When information is cheap, attention is expensive · Raphael Lullis
raphael.lullis.net

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.

  • rglullis@communick.newsOPEnglish
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    2 months ago

    If a moderator is from a different instance, can they effectively moderate?

    Yes, I haven’t had any issue moderating things from communick.news, even on communities that are not here.

    But nowadays with Lemmy Explorer and with multiple community promo communities I think it’s not really hard to find the topics you are interested in.

    This approach does not address two issues that would be resolved by separating “community instances” from “people instances”:

    1. Centralization of communities around the big instances, creating a “too big to fail” scenario. Last I checked, more than half of the top 100 communities are on LW.
    2. Political/Ideological differences among larger instances causing needless fragmentation of the communities. E.g, there were discussions before about moving communities from .ml because some people didn’t want to be associated with the Lemmy devs. Some were in favor, some were against. By having the communities on neutral ground, not only this whole issue is sidestepped, it also makes it easier for both sides of the table to be able to join one single community and make the overall fediverse stronger.