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I'm with you there. I think there's value in specialized instances.

The internet used to be small, but expansive. It became big, but concentrated.

— @Kichae@kbin.social - source

Before Facebook and Twitter and Reddit became the gen-pop's definition of "the Internet," there were a lot of forums and chat rooms for specific interests, or specific groups of interests. The problem was that you'd need an account with each one of those forums and chat servers.

Federation allows us to go back to small communities, expansive network, but with the added advantage of only really needing one account for all of it.

Personally, I would be interested in setting up a play-by-post, or an RP (freeform, with dice, etc) instance. At least, test and see how the format could work within something like Lemmy. Probably not well! But you never know.

The lack of plugin support might be a hurdle...or an opportunity. I suppose one could make a dice-rolling bot for Lemmy 🤔

My motivation for something like this is mostly that the more people with federated accounts, the easier it will be for people to participate and not have to worry about yet another account creation process. In fact, for something this specialize, I could run lemmy as a blogging platform. The setup is made so that moderators of communities can create posts but anyone can comment on them. That way, GMs would be the mods of their own campaign communities and responsible for starting new threads as needed.

It's not a fully fleshed out idea. In fact, it's something I cobbled together just now. So I haven't considered the pros and cons and other obvious hurdles.

I think small, specialized instances could work for certain hobbies. For example, a LEGO focused instance could include a variety of communities (e.g. castles, Star Wars, vintage LEGO, etc.). That might be easier to manage.

EDIT: Whoops, please ignore this, I have no idea how it landed in the thread about Lemmy's organisation and not the introduction thread :(

Hello there hawbeeists (I'll just steal that, if you don't mind, @ashen@beehaw.org :D) So, since I am bad at introductions, here's a quick overview of my day, since nothing too special happened: At my job as Quality Manager for a CO2 extraction company ("extracting foodstuffs like sunflower using CO2 to get sunflower extract", not "doing something to get CO2"), I have been reading up on my country's laws regarding processing insects.

Also, I plan to look over the bachelor's thesis of a good friend of mine who studies aerospace engineering.

At home, I went outside with my two dogs (a 1 year old Eurasian and a ~6 year old Spitz mix) and until a couple minutes ago I played a round of Natural Selection 2 (playing Xenos, naturally).

Edit: Oh and one cool thing: I repaired my headset by cutting off the broken headset jack and soldering on a new one. So ya, new skill unlocked!

I think I'd go for an anarchist style thing. Use direct community input, consensus voting, and sortition for selection mods.

Correct me if I’m wrong but you can’t make communities on other instances right? So if I wanted to create a community on your new instance about a sub sub community for TTRPG I would have to make a local account right?