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I wrote my fist post about Lemmy.world. When June is finished, I'll also include Lemmy in the financial update on the same blog.

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[โ€“] ulu_mulu 65 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love this type of "behind the scenes" posts, thanks for sharing!

p.s. how can you do all that work? do you ever sleep? :D

[โ€“] ruud 51 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well at the moment it's kind of much.. with Lemmy, work, family, hobbies... But as soon as Lemmy gets more stable, and the moderator teams are in place, it will be more quiet

[โ€“] Dick_Justice 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You have a full plate! I think it's ts easy for us users to picture admins as fully working on the big picture and nothing else, but you're somehow juggling it all in with a very full daily life! I for one (and many others) really appreciate your herculean effort. I hope getting time for yourself as well.

[โ€“] ruud 23 points 1 year ago

Well this is a hobby. One of many hobbies I have. But at the moment the one taking up most time. But that's why I'm looking for a team. Some to help me admin my servers, some to moderate. The bigger the team, the less work for each, and the more coverage of timezones etc.

But that's a work in progress.

[โ€“] machie27 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks and congrations! Btw is there a page where we can (financially) contribute in some way?

[โ€“] ruud 44 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[โ€“] GONADS125 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm between jobs right now, but I can spare $2 a month. I love what you are creating and I want to help, even if in only a small way.

Seeing this instance and platform grow and flourish has been more rewarding than the last several years on reddit.

[โ€“] ruud 13 points 1 year ago

Thank you! Much appreciated!

[โ€“] WorldieBoi 6 points 1 year ago

Subscribed! You are doing a great job @[email protected] ! Thank you!

[โ€“] cybervseas 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Delightfully straightforward update, thank you. I wonder if Hetzner would be willing to offer a discounted rate if they knew what everyone here is trying to do.

[โ€“] ruud 23 points 1 year ago

That's a good thought, I will check with them.

[โ€“] MyOpinion 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This simple blog post may some day go down in history.

[โ€“] OtakuAltair 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] MarsAgainstVenus 9 points 1 year ago

Everything about this is cool! It feels like an "internet" reboot.

[โ€“] Speckle 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thanks for keeping everyone updated while doing everything you're doing in your home life too. And again thanks for making lemmy.world happen.

Who on earth downvoted an update by Ruud though!?

[โ€“] ruud 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Probably someone had their phone upside down

[โ€“] TurnItOff_OnAgain 10 points 1 year ago

Dang Australians.

[โ€“] BackOnMyBS 7 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] Tununias 10 points 1 year ago

I bet it was the guy who tried signing up all those bots.

[โ€“] V4uban 14 points 1 year ago

Congratulations on your achievements!

[โ€“] TheCalzoneMan 14 points 1 year ago

First Lemmy instance for me! I'm super interested in what's going on over here, it's fascinating watching something like this grow. I hope some of the guys who worked on the mod tools on Reddit jump over here to help develop tools here.

[โ€“] LiberalDude 12 points 1 year ago

Thanks for doing this @ruud

[โ€“] ben914 12 points 1 year ago

It's awesome to see a posts like this that's so open about what going on behind the scenes. I'm new to this fediverse stuff. It's taking a while to learn about it all, but I really like the open source nature of it all, and not being reliant on a single corporate entity. I really want to see Lemmy, and this instance, as well as other fediverse projects succeed and grow. I happily donated. Keep up the good work!

[โ€“] minimar 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Will you be posting every time there's a new blog post? I'm interested to keep reading these!

[โ€“] ruud 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes I think so. You could also follow @[email protected] if you have mastodon, calckey, Akkoma or any such fediverse account.

[โ€“] neblem 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hopefully one day in Lemmy too! Thanks for making this space for all of us!

[โ€“] flake 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

@[email protected] thank you very much for making a nice space here!

[โ€“] _spiffy 6 points 1 year ago

This is great, I am really enjoying this community.

[โ€“] SheeEttin 6 points 1 year ago

I donated! Also let me know if you want mod help.

[โ€“] zephyr 6 points 1 year ago

Thank you for your work

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nice! Perhaps thats a good idea.. A writefreely blog for such updates!

[โ€“] ruud 9 points 1 year ago

Of course.. it federates! You can follow my blog account from mastodon or whichever, via @[email protected]

[โ€“] DelvianSeek 6 points 1 year ago

Great recap, thanks!

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Well done. Thanks, hero.

[โ€“] snipe_at 5 points 1 year ago

This was very cool to take a peak into. I have been considering setting up my own server but now I'm pretty sure my old rig couldn't handle a rig like this.

[โ€“] Graphine 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think a big part of making large federated servers going is going to be donations. Is there any way we can donate? Thank you for all the hard work!

[โ€“] Dick_Justice 4 points 1 year ago

His patreon is listed in another comment.

[โ€“] ChaosAD 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you have some technical tips for other not so experienced admins? (I just started a Lemmy instance for my country)

[โ€“] ruud 2 points 1 year ago

Well the first would be to join the Lemmy admin matrix channel, you can get help there: https://matrix.to/#/!OwmdVYiZSXrXbtCNLw:matrix.org?via=matrix.org&via=mozilla.org&via=tchncs.de

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Even tho I'm not on your instance I have to thank you for allowing the fediverse to grow.

[โ€“] m3t00 4 points 1 year ago

thanks for your efforts

[โ€“] Ectra 4 points 1 year ago

I'm happy to be here! While sometimes it's definitely noticible that Lemmy is still in its early days, but that in itself makes me excited for the road ahead. Thanks Ruud!

[โ€“] Kurumatron 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That was a nice read, thanks for all your work @[email protected] ! I hope that you can get a good rest soon after things settle down a bit

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Cool, go lemmy.world