for at least all of March so that local users have time to migrate their accounts.

---

• Why? What does this mean? WG was initially set up as a private instance to learn about and experiment with Lemmy. With that mindset a lot of things were tested on the live instance before we started hosting communities and users. A new instance or test environment should've been put in place back then, but it wasn't. That's on me and I apologize. Many of these things are difficult or impossible to reverse while the instance is available to the public and are causing stability problems for the users and communities we host. This isn't the experience we want to offer. The difficult decision was made to shutter this instance and start fresh on a new one. We decided that it would be better to offer people a new alternative that doesn't suffer from the same problems we have on WG before the communities or user numbers grow any larger. WG will eventually become the test environment for the new instance.

---

• What happens to the users and communities you host? The local users are who will suffer the most from this and for that I am genuinely sorry. Local users will have until at least the end of March to migrate before any kind of reset is done. This should offer plenty of time to get your new accounts setup. If anyone is having trouble shoot me a DM and I'll do whatever I can to help out. Our current users are welcome to join us on the new instance- https://crazypeople.online/. The last few days have been spent launching and populating that instance with new versions of the communities you’re used to seeing around WG. Here’s a list of our local communities and their new homes:

---

• Garden Grooves is now The Eternal Playlist: https://crazypeople.online/c/eternalplaylist !eternalplaylist@crazypeople.online
• weedtime has moved here: https://crazypeople.online/c/weedtime !weedtime@crazypeople.online
• Low Effort Memes has moved here: https://crazypeople.online/c/loweffortmemes !loweffortmemes@crazypeople.online
• Pokemon TCGM has moved here: https://crazypeople.online/c/pokemonTCGM !pokemonTCGM@crazypeople.online
• Community Corkboard is now CPO Announcements: https://crazypeople.online/c/cpo_announcements !cpo_announcements@crazypeople.online
• Auto Racing has moved here: https://crazypeople.online/c/autoracing !autoracing@crazypeople.online

I encourage those of you who previously participated in our communities to join us again at our new home.

---

One final thing to note is that crazypeople.online will not be federated with lemmy.world until after they complete their upgrade. That could be any day now unless they push the date back. The older version of Lemmy they run can cause problems for smaller instances that I’d like to avoid on the new one. This decision isn’t meant to be political or controversial and is based strictly on performance goals.

---

TLDR

---

• WG is becoming a test instance.
• Users have until at least March 31st 2025 to migrate.
• Replacements for our communities have already been set up at https://crazypeople.online/.
• crazypeople.online will be our public facing instance going forward, open to old WG members and anyone else who needs a place to call home.
• crazypeople.online won’t be federated with lemmy.world until their planned update.
• Don’t test in production.

TLDR- Is there another/better way to purge communities from the database besides doing it one at a time from the webui?

I tried getting a list of communities with curl by adding subscribers_local=0 to the string since that's how they show up in the DB but it doesn't seem to be recognized at all, and the request returns all communities that meet the other criteria. That pretty much kills purging via API since I would have to do it one at a time and manually compile the list...Is there a better/faster/less manual way to somehow purge communities based on that criteria besides finding them from the webui and purging them one at a time? This is for hundreds of communities so any level of automation would help.

Sorry, I completely forgot to announce !pokemonTCGP@walledgarden.xyz here when I launched it.

Now trading is here and we're having fun swapping cards. Come check us out!

Bonus Links

!pokemonTCGM@walledgarden.xyz

https://walledgarden.xyz/c/pokemonTCGM

I've been enjoying playing the new mobile pokemon game enough that I decided to spin up a community on WG for it.

!pokemonTCGM@walledgarden.xyz is a new space to share what's happening on your adventure to collect them all! So far I've been sharing some of the pulls I've been getting and a couple of us have been chatting about the game.

More people are always welcome to join in the conversation with their own pulls, questions, comments, etc. See you around!

Preemptively going to add that I already know other pokemon communities exist on the fediverse that can and probably do cover this game. I have no interest in merging with them or anything like that. I'm ok with this community never being popular as a trade off for me to post things that might be too spammy for other communities.

!gardengrooves@walledgarden.xyz

TLDR I've been thinking about moving my music posting to my own instance for a long time and decided to finally do it.

GG is spiritually/functionally the same as SJ was but now I don't have account hop to make sure things like reports are being seen reliably.

If you were part of the old community you are welcome to continue posting on the new one. If you've never heard of either place you're invited to check out Garden Grooves and share whatever music you enjoy. If you hate potentially seeing a bunch of music links maybe blocking the community is more your thing.

Whatever you do, enjoy it!

cross-posted from: https://walledgarden.xyz/post/621211

!loweffortmemes@walledgarden.xyz is now available for all your half baked meme ideas.

You know how it is- you're sitting on the toilet crafting the finest memes the lemmiverse has ever seen when another idea strikes. It's funny to you, but would anyone else laugh?

Fuck it, who cares. Post it to !loweffortmemes@walledgarden.xyz and see how it goes.