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Comment on What existing organizations should start hosting fediverse instances? Which ones are already doing so? Finally, what's a good community to organize this stuff?

Hjalamanger@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Some organisation I think could run instances:

churches could run a Mastodon instance (maybe godwills.it, that domain is not in use)
some European science agency could run an instance. preferably this would be an Lemmy instance so that you could follow fields. That would probably demand some from of community nesting so that you could have things like an “math” community with the subcommunity “number theory” and a way of controlling who can post in the communities.
I feel like it would make sense for governments to run fediverse instances that could both be used as general purpose instances by the people of that country and a channel for news communication. Some governments could maybe take over the local instance for that country (I haven’t talked to the mods but I’m thinking of feddit.nu and feddit.dk)
the scouts should run some instance, either locally or globally. As a scout I would love that :)
libraries/book shops could run bookwyrm instances. This could also help them recommend books to customers based on data from there bookwyrm instance.

Regarding film instances I think it’s best if that’s community run as I can’t see any organisation who wouldn’t bamboozle it and wants to run it. And community run instances can work if you have more then one moderator

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otter@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
This is the kind of response I was hoping for, thank you :)

Churches and religious organizations would be interesting! I hadn’t thought of that and it could lead to some cool discussions

The science agencies would be cool too. We have mander.xyz, but I worry about if they run out of funding or have other issues down the road. If nesting isn’t possible, they could do something like BeeHaw where they create the communities themselves, and set aside a page to direct to each of them.

I also didn’t think about the scouts and libraries, those would be cool too :)

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- Hjalamanger@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Didn’t know of mander.xyz, thank you :)
  
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  - otter@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    No problem, hope you find some cool stuff in the meantime!
    
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