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Proposal to create a collective to own the topic-based Lemmy instances (raphael.lullis.net)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have a number of Lemmy instances meant for discussion groups around specific topics. They are not being as used as I expected/hoped. I would like to set them up in a way that they can be owned by a consortium of different admins so that they are collectively owned. My only requirement: these instances should remain closed for registrations and used only to create communities.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They are not being as used as I expected/hoped.

Have you considered it's because of this?:

My only requirement: these instances should remain closed for registrations and used only to create communities.

I wouldn't run an instance that didn't allow users to sign up as it would impede growth and uptake.

It also would have the interesting effect of pushing a lot of the load onto other instances, which doesn't seem true to the Fediverse spirit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well, surely, but this constraint is there by design. The point of these users is not to attract users, but to have thematic communities that can be followed by users elsewhere on the Fediverse.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I think this makes a lot of sense. We don't want the instance hosting, say, football communities to be defederated anywhere on account of its users behaving poorly. In general there's just no reasons to have the users in the same place as the community.