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I think you’re missing a major con of the current dedicated instance, which is ownership, or lack thereof. During the Lather Games the bot stopped posting the daily threads and that wasn’t rectified for over a month. I understand this is volunteer work and I don’t fault anyone for preferring to spend time over on Reddit during the Lather Games, but if this instance is always going to play second fiddle then it will never reach its full potential. Around the time when LG started, the Lemmy version wasn’t updated very quickly when a new version came out that broke compatibility with some third party apps which resulted in me giving up and going to another instance.
Until someone is willing to dedicate the time to fully support this instance, I don’t really think there is a point to discussing the various pros and cons that you mentioned because to me there is a baseline level of functionality that’s not consistently being met. I kind of feel the ship has sailed and people are happy to continue using Reddit and I’ve moved on to Discord for my wetshaving needs, but I still come back here from time to time to see if anything has changed.
Yes indeed, and there was a major shift in the ownership yesterday. The hosting is now behind a different account, which multiple people will have access to (as soon as DJ gets home from vacation 😎 ). Same goes for our bot account, @wetshavingadmin. The new ownership model gives more people access to the upgrade function.
Yes, that was frustrating. A lot was learned a lot about how updates work with the hosting company and it will happen a lot faster now. That update is what broke the bot, though, and the bots took time to get updated by the bot writers. The latest update (to v0.18.3) only took a day or so for us to pull the trigger on, so we could make sure it wasn’t a bad update.
With the way everything is set up right now (as of yesterday), if another Lather Games were to start tomorrow, we would not have the same problems.
I have access to everything (hosting, admin, accounts, etc) as of yesterday, and I’ve been busy making changes and improvements. The bot should be all set up and good to go. We also have djundjila and I’m sure the moderation team will grow.
Reddit and Discord are pretty cool! I’m pretty excited for the future of Lemmy, but it’s going to be a slow churn. Nothing wrong with that.
Sounds like things are heading in the right direction. Thanks to everyone involved!
I also don’t blame anyone (and it’s not like I’m willing to step up to the plate) but I think that’s a great point. Things have been inconsistent around here. I’d like to take this opportunity to thank @PorkButtsNTaters666@sub.wetshaving.social for posting all the daily threads manually this past month, in order to keep things going.
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Yes, @PorkButtsNTaters666@sub.wetshaving.social ++;
Yes indeed. Thanks @porkbuttsntaters666@sub.wetshaving.social
@walden@sub.wetshaving.social, @merikus@sub.wetshaving.social, and I have the plan to work out a gouvernance model later this summer that does not rely on a single person carrying the admin and financial costs to address this issue long term. Currently, this instance is owned by merikus while I own the domains for both this and the mastodon instance and Walden took over most of the admin work. This is obviously not ideal for sustainability
Thanks for your efforts!