Is this being worked on/looked at? I ask since the post mentioned discussion was happening with the .id admins but I haven’t seen any answers about whether that’s a priority (it seems Lemdro.id is the one that needs to federate with k.bin).

Just kinda bummed since I use kbin the vast majority of this time.

Edit: ah cool, quick turnarounds are sexy. Thanks @cole@lemdro.id!

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    Man, I’m really not feeling the community merge. Moving the 5th biggest lemmy.world community to one that’s like 12x smaller in subscription size feels like an unnecessary hit to any momentum it had. Especially because asking people who moved places like Reddit to move again does not sound like a good idea (though obviously less effort than moving to another website).

    I do hope I’m completely wrong though and hope this comm gains lots of traction. Moving to an instance dedicated to tech does sounds like a good idea (although I don’t know the benefits yet). Also, if it had to happen, better now than later.

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      1 year ago

      I like anything that pulls users away from big instances and onto smaller ones. Guys, it’s not a DECENTRALIZED system if you’re all centralizing on one massive instance.

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        I wish there was a way to keep communities “in sync”, like you have the big and small communities with the same posts and comments, everything’s the same, so people who are on Lemmy.world could go to Android@Lemmy.World and have the same content we have here without having to discover this community.

        Would help combat fragmentation, and the sync could be broken if things go south

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          To where, if the big instance that everyone centralized on goes to shit? The internet itself is decentralized. Anyone can run a website, but no matter how enshittified corporate websites become, people are “somehow” still stuck on Google, Meta, Microsoft etc. websites and services.

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      To check real community size you need to go to the “community home” instance and check there. When you do it from your instance/app, you see number of subscribers fromy your insnce only.

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      I agree. I can understand this is a tech-focused instance but that doesn’t means Lemmy World was not right for us. If someone creates an Android-focused instance then we would move again because that would be even more suitable than this one?

      However I expect the community to keep growing and next time it would be nice if mods ask the members before taking decisions that affect the whole community.

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        lemdro.id was actually created with the original intent of hosting Android, but has kind of grown a little to more general technical content in the same realm. I definitely hear your point though. Personally, my hope is this helps take load off of lemmy.world. This is my contribution to make the fediverse more viable long-term as it continues to grow

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            1 year ago

            To add on to what @ijeff said, eventually the plan is to open up community contributions. However, they are not needed since so far hosting costs are looking to be around $40/mo (for a setup which is highly available!) which is low enough I’m happy to fund it for eternity.

            I’ve seen other instances have luck with asking for low amounts of contributions through ko.fi or GitHub sponsors and we will eventually do something similar. I’m waiting until I have the infrastructure in a stable place (i.e. not changing too much) and I have open-sourced all of the setup work.