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It feels a bit of a Catch-22, doesn't it?
The first topic-based I started was selfhosted. Not by choice, but because the mods of /r/selfhosted refused to run their own instance and instead went to LW. The others have similar stories. There are also instances that I went as far as setting up the domain name and creating the first communities (roll20), but shutting them down after I noticed that there was already some other instance (ttrpg) filling a similar need.
I'll gladly get the instances out of my back, if they grow to the point that enough people are using it and willing to moderate it. But they are never going to grow if key members in the network keep rejecting it on the grounds of "I don't trust it", will it?
Aside from the differences that Communick is a commercial venture while the "larger" instances are "begware", I honestly don't know what is that I am asking that makes people reject it so vehemently.
I agree with most of what you are saying.
I guess in this case programming.dev is a solid choice enough for a !linux community, in the same vein as ttrpg.network was for DnD and RPG.
@sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al what do you think?
On a completely different level, I would gladly give a few communities back to other people. I guess there are only so many people having time and energy to keep the whole thing alive, and we are all stretched a bit too thin.
Instance management is a much more important commitment than moderation, though.
It's important but it isn't a huge amount of work, especially if you have a good team to spread the load.
It also helps that I am running a managed instance hosting business, and I should be more comfortable doing this than the average hobbyist?
Yes, I'd imagine there are efficiencies to doing that - we inherited a thriving medium-sized instance so, despite one of the team having spun up their own Lemmy instance, there was a lot of "learning on the job" required to get everything humming along nicely. I imagine that, with more experience it becomes easier.
On the other hand, having a lot of instances managed by you increase the impact in case something happens
Then can we do it with one, maybe?
I guess we could. For soccer.forum, as I said, it's too close to the Euro for a migration, we can maybe revisit later?
But actually I just remembered there was https://fanaticus.social/