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[email protected] !

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]

https://github.com/joinloops/loops-server/pull/1

[email protected] for another ask community, for people reading this

I scrolled soccer.forum all the way to 6 months ago and only found @[email protected] as the other regular poster. Did I miss something?

[email protected] is 2 months old, so 6 months seems enough in the past to see what was happening back then.

You could have helped with decentralization a lot more than “moving from the first to the second largest instance”.

The best is the enemy if the good. Lemm.ee is a well managed instance, and still their first community in the most active ranking is 52th: https://lemmyverse.net/communities?order=active

Unfortunately there's no way to get the number of servers with 0 users in the last 6 months on https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list

If someone has that data, that could be useful.