• SJ0@lemmy.fbxl.netEnglish
    30·
    11 months ago

    One of the things I started to realize on the Fediverse is that it doesn’t take a lot of engaged users to have a really good time on a platform.

    Congrats, here’s to more success in the future!

  • BlendedRacerEnglish
    131·
    11 months ago

    I’m part of that Jun/Jul bump, as I, along with many others fled the tyranny of Reddit during the aborted mod protests! One thing I’m starting to understand is that most (all?) Lemmy instances are self-funded and are supported by donations and not ad revenue. I think that users need to get into the mindset of supporting their home instance financially.

    • Lodion posted the costs involved in running this instance here. Call it A$60/month (which will cover the ‘at this point’ yearly costs as well). If more people join this instance then the hardware and storage costs could increase significantly (from Lodion’s post).
    • Lodion 🇦🇺MAEnglish
      13·
      11 months ago

      Just for clarity, the aussie.zone’s finances etc are fine. I’ll be aiming to post monthly updates such as this every month. Thanks again to everyone that has contributed, money won’t be an issue for the foreseeable future for aussie.zone.

      Since the post you linked to there have been many improvements in the back end of lemmy. Similarly the discovery that the bulk of storage consumption was due to a database table full of data that isn’t required. Due to this lemmy is scaling much better than it did early on. We can comfortably cater for many more users on the current server.

      I’ve also been posting a series of nerd updates with recent server stats and some commentary. tldr; we’re in a good spot right now with no need to upgrade the server in the immediate future.

      • supercheesecakeEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        I’ve just arrived and are very happy (although we need more people posting in the bluey sub!). Will happily contribute.

        BTW how do you link directly to a sub/community(?) in a comment?

        • Lodion 🇦🇺MAEnglish
          5·
          11 months ago

          You format it like this:
          [series](https://aussie.zone/post/321431)
          Here the word “series” links to the URL in the brackets. You can do this easily by selecting the word you want to become a link, then clicking the icon and pasting the link between the brackets it creates.

            • Treevan 🇦🇺English
              3·
              11 months ago

              A community can be done with a exclamation mark. If you are using the website or PWA, it should automatically populate a list and you select there.

              Here is me typing in !enviro:

  • Emu_WarriorEnglish
    7·
    11 months ago

    It’s a very friendly and helpful environment but there just isn’t much content. Whirlpool forums are also pretty good for aussies, but not as friendly and a lot of right-wingers/Q-anon type people.

    • TassieTosserEnglish
      5·
      11 months ago

      I use Whirlpool or Ozbargain to get Australia-centric reviews and recommendations. They’re decent for getting that info.

  • YⓄ乙 English
    3·
    11 months ago

    Create a OZbargain community and post deals then see how many people will move to our instance

  • Anonbal185English
    2·
    11 months ago

    I think the next big bump would be when we get 3rd party apps. Boost is planning to do one for Lemmy.