Hello and welcome to Lemmy.fish!

I started this instance as a personal project back in the summer of 2023 and have been the only user for most of the time since. A few user registrations have trickled in so I figured I’d make some kind of welcome post. If you’re somehow stumbling across this post in the Fediverse and you’re looking for a new Lemmy instance to call home, registrations are open!

This is a general-purpose instance, we only defederate from reddit bot instances. There is a bot (@communitybot@lemmy.fish) that subscribes to the top communities on other instances to populate the All feed and help with remote community discoverability.

I’m still a novice at server hosting. This instance originally ran on a DigitalOcean droplet but has since been migrated to a much more substantial Hetzner server with AWS S3 object storage. It should be able to handle many, many more users than will ever end up here. I aim to keep this instance up, stable, and up-to-date and any downtime is probably due to my own inexperience.

I don’t really expect this instance to grow into anything but if a few internet strangers want to make this their Lemmy instance, you’re more than welcome!