🧠 Another month, another reminder.

💵 I've just upload the services invoices for past month:

💸 14,11€ Amazon AWS: https://opencollective.com/jvm-social/expenses/253783

💸 8,23€ Hetzner: https://opencollective.com/jvm-social/expenses/253782

🙏 Huge thanks to those that have helped with any amount of money to the server maintenace: @vmj @tonivade @dgomezg @hawkesnest @petrovicky

💪 I really feel like they are too few brave fellows considering the server have 51 "active users" (whatever it means from the server point of view, but at least 40 logged in last week and +20 daily). Come on! If you feel it's useful or just you think itś good to have a independent server instead of centralized and controlled, be part of it.

👁️ Remember that you can check where every cent goes looking at https://opencollective.com/jvm-social

Thank you!!

👋 Hello!

There are some new faces who have joined us in the past few weeks, so first of all—welcome to the server!

📰 I assume you read this when you joined, but just as a reminder: we're a server devoted to developers, especially JVM developers. You can find the rules at https://jvm.social/about (there’s also a link to contribute financially, if you can, and see exactly where every cent goes). Keeping this up and running isn’t expensive, but it does cost some money.

ℹ️ Now, a message to all users: I’ve just set up a Mastodon/Fediverse relay. You may be wondering what the heck that is. Basically, it’s a way to bring in traffic from other servers and help you discover new accounts. Your timeline will become more active, and hopefully, you’ll get better and more diverse content.

👓 As of now, only two servers are connected to this relay: ours and https://foojay.social — another server with very similar interests. I hope you all find it useful. Maybe other servers will join soon as well.

ℹ️ Some updates from the server side:

🙏 The usual monthly reminder: This server is supported by individual contributors who help with small amount of money to it.

🔝 Thank you, thank you very much to @vmj @dgomezg @tonivade @hawkesnest @petrovicky for your contributions. This server runs because of you, no just me.

I've just upload invoices from April: 12.66€ for AWS and 8.23€ for Hetznet.As always, you can check every donation and expenses in out OpenCollective page: https://opencollective.com/dashboard/jvm-social

📰 I've just upgrade the mastodon instance to latest version (also the operating system kernel so I rebooted the server -sorry for that 2 minutes downtime-) and also changed the limit for posts from the default 500 chars to 2500. Why? Because I can 😃

Tell me what do you thing about that change.

And the usual monthly (or bi-monthly) reminder:

ℹ️ This server is supported by individual contributors who help with small amount of money to it.

🙏 Thank you, thank you very much to @vmj @dgomezg @tonivade @hawkesnest @petrovicky for your contributions. This server runs because of you, no just me.

I've just upload invoices from February and March: 14.97€ + 12.35€ for AWS and 8.23€ * 2 for Hetznet. 31.22€ still in the account. That goes down quickly.

Check it out at https://opencollective.com/jvm-social/transactions

Sorry for the spam, bit I think it's worth to mention this:

This year it's the 30th Java Anniversary. I am member of the Madrid Java User Group and we're working on JMad (https://jmad.madridjug.es/), a openspace/unconference to be celebrated next May 17th in Madrid.

There's a small fee to cover lunch and venue.

If you live in Madrid, there are no excuses for you. If you come from outside I guess you'll enjoy it.

Come to celebrate with us!

Server updated to latest 4.3.3.

Server software also updated.

And server also rebooted, that never do harm from time to time.