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Colorado Server Interest
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I like this idea. I need to think on it some more though.
I'm also curious to see what happens when/if the Reddit blackout ends, and if Lemmy continues growing.
I have been thinking about this more and I’m thinking that it is almost necessary. Right now lemmy.world is operated by dude in Germany. While this benevolent dude is letting us all pile in here for free could change on a whim or a personal circumstance change of that dude.
A Colorado based instance would be a great landing pad for many, and a great insurance policy for the rest of us. If another instance goes away suddenly, we would have a place to fall back to and rebuild.
I’m currently trying to go at this fediverse operation full steam. I have 3 mastodon accounts (because I didn’t understand it at first, and could only just recently get a mastodon.social account). I also have pixelfed account and obviously this lemmy.world account. For me it is not terribly difficult to manage several accounts, and the apps clearly are ready/expecting several accounts.
I don’t see the necessity of it but I wouldn’t mind joining it. The only thing is, is that unless I understand it wrong I think you would need to create a new account specifically for that instance if you aren’t going to use the world one
If you have an existing account somewhere there isn't a huge incentive to make a new account. Only reason you'd have to is if you wanted to make communities and moderate on the instance. Main benefit would be for new people creating accounts to distribute the load.
Yeah I gotcha wouldn’t be a bad idea
I will participate.
https://lemmy.world/c/colorado already exists. Not a lot of traffic yet, but that can/will change I'm sure. A dedicated server isn't really needed for a single community, but running a dedicated Lemmy server isn't terribly difficult (I'm doing so already).
It wouldn't be for a single community, can have all kinds of communities just geared towards people living in Colorado. For example there could be a skiing community, hiking, specific cities, all the typical Colorado stuff.
I see! That does make good sense then!
would there be any benefit to this over just using lemmy.world, sh.itjust.works, etc?
On the surface no, not really, but the point of Lemmy and the fediverse is to be decentralized, and everyone congregating on a handful of servers defeats the point. I also personally think structuring instances by region makes a lot of sense and helps newcomers more easily choose a sever to join, rather than just the most popular one or a random one.
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this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2023
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