I’d like to see a sports specific instance (just something like lemmy.sport) so we could have all the sport communities on one instance, rather than all over the place, and also avoid the weird politics and who’s (not) federated with who issues.
That has been exactly my reasoning when I created the topic specific instances, and I have been trying to convince @blaze@feddit.org to get out of LW and into !talk@soccer.forum
Regarding a “general” sports instance, I have setup https://athletic.center/ some long ago, but never got to create communities for it. I was thinking of using it for less sports that are less “professional” and more suitable for hobby practitioners (e.g, sailing, skiing, diving, swimming, CrossFit, etc) the main reason, to be totally honest, is that sport.* are quite expensive.
For people curious, we had a long discussion last week: https://feddit.org/post/2471872/1817865
In summary
- I’m still not convinced on rglullis’ business model, relying on 30$ yearly subscription to keep running the instances (I’m afraid that after a while, he’ll get tired of trying and then will have to shut down all the instances due to costs)
- I’m not a moderator of !football@lemmy.world , so it’s not even my community
I’m still not convinced on rglullis’ business model
They need $300000 - $450000 a year to live in minimal comfort? Sounds real modest :)
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Running the topic based instances are not the main costs. Even if I went to shut down Communick (I won’t, because believe it or not it’s getting close to break even) the last thing I would let go are the domains, which can/could be easily transferred to some organization.
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I can make you moderator of the communities, so it would be one more reason to move there?
