Somnius :server_tiger:

Server tiger for https://merveilles.town. Questions about the instance? Contact me at hello(at)merveilles.town.

Achromatic, audiophile, polyglot, coder, indie & rhythm gamer. Any pronouns. A blend of positivity and nihilism. Ⓥ

Website: https://somni.us
Location: Bay Area, CA, USA
Pronouns: he/she/they

Last Notes

2026-06-08 21:45:18 UTC

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posts you made, definitely gone. From how I understand Mastodon does federation, mentions and DMs may show up on other instances we federate with but those will also be gone on our local instance unfortunately. They may get picked up somehow but there will most likely be gaps

2026-06-08 06:27:43 UTC

Hey Merveilles folks—I'm really sorry about this, we're still on the previous version and you may see some posts are missing. This update didn't go so well.
Unfortunately, the last 4 days of local posts have been wiped out and are no longer in our database. I had to restart from a backup and since I had enabled weekly backups, the one from 4 days ago was the most recent one. That's on me—there were steps I could have taken to mitigate this and I just, well, didn't. Some data will be missing and it is unfortunately unrecoverable.
Since I had issues updating on this instance, I will readjust to focusing purely on making a new instance and eventually switching over to that one, where it's on an up-to-date OS. Specifically, I will:
- Ensure that I take a snapshot of the instance before attempting upgrades so that I further minimize data loss
- Make sure I'm no longer force-pushing updates to our main branch. I will create a separate branch for each release and only merge commit back into the main branch when I confirm it's working
- In addition to the above, I will investigate using DigitalOcean's managed databases, spinning out the database from the instance. The intent is to make sure server updates don't blow away any more data.

2026-04-06 05:11:03 UTC

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gosh I miss PSO, that was fun when I played it a bit years ago!

2025-10-26 23:43:27 UTC

Hey all—I never really told folks about this, but I stopped being vegan a couple years ago.
After thinking things over for a long time, I've decided to go fully vegan again. I can write up a longer post why at some point, but the short answer is that I missed it!
Time to be plant powered once again 🌱🖤

2025-08-05 17:32:25 UTC

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Hell yes, this is sounding great!

2025-02-18 18:41:23 UTC

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Aaa congrats!!

2024-11-23 09:29:58 UTC

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This past week was so fun!! Thank you all ao much for making it such an amazing time 🖤🖤🖤

2024-09-10 19:26:39 UTC

Hey all, thanks for sending me emails when thing are going wrong. We hit the max memory limit again because somehow my elasticsearch config got overridden and the max heap size disappeared, meaning Elasticsearch was consuming all available memory and locking up Redis again.
Servers sure are fun, aren't they? 😢
Anyways, I'm gonna keep an eye on the dashboards to make sure our memory usage doesn't spiral out of control again. Thanks for reporting!