• cabbagee
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    1 year ago

    In the same boat, realized now I’M responsible for content. Oh no.

      • Yoshizuki@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        I’m interested in the other niches that you found ! I started keeping ants with my son when he found a queen outside. Now we have three colonies. We also have a cockroaches (to feed the ants) and this spring we started a snail terrarium. It’s always amazing to watch this small guy doing what they do.

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    1 year ago

    I am actually kinda curious on this. How does one effectively start a community? Whats the difference between a community an instance and a server?

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      1 year ago

      Instance and server are interchangeable. Instances have multiple communities, as many as you want. Beehaw instance only has like 20 while Lemmy.world has hundreds. Starting a community on an existing server is filling out a form, basically signing up for a website. Starting an instance requires hardware, metal or cloud, some experience with server software and command line interfaces, and patience. Any Lemmy server can federate with all other servers so you can show up on my feed when I hit “all” instead of “local.” You can be defederated with for technically any reason by any server. It doesn’t happen often outside of beehaw and most of their defederation list is like Neo Nazi shit.

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    1 year ago

    It do be like that.

    c/memes aside, I remember starting my own webforum on InvisionFree in 2006. Place was a barren wasteland, but in fairness it was for a very specific niche game at the time (Armored Core) and the target market was also tiny (players in the Philippines). Lo and behold, one by one people came. 17 years and a lot of host and software migrations later, that forum is still standing.

    If you build it, they will come. Eventually.

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      1 year ago

      Armoured core was great, unfortunately I was too busy picking flax on Runescape in 2006 so never found your forum.

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    1 year ago

    What‘s the community?

    I‘m new too and on kbin and gotta say, I don‘t even know where I am half the time, but excited to be here anyway.