The instance you make your account on doesn't matter, as they're federated you can see and interact with posts from anywhere else.

You can check out the Lemmy community browser to see a list of the most visited communities, then search for them in https://lemmy.world/search to subscribe/post/comment. (note: beehaw.org communities arent accessible from lemmy.world, so ignore those)

Wiped the VPS clean, new 22.04 server install.

Deployed using that installer.

Exact same issue. The lemmy container cannot reach the database and continually restarts. I'll post some logs, but they're practically identical to what I posted before:

lemmy container logs:

`thread 'main' panicked at 'Error connecting to postgres://lemmy:PasswordRedacted@postgres:5432/lemmy', crates/db_schema/src/utils.rs:161:56

sudo docker ps output:

CONTAINER ID   IMAGE                        COMMAND                  CREATED          STATUS
 PORTS                                                                                         NAMES
9eaa62ea6f99   caddy:latest                 "caddy run --config …"   12 minutes ago   Up 12 minutes
 0.0.0.0:80->80/tcp, :::80->80/tcp, 0.0.0.0:443->443/tcp, :::443->443/tcp, 443/udp, 2019/tcp   lemmy-easy-deploy-proxy-1
a10009ed128d   dessalines/lemmy-ui:0.17.4   "docker-entrypoint.s…"   12 minutes ago   Up 12 minutes
                                                                                               lemmy-easy-deploy-lemmy-ui-1
a166b1486d51   dessalines/lemmy:0.17.4      "/app/lemmy"             12 minutes ago   Restarting (101) 41 seconds ago                                                                                                 lemmy-easy-deploy-lemmy-1
08329653260b   asonix/pictrs:0.3.1          "/sbin/tini -- /usr/…"   12 minutes ago   Up 12 minutes
 6669/tcp, 8080/tcp                                                                            lemmy-easy-deploy-pictrs-1
51af8f312511   postgres:15-alpine           "docker-entrypoint.s…"   12 minutes ago   Up 12 minutes
                                                                                               lemmy-easy-deploy-postgres-1

No errors of any kind in the ansible script. nginx is running, and it's at https://lemmy.name - I get some gateway timeout errors once in a while, but that's all. I assume this is because the lemmy container keeps restarting (as I mentioned in my original post) because it can't access the database.

\c lemmy does return "You are now connected to database "lemmy" as user "lemmy""

Running \dt after connecting returns "Did not find any relations"

Thanks for the help so far y'all, but I'm heading to sleep. Will continue working on this tomorrow.

Yes, I can log into the psql shell on the container and connect to the database with no issue. I guess it is a network issue, I'll look into it further tomorrow

The postgres container appears to be running.

sudo docker ps output:

CONTAINER ID   IMAGE                        COMMAND                  CREATED          STATUS                            PORTS                                 NAMES
e305af2b91c8   dessalines/lemmy-ui:0.17.4   "docker-entrypoint.s…"   27 minutes ago   Up 27 minutes                     127.0.0.1:12074->1234/tcp             lemmyname_lemmy-ui_1
3978157ef390   dessalines/lemmy:0.17.4      "/app/lemmy"             27 minutes ago   Restarting (101) 34 seconds ago                                         lemmyname_lemmy_1
626d7792534b   asonix/pictrs:0.3.1          "/sbin/tini -- /usr/…"   27 minutes ago   Up 27 minutes                     6669/tcp, 127.0.0.1:21166->8080/tcp   lemmyname_pictrs_1
65eab82adee9   mwader/postfix-relay         "/root/run"              27 minutes ago   Up 27 minutes                     25/tcp                                lemmyname_postfix_1
2ab8c789fdcd   postgres:15-alpine           "docker-entrypoint.s…"   27 minutes ago   Up 27 minutes                     5432/tcp                              lemmyname_postgres_1

Container logs: ...

PostgreSQL init process complete; ready for start up.

2023-06-18 01:57:16.112 UTC [1] LOG:  starting PostgreSQL 15.3 on x86_64-pc-linux-musl, compiled by gcc (Alpine 12.2.1_git20220924-r10) 12.2.1 20220924, 64-bit
2023-06-18 01:57:16.112 UTC [1] LOG:  listening on IPv4 address "0.0.0.0", port 5432
2023-06-18 01:57:16.112 UTC [1] LOG:  listening on IPv6 address "::", port 5432
2023-06-18 01:57:16.113 UTC [1] LOG:  listening on Unix socket "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432"
2023-06-18 01:57:16.117 UTC [53] LOG:  database system was shut down at 2023-06-18 01:57:16 UTC
2023-06-18 01:57:16.123 UTC [1] LOG:  database system is ready to accept connections
2023-06-18 02:02:16.215 UTC [51] LOG:  checkpoint starting: time
2023-06-18 02:02:20.329 UTC [51] LOG:  checkpoint complete: wrote 44 buffers (0.3%); 0 WAL file(s) added, 0 removed, 0 recycled; write=4.110 s, sync=0.003 s, total=4.115 s; sync files=12, longest=0.002 s, average=0.001 s; distance=252 kB, estimate=252 kB

They can't be replaced in this case - unless Reddit wants to spend lots of $$$ hiring moderators. As long as they leave that power to community mods, it is impossible for them to stop this type of protest.

I do think there is a real possibility Reddit will consider this a long-term risk and replace them with paid mods.

what it tells me is that it's finally having a financial impact

Update for anyone wondering: Around 58% of the initial protest userbase has gone dark permanently (at the time of writing).

Many have gone public only to run polls on how to proceed, so that number is expected to increase.

I've heard several advertisers are reconsidering spending with Reddit, they didn't realize the community had this much power over the site (which introduces more risk for them.) Hopefully that has some effect.

I just messaged them, but they haven't had any activity on their account since creation (including in their own subs), so I don't have a lot of hope.

Worst case scenario, if I don't get a response in a week I will try contacting Ruud. Having to contact the instance admin directly for this sort of thing seems unsustainable though.