@[email protected] as you're the script/bot creator
It doesn't have to be yours for you to post a meta post 😄
Thank you for chiming in
To repeat: I am not demanding anything from him and I am not entitled to anyone’s goodwill. But if someone has any form of objection or issue with me or my work, I’d rather they make it explicit so that everyone else can evaluate for themselves than sticking with this eternal avoidance and non-committal position.
This comment is 6 months old: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/28718268/13761862
Not sure what is avoidant or non-committal about this
"My position is
- having too many instances managed by a single person is a high security risk. We see instances disappear regularly, usually it's not a big deal because they are smaller instances, but currently, even if LW were to disappear, there are enough backup communities on other instances to keep going. It would be an issue, but the platform would recover
- My next suggestion was then indeed to have someone else helping rglullis with managing those instances
- based on the thread from 4 days ago, no admins has jumped in and offered to help: https://lemmy.world/post/20236330?scrollToComments=true
As a way to try to help him to get why people are not joining, I pointed out that
- relying on paid accounts with amounts such as 30€ per year while some instances have user costs as low as 0,11€ per month (so 3€ per year) https://lemmy.world/post/19466047 is unrealistic (and no, assuming that people browse Lemmy from "shiny iPhones" is not a reason: https://lemmy.world/comment/12172203)
- setting up an infrastructure that costs 1700 € per year on domain names alone is unreasonable (hence my comment to not buy a "football" domain name)
- having one small team per instance instead of a centralized consortium managing all of these instances seems healthier. The local team manages their instances, they make it grow organically, people see that the instance is reliable, they start trusting it and establish communities on it
I already due my due diligence when I choose an instance to host a community I post too. Rglullis do not pass this. I'm not avoiding saying no to him, I think they are a good sysadmin and do a good job, but they need a backup.
Hope that clarifies things a bit. "
What about posting a meta post to [email protected] ? Just to show people that that community also exists
I had a look and it seems like the mods on [email protected] aren't the main posters on the community.
All of these overlap in interests to various degrees. If they were a composite, the community would likely feel much more active and engaging where the user is more motivated to share their little projects and interests more actively, especially when their interests overlap spaces where the interest is not specifically in one niche. Plus you get cross pollination of methods and ideas.
I might suggest your proposition there at some point. That way it won't come from a mod
Yes, that's probably going to be an option later on
[email protected] for the context and details
Also, as feedback from a community perspective, those pings probably allowed us to reach the monthly active users on the new community, so at least there's that