Welcome to Lemmy NZ
We don’t have many members, so until that changes, feel free to subscribe to communities on other instances.
At the top of the screen click Communities, then rather than Subscribed or Local, instead choose All.
This will show all the communities (like subreddits) that are currently federated (connected) with this instance (site).
You can comment on posts in these communities and interact with them the same as users on that instance, and others can subscribe to and post in our communities too.
On the home page, try the “All” tab to see all posts from all instances we federate with.
If you want more information on Lemmy and how it works, see How does this all work, anyway?
If it gets to that stage - Patreon is a pretty decent way to get support! I’m supporting my Mastodon instance through there. There’s also an Open Collective thing https://opencollective.com/ocnz
Hey thanks for the thought, I’ve actually had a VPS donated by fediservices.nz so we should be sorted as soon as I can get us migrated.
Any donations can go their way: https://opencollective.com/nz-federated-services