I wonder, do instance admins or community mods ever have (virtual) meetups? That might be therapeutic and could possibly expose problems before they become too big to solve.
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poVoq@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
Well, not a bad idea in general, but the problem identification is kinda wrong.
Fediverse instances usually don’t shut down because of a lack of funds / donations, and for those that do, the core issue isn’t the donation side, but rather the expense side with over-engineered and overly expensive cloud services usually at fault.
More commonly Fediverse instances shut down because the original creator lost interest or feels overwhelmed with the day to day reality of managing a community, as opposed to just doing the technical work to keep it running.
artifex@piefed.social 1 day ago
mesamunefire@piefed.social 1 day ago
Ive seen a couple of matrix groups. Mostly one piefed and general fediverse. They are somewhat talkative.
mesamunefire@piefed.social 1 day ago
True, theres a lot of people that get burnt out hosting their own platforms or doing it for other people. Anything that makes keeping the instance up to date easy and reliable for the hosters will make burnout a much rarer occurrence.
abeorch@friendica.ginestes.es 1 day ago
mesamunefire@piefed.social 1 day ago
Im currently running about 10 services (couple of them fedi) on yunohost. Its good enough and stable enough for my familys needs.
Gotosocial has a MUCH smaller footprint than mastodon if someone is looking to host their own social media. Pixelfed isnt all that huge and peertube sips bandwidth if you have a personal account and thats it.
Younohost is great for less than 10 instances. For everything else there is services like: https://masto.host/ (fully recommend!!!)
But yeah an all in one device would be neat. I think a lot of the fedi is still in beta mode. Docker containers that brak daily kinda thing.