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Aw thank you! I'm honestly so happy with the vibes this community has so far. I saw that literature.cafe was available as a domain for super cheap and was planning on getting a VPS anyway, so I decided to set things up for a personal way to tinker with lemmy and this is where we ended up. I'm not super focused on growth, I have advertised a little bit but it's not really a focus of mine. I have a mentality of "If you build it, people will come" when it comes to these kind of communities. More than a few people have already migrated gradually from larger instances away to this instance as it matches their interests, which is quite a lot given this instance is only a few weeks old. I have considered reaching out to some of the book communities on lemmy.world as a "hey we exist if you wanna be less reliant on lemmy.world" kinda thing but I dunno how well that would be received...
Tangent aside, I made a liberapay as a thing to have. No goals are set for it, but obviously if you wanna contribute it's appreciated. I will also likely be making a "break the glass" admin account, just as a backup for someone to come in and make sure the site doesn't fall apart if I ever go AWOL (which I don't have plans on doing, but life has a way of surprising us unfortunately sometimes so its a good idea to be prepared...)
Heres the liberapay, just click the image
Probably getting ahead of things a little, but it might be cool to set up a Bookwyrm community for literature.cafe one day! I started using it recently and I'm quite enjoying it.
Thanks for setting things up, I'll happily chip in for server costs whenever I can.
I think a bookwyrm community would be fitting! I'm pretty sure they have a migration feature too. I can actually try and experiment and see how intensive it is on our resources and see if I can run it on this server....
It is, indeed, a good idea to be prepared. An old friend used to say “I’m not planning to step in front of a bus, but one never knows.” :D
Thanks for setting up a way for us to chip in from time to time.
I made a separate announcement with the link for mobile users since the icon might not work in mobile, will pin that for a day. I also plan on making these monthly statements at least once a month sometime around the beginning of the month.