Most of the communities are on one instance i.e .ml. Should we spin up more instances and start spreading communities either by location, interests, etc? Maybe, I am wrong but do mod/s who run the communities understand the idea of “decentralized social networks” or this is just to get few brownie points to start the community and increase the traffic? Please correct me if I am wrong.
No offence, just an observation.
I think having more instances would be great, especially now that it’s possible to federate across them. A big question is how to ensure that instances are spun up in a sustainable fashion. One common problem I see with Mastodon instances is that they’re often short lived. This can cause more harm than good since people create accounts and get invested in the community, and then it disappears when the person running the server no longer has the time or the will to keep doing it.
It might be good to create some sort of an organization that would allow people to pool effort needed for operating the servers. So, if somebody needs help with administration or they want to pass it on to somebody else then it’s easy for people to connect. This could even be a community on the main instance.
That last ideal is actually quite nice! Lemmy could use that for sure :)
I run lemmy.pt and atm I have no intention of ever stopping, but you never know what the future brings and sometimes passing the management to someone else might be hard. A respectable org that help that transition could be really neat.
I second that! I run two mid-sized mastodon instances and definitely see the appeal of a fedi guild.