Hey everyone! Figured I would do an AMA to kick off some activity in the IAmA community over here. Feel free to throw down some questions below and ill answer them

I’m currently a student in university and have been doing both web development and game development recently (web for internships, game on my own). Out of the four admins ive been the one mainly handling community creation and managing in the instance to make sure everythings running smoothly

Some other misc topics that I can answer about: I compose music & make pixel art, and my favorite games are minecraft, SCP:SL, everhood, battlerite, and metal slug 3

If anyone else wants to do an AMA feel free to start one up in the community (assuming it fits the instance). Any activity helps get the ball rolling for getting it active

  • Mikina
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    1 year ago

    Would you be able to share an estimate of monthly costs associated with hosting this instance? I don’t need an exact number, just an idea of the budget you should have ready if you want Lemmy on VCS.

    • AtegonOPMA
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      1 year ago

      current costs are around $2.1k a year so divided by 12 months would be $175 a month. Part of that was due to the initial domain name purchase though which was $580

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        1 year ago

        Thank you! Now that I think about, I’ll make sure to donate a bit, it sounds like a pretty expensive hobby and so far, I really like this instance.

        Have you maybe considered some kind of supporter badges for accounts? I wouldn’t include any other benefits to not alienate the userbase too much, but almost every time I’ve actually realized that I should donate to some project I really liked was thanks to someone having a supporter badge, even though I’ve seen numerous banners or messages asking for donations - which may be because they are so frequent and resemble ads too much, that I’m conditioned to just not pay any attention to them by default. But a supporter badge may inspire some more people to donate.

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          1 year ago

          yeah ive been thinking about that as a way to show supporters. Might be something that can be added in once I get flairs down and it can show up beside someone similar to the creator, mod, admin, etc. bubbles