I concur and am actively researching this issue as well. I, for example created my own instance but am not entirely sure I should be the one to host yet another Selfhosted community. I am hoping for a dominate 2/3 of them to win out, preferably lemmy.ml as it was the first I discovered. Alas, you asked a very pertinent question that I think you should keep searching to find. I did see the owner on Lemmy.world actually responding to his thread...

We should absolutely instill the desire to keep this community alive though.

I absolutely loved reading wholesome content like this. That's a great idea! We should collectively work together to shape how we want our future year to be!

I wonder if we could petition Lemmy.ml to make the adjustment? I'm not positive how the mod roles function just yet.

Proxmox at home xD

and rightly so imo… why waste the time to make hyperlinks of every minor nuance… “increased the ban notes character limit” xD ha!

I was very glad to see the community speak their minds though.

Indeed - today something finally toppled in the internet realms. I felt it, and I created my first instance and joined. I'm sure many others will to.

I even ran into a few difficulties setting up my instance not yet documented but added a few comments to the relevant github threads. It's happening, and fast.

I think ultimately that is going to be the goal. Security advocates for years have insisted that we OWN our own data.

I will be happy to share and keep people up to date with my projects over on my Lemmy Instance among other places. Please feel free to write anytime!

I'm honestly just spending the majority of my day cruising around looking for all the new communities to find myself in. Welcome to the Fediverse!

I would be curious if there might be a way to give some sort of “attribute of credibility” that we could come up with.

It cost me nothing really to add the instance but I've yet to add a bunch of people talking and communicating - thus filling my drives... In the past I used the Matrix protocol and while it's entirely different I think for a moderate community we should be able to last a good year on a TB if we has some reasonable limitations on size.

While I’m immediately tempted to request to be made a mod, I’m going to wait a day or so and see how frequently other new members start posting.

This is my day one, so not ideal for me to make any assertions or claims. I do enjoy the spirit that we have though so far.

I think this is one of the first pushes where convivences don't mesh with security. We have been taken advantage of for a very long time, and very easily. This type of diversification I feel will ultimately be healthy.

I’m a sense I promoted that idea because I believe that communication should be open and free. Frankly, I do agree with you that keeping the community to mildly tech savvy folks is quite nice indeed.

I welcome and look forward to reading everyone’s thoughts on the issue. I made some large posts because I wanted new folks to see they could come here - not that they will stick around ultimately.

It’ll be up to them.

I had been having a bunch of issues attempting to connect different communities from there to my instance - so it wouldn't surprise me xD

I agree, which is why I offered no solution as of yet… I suppose best we have right now is resounding opinion of ‘most liked’ in a thread. I suppose that would lean itself to revealing the idea which holds the highest consensus.

In some tech groups, it may become feasible for malicious actors to feign intelligence, and that’s partly what I’m hoping this slowly curtails. Use of LLM and the rest in our discourse.

Stay strong!

I have so far been able to access and post on everyone else’s instance from my own. I do struggle with searching but I’ve considered that to be due to the large amount of people. Example was when beehaw crashed the other day.

So far, it’s been simple enough.

You're always welcome to sign up with mine xD hahaha xD

I think ultimately, you use one, and then can use that account to affiliate with any other server on the fediverse. I created my own because I also was confused as to why I should pick one server over another when in essence my own should be sufficient.

I kinda write biased so I could spur precisely this sort of stimulating response. What will it mean when the large cluster of people aren't quite as readily available though... and finding the hidden communities is once again about being 'in the know'... I'm really just musing over here as I watch the world...