rglullis

It also helps that I am running a managed instance hosting business, and I should be more comfortable doing this than the average hobbyist?

You really dislike "main", huh?

There is also !talk@soccer.forum, if you prefer.

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.

Yes. I do have someone who can take over Communick and has enough know-how to manage things or at least ensure that an orderly transition is possible.

Still, the best way to guarantee that Communick will be around for the next decades to come is by making sure that it becomes a viable business.

What is your base image? It has no python installed.

There is no way to know without access to the admin dashboard. You can get an idea of how active an instance is by checking the federated timeline stream, though.

If you are the admin of the instance, you can it set up.

If you don't have that problem, it is either because your instance is well connected and/or using some relay.

FWIW, all server-based software works like that. Lemmy, Pixelfed, Pleroma...

What we need is more clients implementing the C2S spec, but I will refrain from getting into another tirade about this.

+1 for mander.xyz. I'd also like to take this opportunity to see if @sal@mander.xyz would be interesting in joining me on https://fediverser.network, as it is one of the most interesting topic-based instances. It would be a great home to all the science-related subreddits and moderators that would be interested in migrating.

I just pointed out "the old times" to respond to your idea that "it has always been this way".

It's funny how young people think that the world has been invented the moment they were born. Everything that came before that can be simply erased.

that it skews too much to the right.

Ok. According to you, extremism and othering is okay when done by a leftist.

Thank you very much for showing your true colors. You can go now...

Yeah, it would take one person on the bigger instances to do it. We can promote them in !newcommunities@lemmy.world and things should get bootstrapped.