World citizen based outside of Stockholm, Sweden.

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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • The concept of the Fediverse is horizontal rather than vertical growth - i.e. More smaller instances rather than increasing the capacity of the larger ones. We’re also seeing that Lemmy currently only scales to a certain degree. Right now, most instances are either covered by their admin because they’re so small that the cost is manageable or instances are setting up donations.

    It’s conceivable that a business would set up an instance and charge for it - but I think it unlikely. A year town the road, though, who knows?


  • I was able to get Brevo working on Hetzner with the following block:

      email: {
        smtp_server: "smtp-relay.sendinblue.com:587"
        smtp_login: "your_email"
        smtp_password: "smtp_key"
        smtp_from_address: "your_email"
        tls_type: "starttls"
      }
    

    Interestingly, it wasn’t working when I gave up and went to bed. I happened to do something on the instance today and much to my surprise, an email came through. Maybe Brevo holds the emails/doesn’t immediately allow SMTP?

    if that hadn’t worked, my next step was going to test sending email through the console as described in another comment.