Quite a few people have been really hostile to the idea of spreading across the federation from lemmy.world. Some just are fixated on the idea reddit 2.0 over everything else right now. Even more so, I’ve offered to host and help migrate over some book/writing related communities that are on lemmy.world and it like seems some of the mods in communities there are fine with doing but if they did so lemmy.world would just reopen the community with new mods choking the new community to death. When lemdroid migrated over lemmy.world overtook the community and reopened it with new mods, lemdroid still doesn’t compare in size to the android community they forcefully reopened.
Alongside that, I’ve considered opening a general art focused lemmy instance to help spread things out further, but I don’t know if I could pay for two instances right now. Right now literature.cafe is out of my pocket, but I have a nice domain for it on hand and the spare time to make if there is interest and others willing to contribute, so who knows. dunno where to even gauge interest on that though tbh 🤷
what is with fedi instances and wanting to be the biggest hugest one out there? eugen with .social/.online, the whole universeodon saga, and now lemmy.world…
i mean, i can understand redditors not being open to change and just wanting things as they are, but ruud operates mulltiple fedi services aside from lemmy (basically anything with the .world tld is connected to mastodon.world/ruud). he of all people should know better.
re your art instance: one of the main problems with this kinda thing is it’s hard to find people who are both technically inclined, AND can deal with community moderation (which is difficult and is expressly why i haven’t done anything other than a brief single user instance) AND has the resources to keep one up and running. have you considered asking around a couple well moderated art communities ahead of time, and just handling the tech portions yourself while they handle the moderation?
i guess that won’t help with the money part though
Quite a few people have been really hostile to the idea of spreading across the federation from lemmy.world. Some just are fixated on the idea reddit 2.0 over everything else right now. Even more so, I’ve offered to host and help migrate over some book/writing related communities that are on lemmy.world and it like seems some of the mods in communities there are fine with doing but if they did so lemmy.world would just reopen the community with new mods choking the new community to death. When lemdroid migrated over lemmy.world overtook the community and reopened it with new mods, lemdroid still doesn’t compare in size to the android community they forcefully reopened.
Alongside that, I’ve considered opening a general art focused lemmy instance to help spread things out further, but I don’t know if I could pay for two instances right now. Right now literature.cafe is out of my pocket, but I have a nice domain for it on hand and the spare time to make if there is interest and others willing to contribute, so who knows. dunno where to even gauge interest on that though tbh 🤷
what is with fedi instances and wanting to be the biggest hugest one out there? eugen with .social/.online, the whole universeodon saga, and now lemmy.world…
i mean, i can understand redditors not being open to change and just wanting things as they are, but ruud operates mulltiple fedi services aside from lemmy (basically anything with the .world tld is connected to mastodon.world/ruud). he of all people should know better.
re your art instance: one of the main problems with this kinda thing is it’s hard to find people who are both technically inclined, AND can deal with community moderation (which is difficult and is expressly why i haven’t done anything other than a brief single user instance) AND has the resources to keep one up and running. have you considered asking around a couple well moderated art communities ahead of time, and just handling the tech portions yourself while they handle the moderation?
i guess that won’t help with the money part though