Comment on Proposal to create a collective to own the topic-based Lemmy instances

• rglullis@communick.news ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Just coordinate the release of the urls and the transfer of the instance.

  This is exactly what I am offering. I want to transfer these instances to a consortium to own this collectively.

  without putting any work or money into it.

  Just yesterday I renewed 10 of these domains. That cost me ~400€. I renewed nba.space and nfl.community last month, each cost ~650€. Running all these instances is costing me ~200€/month.

  I’m not even looking to dump these costs on the potential new co-owners, this is why I said that I don’t mind keep running them.

  It seems like you are waiting for the next influx to potentially monetize

  First, we’d have to argue the implication. You are implying that any attempt at building anything that is financially sustainable is immoral, something that I said many times is completely misguided, and a point of view that is starting now to be shared by other prominent figures in the Fediverse.

  Second, I am offering the instances to be co-owned precisely to assuage those concerns. By having other admins co-owning the instances, I’d hope that less people would be pushing those accusations against me.

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  • Blaze@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Just yesterday I renewed 10 of these domains. That cost me ~400€. I renewed nba.space and nfl.community last month, each cost ~650€. Running all these instances is costing me ~200€/month.

    Thank you for providing the numbers, these domains are quite pricey if you have to pay 1700 € per year on domains alone.

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    • rglullis@communick.news ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Stop thinking in terms of prices, and start thinking in terms of value. A three-letter domain for less than 1000€ is a bargain.

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      • Blaze@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’m thinking in terms of costs because those could prevent any admins potentially interested in joining you to do so.

        Lemmy.ml still runs on a server which costs 80€ per month (lemmy.ml/comment/13507604). A .ml domain name costs 61€ per year on gandi.

        Your hosting costs are 2.5x higher, your domain costs are 27 times higher.

        Maybe you’ll find other admins who agree with you that it’s worth it.

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      • mriormro@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You sound like a grifter.

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  • Grimy@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So are you willing to give up ownership of the url and have the instance be transfered to someone else’s hardware?

    Maybe I misunderstood where you are going with this.

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    • rglullis@communick.news ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      To be precise, I’m willing to give up some ownership. I still want to participate in its governance.

      someone else’s hardware?

      If a new consortium is formed and if the collective decision is to move it, yes. If the decision is to keep as it is, also fine.

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