Not too hard tbh, I had a bird themed one going for like 3 days. I’d love to join a smaller instance tbh, and would happily volunteer to help with one.
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sasquash@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
Very sad to hear but totally understandable. Unfortunately, this will make the centralization of lemmy world even worse.
How much effort is it actually to host a small instance? I am thinking about hosting one mostly for my self. Mainly because I am interested in the technology. Also my country doesn’t have one so that could be a topic too if there is some interest. But hearing this I am not so sure anymore. I can’t put many hours into it each week just to keep it running.
Zealousideal_Fox_900@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
blackn1ght@feddit.uk 2 days ago
Sounds like it’s not the technical side that’s too difficult, but managing the users.
Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yeah moderation is the biggest challenge on Lemmy servers, they ended up making it more challenging for themselves with the decision to never defederate from any instance and lean all the way into the hysteria surrounding defederation. That’s really not a sustainable model for the long term, it increases workload, and drives off portions of the userbase who are sensitive to extreme or aggressive people (the people who run wild if you never defederate troll instances or ban trolls).