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

submitted 2 months ago by rglullis@communick.news to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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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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[-] Blaze@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago

Who would manage all of those community instances?

The current setup works well with the limited number of admins and mods we have overall. I'm regularly looking for mods on communities I mod, there isn't so many of them (e.g. !showsandmovies@lemm.ee )

Also, with the federation currently being broken, mods would need to have an account on each community to be able to get the reports: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4744

Regarding costs, the cost of these community instances suggested by OP is around 6500€ per year, so 540€ per month (https://lemmy.world/comment/12595221)

It currently costs 80€ per month to host lemmy.ml, which is the 4th most active instance with 2300 monthly active users

[-] IceHouse@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

I mean that is what is is asking, he is looking for a team of people to manage the instances in this post. That is what this post is about, he is looking for a team of people to run them as admins while maintaining his (imo correct) vision for how it should be structured.

I forgot to mention the biggest fact- the users are where all the risk are. If people are just posting pictures to your instance of communities you have minimized risk as you can just gatekeep what is posted. Once you allow users in who can then post on other federated communities you take on a lot more risk.