Hi all,
As you may or may not know, .ml domains may be getting seized by the Mali government. As such, we may need to launch the community on another instance. Here’s a few options I’ve considered:
- Lemmy.world - The “big” instance besides lemmy.ml. Although the Fediverse is supposed to be distributed.
- Midwest.social - I don’t think many people would consider Louisville “South” unlike other parts of Kentucky.
- Launching mylem.alachian.app - I’ll be running a server for another project here soon and I can throw this one up as well. Although, it’ll be a trial by fire
- Some other instance
What do you all think?
I’d lean towards the first two personally. Although I can understand that going with a large instance goes against the spirit of federated sites, there’s plenty of work that goes into maintaining an instance, without even getting into the building & moderation of individual communities.
IMO, I think it’d be more beneficial to focus on problems around building a community, rather than solving the problems of maintaining a new instance on top of the former.
Has this already happened? This and louisville.sh.itjust.works are the only ones I’ve found so far