I created !pixelart@retrolemmy.com a few days ago. It started with 55 default sub's from Lemmy-federate bots, but now already has 200 subs, and users participating with their own art!

Quite pleased with the community response, and grateful to retrolemmy.com for hosting it. They were the perfect instance for that community, and seem to run a tight ship :)

[–] DosDude@retrolemmy.com 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

We mostly try to keep the server running, and let people be people. Not much admin work to do on a small instance. Thankfully. But we're happy to have you!

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Don't sell yourselves short, your instance has a lot going for it due to your efforts!

Active admins who regularly participate and are easily reached if issues come up
Regularly update to newer versions of Lemmy
Appealing instance theme
excellent server up-time
Sought out Lemmy-federate to make it easier for new communities

All that takes time and effort to maintain, and a surprising amount of smaller instances can lack that. So cheers for all that you do, appreciate it man :)

[–] DosDude@retrolemmy.com 2 points 4 months ago

Haha. Thanks a lot! Even though most of it is due to self interest :p

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