Should I move this community?
I think I’m going to migrate this community to Lemmy.world or Lemmy.zip. I love PieFed, but I’d rather wait until things are a little more stable before I consider PieFed.social.
I think world and zip are both fantastic options. Lemm.ee leaves me a little worried that any instance can shut down at any point. I’d prefer to pick whatever instance is least likely to shut down. I do think Lemmy.ml is pretty safe from shutdown, since it’s run by Lemmy maintainers, but I’m worried I’m reducing my audience since many people block ml.
Any thoughts?
Not that many people seem to block Lemmy.ml, primarily because it's the dev instance.
Why would a standard user care about the dev instance? Admins, I would understand, mods maybe, but standard users?
https://infosec.pub/ has 348 monthly active users (so, around the same numbers as instances likes midwest.social or reddthat.com) and defederates from it.
Because it has a lot of active communities like Memes, AskLemmy, Privacy, Linux, and more.
https://lemmyverse.net/communities?order=active , in the top 20 most active communities weekly, there is only one lemmy.ml community
The Lemmy.ml communities are still active, though. We don't all need to consolidate into the biggest of similar communities, that goes against the fediverse structure.
My point was more that if an instance defederates lemmy.ml, the instance doesn't lose much, there are alternatives to all the .ml communities (and that does indeed follow the fediverse structure).
But again, most instances aren't defederated from Lemmy.ml. Seems like you just really want people to defed.
I don't, I'm just saying that people are blocking .ml
https://piefed.social/comment/7712510
https://piefed.social/comment/7601405
https://lemmy.world/comment/18190083
https://piefed.social/comment/6931899
https://sh.itjust.works/comment/19223080
https://lemm.ee/comment/21076067
https://lemmy.world/comment/17560631
https://midwest.social/comment/17924609
https://sh.itjust.works/comment/18859301
I can go on for a long time, but you get the idea.
Actually I remember us having a similar conversation 10 months ago: https://sopuli.xyz/post/18211534/12491063
Lemmy.zip would be a great choice !
Out of curiosity, other than wanting to balance the growth of the threadiverse, was there another reason to prefer zip over world?
The great reports provided monthly: https://lemmy.zip/post/45366675
The admin is very responsive, every time I encounter a small issue it's usually fixed within the day. They are very nice too, on top of that.
That report looks sick! I also got the impression that the admins are very nice. I just also wanna make sure I chose a stable home for the community. Just want to be extra cautious after ee, shut down.
Yes of course. Same for me, and as you can guess, the lemmy.zip reports always provide good insights on how the instance is doing
Yes.
Thanks to Blorp’s impressive search function, I could see that there is a community but it quickly disappeared. I had to unblock the instance in order to join the community. My time and experience online has been delightful IMO due to my ever-growing block list. I only know about 80+ people IRL who have that instance blocked and that’s not a lot.
IMO, many Blorp users will follow the community regardless. This seems to be a strong community that would be willing to support other Blorp users and that’s what really matters.
PieFed sounds lovely, I might end up there.
If you do migrate the community I'd go with lemmy.zip. It federates with pretty much anything that isn't illegal (lemmy.zip de federation vs lemmy.ml and lemmy.world), I don't think anyone blocks it (there are some people who block lemmy.world), it appears financially stable according to their reports, it has been around for sometime (not the oldest, but not new), it hosts a blorp instance and hasn't had (to my knowledge) any controversial administrative decisions.
That being said, I personally don't care if the community is on .ml, I'd probably just wait till piefed is more established and then reconsider (especially since it has a move community function).
On an unrelated note I think there is a typo in the GitHub readme, the last word is “ap” not “app”
Aren't you already hosting a Lemmy instance to test on? Would be coolest to have this community on ![email protected] or whatever domain
I am, but idk if I wanna open that up to federation. Hosting a public instance would likely take up more of my time. I wanna just focus on building Blorp.
That makes sense, hosting an instance can take quite a lot of time
You wouldn't need to upen it up to user-signup, just only host the community on it and all the users would be remote ones!
If people start posting CSAM content to that community it would still be something he would need to handle
🎼 Where You go, I’ll go
Where you stay, I’ll stay 🎶
Of the two I would rather .zip, but they geo block the UK. No idea how many uk users you have, and if that would affect you.
The only reason I have not blocked .ml is this community and Mlem are on here.
The instance geoblocking the UK has no impact on UK users, they can access communities just fine using federation: https://feddit.uk/c/[email protected]
There is also the option of piefed.blorp.tld