General Discussion
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This is a community for general discussion where you can get your bearings in the fediverse. Discuss topics & ask questions that don't seem to fit in any other community, or don't have an active community yet.
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0. See: Rules for Users.
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Doneβ¦one more drop in a bucket we might all come to treasure.
So, you know, a nice bucket. With like a handle on it. A sturdy one. Also, a quality bucket made of sturdy material and with sufficient capacity. That kind.
Kate from Mysterious Benedict Society approves this metaphor.
Tangentially related, but is there an effort underway to archive fediverse content? I think the danger of federation is the loss of a valuable knowledge base if an instance goes offline.
That's my biggest fear too. And even with archiving if you spend all that time growing a community and the instance just dies then you have to rebuild the community from scratch on a different server. It seems oddly risky because without secured funding who knows which instances might die and when.
I think long term there might need to be some form of revenue from the site just to ensure needs are met and incentivize devs/admins to stick with it. But maybe the donations will surprise me and things will go smooth like wikipedia.
By definition, a copy of every post, comment, community, and user profile exists on every instance that federates with another instance. Data preservation should be trivial, even without a proper archive.
I could imagine a scenario where a popular instance owner goes rogue and brings down their server, only for the whole thing to be restored from federated copies by some other group.
I donate to lemmy net and mastadon world. I think donations will work in the short term, but in the long term a more sustainable model will need to be created. Hopefully a model that does not damage the integrity of Lemmy.
I did make a donation. Now they really need money to scale the servers to adjust to the big people influx.
Common courtesies are not meant to be discussed neither enforced -- but expected. If you aren't donating (right now), you are doing it wrong.
I'm only a lowly pensioner, but i donate to Ernest on kbin.social. It's a worthy cause, and i know that it goes to help run the site, so why not.