Blahaj Lemmy Meta

To be honest, the whole reddit disaster caught us by surprise. We had a lemmy instance that was basically spun up for me to experiment with, and that I really enjoyed. We had open registrations, but were lucky to get 3 in a week, and most of those users weren't active.

So until a week ago, it was basically just me. And then BOOM!

Almost overnight, this place became a community. And unlike blahaj.zone itself, which was always designed to be that, I didn't really have that in mind for lemmy.blahaj.zone, because lemmy was so quiet.

We might turn off registration at some point in favour of our upcoming kbin instance, or we might not. It will depend on how lemmy scales in terms of hardware and moderation needs.

Either way, community is incredibly important to me, so whatever else happens, lemmy.blahaj.zone is here to stay, because planned or not, it has turned in to a thriving community.

There's been a little bit of mention of this below, but I also registered today as a long time reddit user. I was scrolling through instances and seeing sweet Blåhaj made me feel at home. Finding a queer affirming community is difficult on the internet and I was relieved to find a place where that's at the forefront.

It seems that the rate of registration and the technical/moderation upkeep are the correct technical answer, but for my vote, I'd love to see it stay open for a long time.

The admin for this instance said in this post that she may shut down registration once she gets the kbin she has been planning on making up and running, but she will be leaving it open for now.

I'd guess it depends on what role the operators want to play here... Is absorbing (the good parts of) that community a goal? This seems like the most impactful time to keep the doors open if so, to try and help the network reach a critical mass.

Otoh maybe this community comes first and they're more interested in ensuring the lights stay on during the chaos.

I just came from reddit today so I definitely don't speak for anyone here :) but that seems like the determining factor?