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i didn't realize that would be an issue for people. I've seen these instances more like the PHPBB forums from the days before the big services took over.
I thought the idea with lemmy was that the instances would tend to be grouped by topic/area so it makes sense that the people running a tech instance would also be involved in creating/running the tech communities on that instance. Some are more purpose-built than others tho.
mine is purpose built and I simply created the communities to match the flair we were using. Does seem like all the instances may need to make more docs on hows and whys of what they are and thier goals.
mine is pretty obv, big ol INTEGRATED AI at the top and pictures of robots!
even back then though, everyone had a shitpost lounge.
I don't know if that's really required, there will probably be a mix of specialized and general servers when things settle down which is probably fine. And after the feature for moving communities is done, then they could be grouped or redistributed.
Salamander did the same as you https://mander.xyz/u/Sal and is listed as a mod on nearly all the communities. But I don't really know if "pre-making" a bunch of communities is great for growth cuz when I started here, I found a bunch of machine learning ones but they all seemed dead. Like I've been posting stuff in the community I started just so there's something there and people can get a feel for what it's about.
For me I am not as-concerned about growth, the sub started like the old reddit subs, as a link list I was sharing as part of my own research into the topic. If we had tags or flair I would prefer it frankly.
My team and I use the list and wanted to share. Moving off reddit gave me excuse to take control of more of my internet presence and I have gobs of cheap compute so chill instances! Would be great if others wanted to participate but even on reddit it was mainly a quiet link list with a couple hundred subs.
Have to say I'm really enjoying the speed of an instance fronted with cloudflare.
True, it's feasible to be an active mod when the communities are small but you'd pretty quickly need to bring in other mods if they start growing too big. It's certainly nice to have smaller communities around for some topics but for some to function well, they do kind of need a certain amount of active users. I know there's some concern about too few servers that have all the large communities as well.
I think as more people are intrested in the project, more features will get added eventually.
? I though cloudflare disabled domain fronting?
Back before centralization I'd run communities up to 10k with less than 5 mods while doing physical events and meets (those I rounded up more help). You need more for bigger but really, if the fediverse was a bunch of smaller <10k communities power balance across the network would be better. Ideally you want a diverse network that avoids consolidation.
As for CF, thats pretty much the entire service. They now have a full zero trust setup too so you can put your entire backoffice infra in the loop if you want. I've served a number of sites in the 50k uniques range from this and simple static file servers for a number of apps including live data feeds. Had to bump to the $20 a month plan during a peak season but mostly i get by on the free stuff.