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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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[-] sorrybookbroke@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, I'd be worried about the community dying due to lack of funds instead of engagement. It only takes a month or two for that to happen. Even if the host is decent about it charity can only go so far. I'd vote to not become a new instance as cool as that sounds.

Edit: I'd rather see funds go to a place like blahaj to keep it up and thriving. That'd be a much better use of money

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