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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by moss to c/196

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.

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[-] ezri 63 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The Blahaj admins have said they're fine with us staying here, so I don't see much point in moving. Also do you really want to have to start doing fundraising for 196?

Feels like you keep looking to move without actually talking to the admins (who commented repeatedly on your last post). If you want to move, do it. But I won't be contributing financially if you decide to move to your own instance, there's a place for us here and it works fine.

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