Normally I do not shut down services in order to perform updates, but the new Lemmy release requires a newer version of the PostgreSQL database server, which in turn requires a migration of the very cluster. If nothing special is hindering it (this happened with the Synapse Matrix server recently), this will be done quite quickly by just linking to the newer Postgres version (this is a feature of Postgres itself), otherwise it might take an hour or two.
This will also affect the Firefish microblogging instance under https://procial.tchncs.de
sorry about that, was sure that was done already … gonna add this to my todo. if i dont respond, please just ping me again, it sadly happens from time to time that too many things are going on at once
Oh yeah no worries, i just assumed you have a busy schedule :) Thanks for the quick reply!