I self-hosted an instance a when I got here a few days ago. The server costs me the same whether I use it or not, so I’d like to let as many people sign up as I can. I had a few people sign up already before join-lemmy.org was changed to require 5 monthly active users, but now my instance isn’t shown there because it’s below the limit.
Any idea on how to attract a dozen or so users so that I can show up on the main join-lemmy page again?
I’m also self hosted. I decided to self host because cost of running a server isn’t so bad, and I like having my own domain / address.
Mine is open, and I’ve had some random signups without promoting it anywhere.