Edit edit: pls stop voting we already decided. read the post title. I love blahaj.zone and personally wanted to stay.
EDIT-I feel the need to clarify that I don’t really care either way, I have no ambitions to be an instance admin, I just want to do whatever’s best/preferredf or the community-
Hello everyone, I’m making this post because I have received a very enticing offer that I think we as a community should consider.
Ruud from lemmy.world has reached out and offered to set up our own instance under the domain of 196.social, hosted on lemmy.world’s hardware. This would allow the community to exist as a separate entity from any one instance, while also improving stability, as it would not be impacted by The same volume of hacks or attacks. It would also not be affected by Lemmy.worlds downtime as it would be fully separate.
The one trade-off is that we would have to fund this ourselves. Ruud says he is more than willing to cover the costs initially until we get some sort of funding set up, but after that grace period we would have to crowdsource the money. He says that the expenses of running a one community instance are very low, however. especially if we don’t allow account creation, so it would not take many people to fund it per month.
Please vote in the comments whether we should remain on blahaj.zone, or migrate to our own instance.
Lemmy.world has had so much downtime lately I’m not sure it’s a great idea to tie yourselves to their instance.
Nono That’s what I’m saying we would be unaffected by their downtime as it would be a completely separate instance.
If you’re unaffected by the downtime go for it I just have concerns regarding Lemmy.world, and ngl it kind of rubs me the wrong way that the instance admin is, at least as it appears to me, poaching communities from other instances to host on his hardware. Was there an issue with blahaj.zone I’m unaware of?
The only issue is that 196 makes up a huge chunk of blahaj.zone’s operating costs, which is currently $3000 a month. But the admins are taking care of it and are currently working on changing how the instance is hosted to be more cost efficient. They’ve also said they don’t blame 196 for the costs and are fine with 196 remaining here.
So there really isn’t much reason to move elsewhere.
Happy sticking around here, for my vote
I guess I’m a little confused, is it fully separate or is it part of lemmy.world’s hardware? If the server were to go down wouldn’t it also affect the new instance? And what additional steps would be taken to make it more secure than lemmy.world?
It seems a good deal to me. But are there any downsides other than the community being tied to lemmy.world?
I’m just afraid this defeats the idea of federation because it may be a precedent for large communities “centralizing” with large instances.
Ruud says he is more than willing to cover the costs initially until we get some sort of funding set up, but after that grace period we would have to crowdsource the money.
How about getting funding handled first and then considering it.
Funding is an issue no matter how you slice it.
If you set it up elsewhere, then fail to secure funding, then it gets shut down, what then? Like may as well just shut it down to begin with if you haven’t gotten funding figured out, because that will be the outcome. Site lost, because funding wasn’t handled first. This an example of “putting the cart before the horse.”
