Hello and welcome! My name is Sam, and if you couldn’t tell, I love frogs. I’ve been a Lemmy user for many years (my home instance is feddit.org 😉), but I’ve always wanted to host an instance of my own. That desire is finally coming to fruition.

I don’t have much of a plan for r1b.it beyond building a little online community; I kinda want that to be up to you guys! My hope is that r1b.it will naturally carve itself a niche as the userbase grows, but we’ll just have to see. Perhaps the most attractive part about my instance is that it is ran as a collective. I may have the admin and moderation power, but my users are the ones that guide it. It may be “my” instance, but I run it as a service to you all.

If you have a community idea and no place for it to call home, I’d be happy to host it on r1b.it! If you’re looking for that sense of digital comradery, you won’t find a closer bunch of Lemmites than r1b.it. Even if you just want a super short domain name attached to your user and nothing else, r1b.it is the instance for you!

When you apply, tell me a little bit about yourself. I’d love to get to know you! :)