Oh wait, IT COSTS MONEY?!? Oh noo… Anyway, I wanted the help smaller indie game communities get shown, so they won’t have to be spread across 20 different generic instances.
Comment on r/Silksong joins Lemmy
SmolSteely@lemmynsfw.com 3 weeks ago
Why set up a Lemmy instance instead of creating a community on an existing instance?
Now you have to worry about hosting costs, domain renewal etc.
ssnoer@indie-ver.se 2 weeks ago
baatliwala@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Bit weird if they already didn’t take into consideration the costs of running a server
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
Because they like the fediverse and want to help it grow. Or maybe they didn’t want to have to deal with admins ever again.
SmolSteely@lemmynsfw.com 2 weeks ago
If they really have the commitment to run that instance for years, and to organise a proper successor one day when they don’t want to do it any more - that would be growing the Fediverse. But if they abandon it after x years, they would be harming it.
ssnoer@indie-ver.se 2 weeks ago
I’ve tried to document the infrastructure around it, and made everything super organized, so that it’s both easier to maintain and hand over in case that’s ever needed.