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friendlier phrasing; note about sister site hosting idea

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@ -6,16 +6,23 @@ source code to the site operating at
[https://lobste.rs](https://lobste.rs).
It is a Rails 5 codebase and uses a SQL (MariaDB in production) backend for the database.
While you are free to fork this code and modify it (according to the [license](https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/blob/master/LICENSE))
to run your own link aggregation website, this source code repository and bug
tracker are only for the site operating at [lobste.rs](https://lobste.rs/).
Please do not use the bug tracker for support related to operating your own
site unless you are contributing code that will also benefit [lobste.rs](https://lobste.rs/).
You are free to use this code to start your own [sister site](https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/wiki)
because the code is availbale under a [permissive license](https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/blob/master/LICENSE) (3-clause BSD).
We welcome bug reports and code contributions that help use improve [lobste.rs](https://lobste.rs).
As a volunteer project we're reluctant to take on work that's not useful to our site, so please understand if we don't want to adopt your custom feature.
2019-05-29 experiment:
Are you interested in running your own sister site and not technical, or otherwise willing to pay for hosting/support?
Maybe you're a Reddit community unhappy with their redesign, want an internal site for your company, or want to experiement with community design?
Please contact Peter (email that name @push.cx).
I'm exploring the idea of a hosting company to run sites using the codebase, or maybe consulting on custom features, and would love to hear from you.
(The only change to Lobsters would be that someone's getting paid to PR back bug fixes.)
#### Contributing bugfixes and new features
Please see the [CONTRIBUTING](https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)
file.
We'd love to have your help.
Please see the [CONTRIBUTING](https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) file for details.
#### Initial setup