Welcome to the self-hosted and non-federated tranistan.com Lemmy instance.
Q: Why does this exist?
A: We can’t rely on Reddit to preserve our online spaces.
Q: How is tranistan.com better than Reddit in protecting our online spaces?
A: Because the people that created it are all 4tran regulars. We are invested in keeping this site alive for you all to shitpost in peace.
Q: This all feels very sketchy. Is this all hosted on someone’s old laptop in their mother’s basement? How can I know it’s not going to stop working tomorrow?
A: tranistan.com is hosted on a virtual machine through a cloud provider. The cloud provider we’ve chosen has a guaranteed 99.99% uptime monthly.
Q: Okay but what happens when more people join? Won’t it break then?
A: Our instance has enough resources to handle 500+ active daily users at the moment. If we needed to accommodate more users, it would be as easy as allocating more resources for the machine.
Q: Isn’t this all crazy expensive to maintain then? Is this really sustainable for you guys economically?
A: It’s as expensive as a Netflix subscription (with ads). We’ll survive.
Q: The UI looks like shit!
A: We agree. We’re working on it. In the meantime, go to tranistan.com/settings and switch your theme to something you like better.
Q: There’s too much going on! Where can I post?
A: Right now, c/tranistan is for announcements only. If you want to post, go to c/4tran4. Oh, and feel free to create as many communities as you like.
Hope that somewhat clears things up :) Glad to see you here! Welcome!
Can we run a collective fund for the donations to keep it running? Down the line? So we can have more people?
Right now we’re not strapped for cash at all. Once we start having maybe 300+ active users posting daily for a while we’ll think about this.
Sall good, didnt mean to impose. I meant it moreso for that future anyway, I think many people wouls be willing to pay a small amount to improve this place
tyvm for offering 🫶🫶🫶 means a lot 💖💖💖 I’ll definitely keep it in mind