Camp Counselor ⛺ @CampCounselor@comicscamp.club

A friendly reminder that if you could see yourself enjoying a small comics/narrative art-focused social community like comicscamp.club, feel free to send me a DM and I can set you up with an invite!

Open to any creative people who like good stories and who are kind, supportive, inclusive, and good beans all around. Come join us at Camp!

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Welcome fellow campers fo ComicsCamp.Club!

I'm your friendly admin, and I'm here to help you out in any way I can!

Once you've signed up feel free to add your own avatar and fill out your other info in your preferences (The Cog icon at the top left of the page). The posts of people you follow will appear in the "Home" feed, and public toots from everyone on instance will appear on the Local feed.

Don't hesitate to reach out if you need anything. Welcome to Camp! ⛺

Some added info:

Here's the Hometown Fork github page so you can read up on the changes from vanilla Mastodon yourself: https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown

You can also check out Spacebear.ee's Hometown hosting options here: https://federation.spacebear.ee/software/hometown

Lastly, here's Masto.Host's blog post explaining the new price points for their service: https://masto.host/the-times-they-are-a-changin/

So, here's where I gather your input: Which would you prefer I do?

I have a little under 30 days to make a decision, and I would really love to hear your opinions!

Thank you everyone!

Mainly the changes to toot character size limits; I'd love to have a little extra breathing room with toot size. 500 characters is much better than what Twitter offers, but it still feels a little claustrophobic sometimes! I'd love to have the option to increase it.

I don't know if our community would get much out of Local-only posting, but I would love that feature on Mastodon in general.

So this *would* be a convenient time to switch to Hometown at Spacebear.ee if we were to do that.

Some considerations:

Hugo at Masto.host has been an amazing host to us for five years now. Our instance has run so smoothly, and he grandfathered our plan on the old price-point for so long. I'm so indebted to his hard work and generosity. Without him we wouldn't have this community. So I am happy to pay the extra expense.

But Hugo doesn't provide a Hometown fork option, but it comes with some added perks, some of which I've been wanting to have here for a while now.

Hello my lovely Campers!

A heads up: like a few other MastoAdmins who host through Masto.host, I received an email recently telling me that our instance is over the limits at our current hosting plan.

This means one of two things:

1. I upgrade our hosting plan with Masto.host, which ups the cost from £5/mo to $30 USD/mo

2. I do what I was thinking about doing a few months ago and migrate over to a Hometown installation through Spacebear.ee's hosting service.

I'd love to hear your input!

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