Hello all, It’s that time of the month again! Unfortunately we didn’t have chance to do an April Fools this year (besides, reality is weird enough in itself) - as mentioned at the end of the last update [https://lemmy.zip/post/33065677] I was expecting a child, who has safely arrived and is amazing, whilst also ruining my sleep schedule and eating all of my free time! I am sneaking a few minutes in though, to write this as they sleep! — ## Communities We’ve had loads of new communities this month, so I’ll highlight certain ones to keep the list a bit more manageable: - Language Settings [/c/languagesettings@lemmy.zip] - Fields of Mistria [/c/FieldsOfMistria@lemmy.zip] - Sim Racing [/c/SimRacing@lemmy.zip] - Foundation [/c/foundationgame@lemmy.zip] - Planet Coaster [/c/PlanetCoaster@lemmy.zip] - Kingdoms Reborn [/c/KingdomsReborn@lemmy.zip] - TF2 Weapon Ideas [/c/tf2weaponideas@lemmy.zip] - Automation and Factory Builder Games [/c/automationgames@lemmy.zip] — ## Server Update In terms of actual lemmy.zip development, things have been a little quieter. We updated to 0.19.10 when it was released - Changelog here [https://join-lemmy.org/news/2025-03-19_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.19.10_and_Developer_AMA], and we’ve implemented a couple of ways of trying to filter out Nicole PMs. If anything, its pushed me to learn new ways of interacting with Lemmy to harden the moderation support capabilities of Zippy. Before 0.19.10 was released, you may have noticed a PM in your inbox with something along the lines of “Removed by Admin” if Zippy picked up Nicole spam - with the introduction of 0.19.10, PMs are deleted when we ban an account, so you won’t need to see that anymore. And that’s it really - Sami and Druid have done a fantastic job keeping on top of applications and mod reports, and hopefully everything will continue to run smoothly :) I will schedule some small maintenance downtime when I get a chance, but I’ll give plenty of notice. — ## Please don’t be a lurker! Please don't make talk for 25 hours to make you not a lurker [https://lemmy.zip/pictrs/image/69372788-e656-4564-b3c3-5ae9fe5ea60e.webp] If you’re new to Lemmy.zip - WELCOME! I hope you’re enjoying your time here :) I am sure that long term readers are bored of reading this now, but it is really is true that the easiest way you can support Lemmy.zip is to actively engage with content here: upvoting content you enjoy, sharing your thoughts through posts and comments, sparking meaningful discussions, or even creating new communities that resonate with your interests. It’s natural to see fluctuations in user activity over time, and we’ve seen this over the wider lemmy-verse for some time now. However, if you’ve found a home here and love this space, now is the perfect opportunity to help us thrive. If you want to support us in a different way than financially, then actively interacting with the instance helps us out loads. If you’ve gone to the trouble of creating an account, then come and be part of the Fediverse! Please don’t be a lurker! :) — ## Donations Lemmy.zip only continues to exist because of the generous donations of its users. The operating cost of Lemmy.zip is over 60 euros a month ($60, £50) and is mostly funded by the community! We keep all the details around donations on our OpenCollective [https://opencollective.com/lemmyzip] page, with full transparency around income and expenditure. If you’re enjoying Lemmy.zip, please check out the OpenCollective page, we have a selection of one-off or recurring donation options. All funds go directly to hosting the site and keeping the virtual lights on. We’ve also put up a link to our Ko-Fi page [https://ko-fi.com/lemmyzip] where you can donate via paypal instead of using a card. All Ko-Fi donations will be totalled up and added to OpenCollective each month for transparency. I’ve added a link in the sidebar, but you can also click the image below to go there: [https://lemmy.zip/pictrs/image/afd02af9-f809-4bb1-a69c-c24a8e185306.webp]https://ko-fi.com/lemmyzip We continue to have some really kind and generous donators and I can’t express my thanks enough. You can see all the kind donators in the Thank You thread [https://lemmy.zip/post/130337] - you could get your name in there too! Please remember, traditional social media is only “free” to you because they sell your data. We don’t do that - if you want to support independent social websites like this one and you value your privacy, please consider a small donation. It really does help. — ## Graphs It’s all you’re really here for anyway ;) CPU: [https://lemmy.zip/pictrs/image/d233ba89-8168-49f1-ae1a-b2dda65d75ed.webp] RAM: [https://lemmy.zip/pictrs/image/5d22e9e9-7a19-49f5-b2b6-9bafe9560823.webp] Disk space: [https://lemmy.zip/pictrs/image/daaecfd9-3b7b-4a27-b865-fd6e92b579a4.webp] Image storage: [https://lemmy.zip/pictrs/image/e35150bd-eb23-43a3-a484-12e9ad11de3b.webp] Cloudflare overview: [https://lemmy.zip/pictrs/image/a4f41661-0e25-4a73-b549-6a0b0b918a88.webp] Requests: [https://lemmy.zip/pictrs/image/6ede990e-d96b-4c53-b4c5-1ee21eb27d57.webp] Bandwidth: [https://lemmy.zip/pictrs/image/8aa4378c-dd84-48f0-8198-5dec3c9aa236.webp] Unique visitors: [https://lemmy.zip/pictrs/image/5d045eee-831e-4d97-9b07-4a6ac95b3af5.webp] Traffic: [https://lemmy.zip/pictrs/image/2866487c-2605-4eae-b576-82998cc271ea.webp] — Apologies, bit of a shorter one than usual, but I am severely sleep deprived! (and will moan about it at every opportunity) As always please let me know if there is anything you’d like to see me include in these, otherwise I’ll be back next month with another one! Thanks Demigodrick