I self-hosted an instance a when I got here a few days ago. The server costs me the same whether I use it or not, so I’d like to let as many people sign up as I can. I had a few people sign up already before join-lemmy.org was changed to require 5 monthly active users, but now my instance isn’t shown there because it’s below the limit.
Any idea on how to attract a dozen or so users so that I can show up on the main join-lemmy page again?
Use a throwaway to be safe. Some communities have been open to it, others haven’t. If you don’t have a throwaway I hate suggesting create one (because it tells their investors that they’re growing), but you could make one that’s named something like “FollowXOnLemmy” or something