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[Discussion thread] How are you all guys doing on your niche communities? (reddthat.com)

submitted 5 months ago by Blaze@reddthat.com to c/fedigrow@lemm.ee

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[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Instance management is a much more important commitment than moderation, though.

It's important but it isn't a huge amount of work, especially if you have a good team to spread the load.

[–] rglullis@communick.news 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It also helps that I am running a managed instance hosting business, and I should be more comfortable doing this than the average hobbyist?

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 3 points 5 months ago

Yes, I'd imagine there are efficiencies to doing that - we inherited a thriving medium-sized instance so, despite one of the team having spun up their own Lemmy instance, there was a lot of "learning on the job" required to get everything humming along nicely. I imagine that, with more experience it becomes easier.

[–] Blaze@reddthat.com 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

On the other hand, having a lot of instances managed by you increase the impact in case something happens

[–] rglullis@communick.news 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Then can we do it with one, maybe?

[–] Blaze@reddthat.com 2 points 5 months ago

I guess we could. For soccer.forum, as I said, it's too close to the Euro for a migration, we can maybe revisit later?

But actually I just remembered there was https://fanaticus.social/