I’ve had this idea as well, and I definitely see some benefits though as stated in the thread by someone else, most admins would want to be on a groups instance and not a users instance and I’m not sure how to combat that. The thought that occurred to me was a lemmy federation compatible community only instance server that could augment the current thrediverse landscape. Essentially making it easier to spin up a community for your topic than it is to spin up a while new instance. It would still be easiest to just make a community on your main user instance but it would introduce a new difficulty level for communities to run separate without standing up a whole Lemmy instance.
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rglullis@communick.news 2 months ago
Maybe we can take this as an opportunity to understand the importance of separating “instance for groups” and “instance for users”?
fuzzzerd@programming.dev 2 months ago
Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Doesn’t really solve the issue, admins will all want to manage an instance for groups rather than instance for users as that would avoid much of the drama.
rglullis@communick.news 2 months ago
And that is bad why…?
scintilla@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
The people that want to be in charge of large groups of people are often the people you least want to be under.
rglullis@communick.news 2 months ago
This argument applies more to “instance with lots of users and groups” (what we have now) than “communities with lots of users on topic-specific instances”, so I don’t think this is the problem here.