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Awesome, thanks!
You remember when people were putting up their own static “front page” to the web? I mean, because the web was still small enough that individuals could still reasonably curate their own little corner of it? It was like if Reddit was just a little cottage tucked away in the English countryside, instead of some massive metropolitan bus station.
It’s unfortunate, but understandable. There’s no shame in admitting when you’ve bitten off more than you can chew. It happens to a lot of mods. Thank you for the work you’ve put in, and I wish you the best.
Is there any word on who the new admin is going to be? What should us users expect, moving forward?
It’s not reasonable or practical to tell someone to ‘go and make your own instance’.
It’s even less reasonable to tell someone to give up control of their instance in order to meet your desires. You aren’t the one running this place, so you don’t get to make the rules. The beauty of decentralization is that it’s far more reasonable to tell someone to create their own Lemmy instance than it is to tell them to create their own Reddit.
Are you actually aware of the costs and difficulties in hosting alone, let alone management?
Yes, actually. I was involved in the discussions on this very topic on Pluspora, a Diaspora pod that was created as a temporary lifeboat for Google+ refugees. The cost per user for even a small fediverse server is less than $2/year, and that number gets smaller as the userbase grows. the userbase can cover that cost via GoFundMe donations or Patreon contributions, just as they do on this instance.
It’s not a viable solution for most, let alone a relatively small niche that fits into a community or two.
Short of taking control over someone else’s instance, it’s the most viable solution available. There’s no easier way to start your own online social group than with open source decentralized social media. If you can’t be bothered to do that, then abide by the social contract of the instance you’re on, because it’s not yours.
For perspective:
r/GothStyle has 159k subscribers, r/tarot has 306k, r/cycling has 348k, r/rpg and r/political humor have 1.5m each, r/ExplainLikeImFive has 22.3m, and r/AskReddit has 41.4m.
Make of that what you will. I’m just giving numbers.
It’s the blank stare directly upwards that’s most relatable.
Did it feel like… half a dozen excited kids finding each other to explore a vast, empty, yet still interesting globe with @ symbols, virtual greeting cards and cool pictures of space stuff?
… more or less, yeah.
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My vote is that we ban it here. I think the best solution for these issues is to have at least two NSFW instances. One that’s more tightly moderated and more socially acceptable, and a second that’s run with a more Libertarian wildboi flair. Business up front, party in the back. Maybe call the other one something like LemmyTrueNSFW, or LemmyWildNSFW, or something like that. This is how Federation achieves censorship-resistance. It allows a space for those on the fringe, while preventing the fringe from overwhelming the normie majority.