• key@lemmy.keychat.org
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    1 year ago

    Join-lemmy would need to be opt-in first. Lots of the smaller instances are people experimenting or instances meant for owner and friends

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      1 year ago

      I would love this, running a SFW topical instance but ok to let people make it home. Have plenty of capacity and no plans to shut it down. Last system i ran lasted almost 15 years before it shut down due to utter lack of use…because reddit.

      • Netto Hikari@social.fossware.space
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        1 year ago

        Yes, I’m in the very same boat. I spun up my instance and people are coming, mostly as lurkers, though. Which is fine for me.

        However, I also don’t plan to shut down my instance for years to come, as long as Lemmy (or forks of it) is going to be supported. Should I fall ill or get sick of hosting it, my plan would be to hand over control to someone else.

        I also run regular off-site backups, etc.

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          1 year ago

          I always used forums as 1st level knowledge stores, bascially where stuff lives before its promoted to a more durable and catalogable format like a wiki. doing it in public as much as you can is just the way IMO. I was starting to use reddit before they made these moves, happy to be back to doing it the old ways!

          Adding your communities to my server (subbing stats syncing).

          Here are a couple you might find interesting: