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.
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.
That's nuts, I'm glad I didn't open my instance up for sign-ups. But yeah if it's making up the bulk of blahaj.zones costs it's still going to cost a lot for this to host it so idk why you'd switch, just donate money to blahaj.zone if you want to help with the costs.
Like I just really don't like dude trying to get other communities to host with him, it just seems too much like centralization and the whole point of this stuff is decentralization.