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Yeah, the reason I say that is because Sunaurus had setup something like 10 sub-servers (most of them non-redundant) running the instance, at a cost of ~US$200/mo. I can’t pretend to be any expert in such stuff, but my perception is that (rather famously unlike certain other instances) it was overall beautifully able to handle massive influxes of users, DDOS attacks, spam issues, outage issues, and whatever else. It also had a health-status link (now defunct) and I think maybe other user/server tools, as well.

Lemm.ee was definitely solid, but it was not the only one.

https://discuss.tchncs.de/ is managed by the admin behind https://tchncs.de/ , as you can see, they offer quite a few services: https://status.tchncs.de/status/tchncs

Another issue apart from that is that even when the content can be migrated to another instance, nobody can say with any certainty that such instance won’t crash, either. There’s also the fact that now that EGN’s stuff is mostly migrated (with ~160 postings lost), I can’t actually edit any of it even as the community owner. So personally, it’s another big chonk of work trying to patch up any content that has aging issues… such as Imgur content needing to be re-uploaded, info updating, and/or links needing to be fixed. I.e., I’ll need to delete, rework and re-launch so many of those aging posts when I’d much rather be focused on creating new content.

In your situation, have you ever considered hosting a blog rather than content directly on Lemmy/Piefed? That might be an easier way to manage the content over time. https://text.tchncs.de/about this be used for example, there are probably other instances around (https://writefreely.fediverse.observer/list)

Another option would be WordPress, which would allow you to link your blog with a Lemmy/Piefed community, like it was done here:

• https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/31759287
• https://dbzer0.com/blog/this-blog-is-now-federated-natively-to-lemmy/

As much as I like Lemmy/Piefed/Mbin, in their current state they're not the best solution for content that is going to be edited and updated over a long period of time

Being a dedicated content instance provider would also inherently imply dedicating that instance to a certain, more controlled type of content. An authentication instance might want to cater to a geography, which will probably decide to interact with the rest of the world and to provide adequate verification and certification mechanisms. A content instance might want to cater to a geography or a subject, resulting in specialized participation, with certification and verification based on the content, not the user.

Those control mechanisms were available to lemm.ee. There's a reason most active instances mostly defederate from certain instances.

You keep seeing monolithic instances that congregate the most communities as a plus. That’s a negative in my perspective on the fediverse. It shouldn’t be competing reddit clones with the one having the most communities winning out.

I don't, I'm the one regularly pushing for more decentralization of communities (https://reddthat.com/post/20197120 , e.g. !privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com vs !privacy@lemmy.ml)

But I would rather have instances use the tools they currently have (and hopefully more will come with Piefed development catching up) rather than trying to re-engineer the whole platform when some instances don't use the existing moderation tools.

As a general comment, I suggest everyone interested in making the Fediverse grow to join those two communities

• !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com is about promoting the Threadiverse on other platforms (usually Reddit)
• !fedigrow@lemmy.zip is about growing communities on the platform

Nobody likes to shout into the void. The second one helps finding people to help you grow your communities.

!fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com

!fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com

something like turning off old.reddit.

One day...

It had an impact, but is was limited thanks to the decentralized nature of the platform.

About the most robust and resilient instance, I'm not sure, monthly reports on !home@lemmy.zip are pretty transparent and detailed. Other instances like sh.itjust.works have very high uptime as well.

The last point is a good one, hopefully with better mod tools we can deal with those situations better.

Maybe add the links in your bio?

Piefed has multicommunities and agregated comment views

https://piefed.zip/post/100161

All comments from 5 crossposts in a single view

A few options

• https://piefed.social/ - flagship instance
• https://piefed.zip/ - lemmy.zip team
• https://piefed.ca/ - lemmy.ca team
• https://feddit.online/

No, lemmy.zip just geo blocked UK IP adresses, but the content is still available from other servers, no instance defederated.

!fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Piefed offers that

!piefed_meta@piefed.social

Indeed https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/19414722

Feeds don't really completely solve fragmentation, as comments are still attached to a single community, and you don't see them in a single view.

To completely solve fragmentation, you need a consolidated view of comments as well

https://piefed.zip/post/100161

All comments from 5 crossposts in a single view

Exactly, it has feeds (so what your describe), that can be private or public

Seems like it's back to normal https://reddthat.com/post/44840488

The Piefed web UI is similar to Lemmy. As usual, people have options

Piefed has more granular notifications. Voyager is also recently supported

!piefed_meta@piefed.social

Have you tried the (New comments) sort?

Being able to search in a community is already a good improvement