The fanbase is still large, but the Lemmy community hasn’t quite caught up yet, and now there is a transitional period where the audience is smaller.

  • Bilbo Baggins@hobbit.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This is a concern, but luckily this isn’t required. I set up hobbit.world to host my Tolkien related communities. It only costs $6 a month plus the $35/yr for the domain name to host a tiny instance like this. I don’t need to depend on anyone but my hosting provider.

    To be safe I should download backups once a month or so.

    But the point is that for big communities that people put a lot of time into, there should be an instance for each one owned by one of the mods.

      • Bilbo Baggins@hobbit.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        If you’re asking what the $6 gets, I’m talking about a single shard which allows me to host a Linux instance that runs a Lemmy instance. I wasn’t sure if that was sufficient, but honestly, the performance via Jerboa is better than when I was using an account on lemmy.world. It has only been a week, so don’t know how much disk will get used up over time. Long term I might need to bump things up for storage.