Administrator of thelemmy.club
Nerd, truck driver, and kinda creeped that you’re reading this.
The niche communities on Reddit built slowly too. Just keep posting content to these communities. Potential new users are MUCH more likely to stick around and participate if it seems somewhat active.
This whole thing relies on a tiny percentage of users that actively participate and try to enrich their communities be part of that percentage.
Lemmy existed years before now. It will exist for many more.
Yes. Just keep posting. You might not get any responses for a while but keep posting news, photos, etc.
If you just create it and leave it empty, you probably won’t go anywhere. If users come and see at least one person is regularly posting, it’s much more attractive.
The same way Reddit handled communities that had nearly identical or similar topics:
One gets popular, the other doesn’t.
I dunno, it seems really impressive to me.
Top -> Six Hours
Best sort
It’ll run basically on a potato, at least with just one user
And what happens when you go to make a post?
Plus that would lead to you seeing many identical or near identical discussions
Eh. Most people will just see posts from the more popular one in their feed and subscribe from there. Or search for something and they’ll pick the top result which is going to be the larger one.
It’s not really much more confusing than say /r/Tech vs /r/Technology. Or /r/offmychest vs /r/trueoffmychest etc
It’s like the early days of Reddit. Plenty of competing subs for one topic. /r/Tech and /r/Technology
Eventually more people join one, and that one becomes more active and gets shared more, then it becomes the clear winner with way more users than the other. Just give it time
You need actual access to the server. Like ssh permissions
Yeah, legally.
In practice? Lol
Yeah pretty much my setup. Full DB and pictrs backups uploaded to Backblaze B2 every few hours. Config files all backed up. Also send a copy to my home lab. Encrypted on the server before it gets sent out.
Worst case - we lose a few hours of data.
I keep about a week’s worth of backups on B2 (and 2 days on my home server) which is just over 200GB now. But that costs next to nothing on B2.
Maybe eventually if my instance grows more I might consider doing a replica DB on another server.
My total costs are like, $7.50 a month but I only have 15 actually active users. I don’t need to grow, but I’m willing to. If the costs increase too much I’ll ask for donations and if that stops covering things I’ll just close registrations. That’s the great part of not being a business chasing infinite growth.
And my routine will just be kbin/lemmy (hoping for a unified app soon on android).
Eh - you can join Kbin Magazines with a lemmy account, and Lemmy communities with a Kbin account.
I’ve heard it’s fairly expensive place to visit though 😅
My grandmother basically lived inside Yahoo! Spades, even joining organized tournaments
It’s already been on there. They just didn’t get to it this release
I don’t think so. I’m on 0.18 and links to posts and comments still go to the linked instance.
However COMMUNITY linking is working great! Clicking on a link to a community on a different instance keeps you on your own instance :)
CS:GO, followed quite closely KSP.
Although Super Monkey Ball 2 on GameCube I suspect handily beats either… but I can’t track it lmao.
You can use kbin “magazines” (what they call communities) from Lemmy! They’re federated too!
Click this, for example: !AskKbin@kbin.social