I think I've donated once.. as enjoyers of FOSS we really should be better at paying for what we previously expected corporations to front the bill for. Thanks for all of your work.

Thank you for everything. I'm sorry I haven't donated regularly. When a decision is made I will.

Sorry to hear buddy. Best of luck

Really sorry to hear that, best wishes to you.

I would suggest opencollective, it's worked really well for us.

I’m not technical enough to know what to do but would contribute

Still not looking good, unfortunately. I just cross-posted something to !auspol@quokk.au, and when viewed on aussie.zone there's nothing on that community before my post for 3 months. In reality, there's dozens of posts on the community in that period.

Unfortunately it still seems off. I just submitted this 20 mins ago but it's not showing up on AZ.

I believe federation issues between AZ and quokk.au are due to the custom version of piefed they're running. Not that there are issues with it, but that it isn't being allowed by the whitelisting I've applied to restrict AI scraper bots.

I've made some changes to the whitelisting today, specifically for quokk.au... let me know if it helps.

Federation lag has significantly deteriorated in the last couple of days, with lemmy.world at least.

TIL! Thanks for your help and for making a great app for Lemmy!

In Mlem:

• “Profile” tab
• three dots button in the top-right of the screen
• “aussie.zone”

In this instance, Nath is wrong. He's been doing the heavy lifting for a long time, and I'm sure he knows it.

To be honest, I don't have time to give AZ the attention it really needs. And at some point I'll have had enough bankrolling most of it, and want to move on not worrying about it.

I'm not entirely sure how best to manage things when that day arrives. I'm open to ideas.

Probably caught up in restrictions I applied to protect AZ from AI bots scraping and breaking the site. Will take a look.

We both think the other does all the work on the site. 😃

Secretly you're both binchickens! Ty muchly.

Cheers for all you guys do! I keep assuming hosting costs probably rise for the instance due to storage and bandwidth costs.

Cheers! I don’t know how to get to the instance sidebar in the Mlem app, but good to know!

Our secret is two-fold:

1. The site is run by a couple of tech nerds with full-time jobs. This is not done for financial gain. We both think the other does all the work on the site. 😃
2. The biggest cost of these sorts of services is usually labour. And we get that for free.

You already replied/donated in the last nerd update post.

I can help a little,

Donation: Kofi

This link is always available in the instance sidebar, along with the original breakdown of instance costs. Its near the bottom. The costs have probably changed since that was written, but it'll be a fair indicator.

Yeah these are good points.

Unknown authors is what made me think of the idea. So many people don't read who its written by, and suddenly you'll realise you've read numerous articles by this person and never looked at their name.

I find the people that were going to upvote without reading will do that anyway.

Seems to be part of the scroll and roll way to use social media. I liken to reading the headlines of a newspaper, the upvote is the interactive part, a bit like turning the pages of a paper.

Generally I think it's a good idea but my doubts revolve around that

• it may be too much information, especially when the authors are unknown.
• it may encourage echo chamber type of reading, or just upvoting without reading because you like the author

I think today was the first time I actually posted something to an aussie.zone instance since making this post. And it seems that no, it's still not working.

https://quokk.au/c/australia@aussie.zone/p/994161/on-monday-27-july-2026-a-test-alert-will-be-sent-to-all-mobile-devices-in-australia

Testing, can you see this?

edit: no, they cannot.

More detailed update: the last post that did federate correctly was this one.

Interestingly, my comment on that one seems to not have federated successfully. See here. Unclear exactly what happened because the post itself federated, but I see exactly zero votes, not upvotes or downvotes, which makes it seem like there may have been a failure to federate fully.

That's a good question. I don't immediately have an answer for you, but I'll go back through my history to try and check. Unfortunately I haven't been super active on Lemmy/Piefed lately so there's not a huge amount of data to go on.

First thing I noticed was this thread: https://aussie.zone/post/33440103

My comments were clearly federating much more recently than my posts were. Though my latest comment (a reply to Dia's last reply to me) did not appear. That last issue might be unrelated, because I did see something from Mia about needing to restart the server recently. Not sure.

And my reply from az account federated right away too.