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!
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