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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hi, i try to answer your questions as good as i can:

How does one create communities?

Currently, the community creation is only allowed for admins. Simply, because it was the default and i would keep it a little more restrictive at the beginning to not get flooded with communities, etc. I try to keep the amount of communities small at the beginning, until the need for new ones arises. But i'm open to ideas.

Where is this hosted and how can we support?

It is hosted on a server with encrypted disks in the Azure Zurich datacenter. It's not the cheapest solution, but it works very well and is scalable if necessary. Right now, i'm happy if people are invested in these communities and communicate with each other. What kind of support would you like to offer?

Can this be run as a DAO?

What do you mean by DAO?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Makes sense. /Geneva?

You're awesome! Dunno, I always paid for reddit because I got value from it and people need to live. I find this an interesting problem and opportunity to define new commons, but the time required to find a longterm solution may go beyond what you're willing to invest alone.

"A DAO is a decentralized autonomous organization, a type of bottom-up entity structure with no central authority. Members of a DAO own tokens of the DAO, and members can vote on initiatives for the entity. Smart contracts are implemented for the DAO, and the code governing the DAO's operations is publicly disclosed." (Googled)

I think it's super you're doing this, but now it's in your hands (vs reddit shareholders), for better or worse. The domain, hosting, effort, and liability(?). While we're at it, we could exploit more new ideas including those for governance. I'm not sure how much I can contribute, my tech know how is limited.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Makes sense. /Geneva?

Would i be specific for Geneva topics or could it be a bit broad like for the western part of Switzerland? If enough people are invested in such a community, why not.

You’re awesome! Dunno, I always paid for reddit because I got value from it and people need to live. I find this an interesting problem and opportunity to define new commons, but the time required to find a longterm solution may go beyond what you’re willing to invest alone.

Thanks, i appreciate it. I already thought about it, but i didn't come to any conclusion yet, because a federated network only works if there are a bunch of systems working together, the more the better. If there are only a few, the load is very concentrated and we have a few people who have to reach in there pocket to keep the systems running. As of right now, i'm happy to invest something for the community.

“A DAO is a decentralized autonomous organization, a type of bottom-up entity structure with no central authority. Members of a DAO own tokens of the DAO, and members can vote on initiatives for the entity. Smart contracts are implemented for the DAO, and the code governing the DAO’s operations is publicly disclosed.” (Googled)

Thanks for the clarification, at first i didn't get the abbreviation, but then i answered you in a separate comment.

I think it’s super you’re doing this, but now it’s in your hands (vs reddit shareholders), for better or worse. The domain, hosting, effort, and liability(?). While we’re at it, we could exploit more new ideas including those for governance. I’m not sure how much I can contribute, my tech know how is limited.

Correct. The cool thing about the fediverse is, if you do not like how i or some other instance owner manages it's instance, you can register on an other one which suits you better. As i said before, the fediverse is interesting, because there are lots of systems working together and exchanging information. If one goes down, there are plenty of others, which can take over.

There are a lot of topics to consider and make up your mind about, i'm happy to discuss it. I created a public matrix.org space https://matrix.to/#/#fedditch:matrix.org for chat-like discussions (everything end-to-end encrypted). As of right now, i try to keep things as simple as possible and as privacy friendly for the user, as possible.

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