Thank!
Condiment2085
joined 1 month ago
New member here! Migrated from a dying community
All good with me whatever leads to a fun community to discuss movies and tv
Just joined a few days ago, actually loving it so far. Of course we lack a few of my fav subs here but I know it'll grow.
Great questions!
Just to start, I wanted it to be small and maybe just have some friends on it. If I enjoy it a lot and more people I know want to join - great. It's more of just a test for fun and if it is something I enjoy doing I'll keep doing it.
My main reason is just to be a local person hosting an instance so that my community might be more likely to join the fediverse. Maybe if they trust me, they will trust the fediverse more, and so on. Also I think a big benefit of the fediverse is the local effect - so I'd love to help out in that way if I can.
Right now in my initial planning, I was thinking about getting a VPS and setting Lemmy up on that. Long term I'd like to self host with hardware at home but I don't have the space or budget for that right now and VPS seemed like a good starting point.
As far as other services, I really like Lemmy and it feels the most approachable for "normies" that don't want a complicated onboarding. I know a lot of people who are kind of sick of "big social" so I think they would like the familiar design of Lemmy. I could be wrong there as I haven't tried any other platforms you listed.
Thanks for your input, you've really made me think!