I think if people can get past how it’s a bit complicated they can pretty easily just pick a random smaller server to sign up to. I’ve been on Reddit recommending sh.itjust.works because it doesn’t ask for an essay or some shit, just a username and password, as god intended
I’m opening up my server to about 100 users. My server seemed a bit overkill for one account so I figured may as well help a little. We’ll see what usage looks like and maybe I can add more people without it starting to get expensive.
That’s why I’m capping it at 100. That might be permanent. I don’t need a huge community. I don’t need growth. Federation provides more than enough content.
Plus considering probably 8/10 users will only login once or twice, realistically I’m looking at 1-2 dozen actual users. I can work from there and see what I can handle.
I’ve been explaining it as countries/international travel. Lemmy is a country, Mastodon is a country, you can travel freely between them but you need a passport. Each service has it’s own government whose rules you have to abide. Lemmy instances are like states (or provinces or what have you), where you can just… freely travel between them. Each instance has it’s own local government whose rules you have to abide. Communities are like cities/towns, with their own small local government whose rules you have to abide… etc, etc.
I think if people can get past how it’s a bit complicated they can pretty easily just pick a random smaller server to sign up to. I’ve been on Reddit recommending sh.itjust.works because it doesn’t ask for an essay or some shit, just a username and password, as god intended
I’m opening up my server to about 100 users. My server seemed a bit overkill for one account so I figured may as well help a little. We’ll see what usage looks like and maybe I can add more people without it starting to get expensive.
I would set up and encourage a donation system. The costs are going to build up in a hurry.
That’s why I’m capping it at 100. That might be permanent. I don’t need a huge community. I don’t need growth. Federation provides more than enough content.
Plus considering probably 8/10 users will only login once or twice, realistically I’m looking at 1-2 dozen actual users. I can work from there and see what I can handle.
I just use the email metaphor and it usually gives people a rough idea how it works. It seems more complicated than it is.
I’ve been using the email metaphor to explain what it is and then sending them to sh.itjust.works
I’ve been explaining it as countries/international travel. Lemmy is a country, Mastodon is a country, you can travel freely between them but you need a passport. Each service has it’s own government whose rules you have to abide. Lemmy instances are like states (or provinces or what have you), where you can just… freely travel between them. Each instance has it’s own local government whose rules you have to abide. Communities are like cities/towns, with their own small local government whose rules you have to abide… etc, etc.
Nice way to explain it
Such a great instance name
It definitely lives up to its name as well
One of the servers asked me what I would contribute to the community. Good way to confuse people who don’t understand lemmy.