• @[email protected]
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    22 months ago

    That has been exactly my reasoning when I created the topic specific instances, and I have been trying to convince @[email protected] to get out of LW and into [email protected]

    Regarding a “general” sports instance, I have setup https://athletic.center/ some long ago, but never got to create communities for it. I was thinking of using it for less sports that are less “professional” and more suitable for hobby practitioners (e.g, sailing, skiing, diving, swimming, CrossFit, etc) the main reason, to be totally honest, is that sport.* are quite expensive.

    • Blaze (he/him)OP
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      32 months ago

      For people curious, we had a long discussion last week: https://feddit.org/post/2471872/1817865

      In summary

      • I’m still not convinced on rglullis’ business model, relying on 30$ yearly subscription to keep running the instances (I’m afraid that after a while, he’ll get tired of trying and then will have to shut down all the instances due to costs)
      • I’m not a moderator of [email protected] , so it’s not even my community
      • @AchtungDrempels
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        12 months ago

        I’m still not convinced on rglullis’ business model

        They need $300000 - $450000 a year to live in minimal comfort? Sounds real modest :)

      • @[email protected]
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        12 months ago
        • Running the topic based instances are not the main costs. Even if I went to shut down Communick (I won’t, because believe it or not it’s getting close to break even) the last thing I would let go are the domains, which can/could be easily transferred to some organization.

        • I can make you moderator of the communities, so it would be one more reason to move there?

        • Blaze (he/him)OP
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          22 months ago

          I can make you moderator of the communities, so it would be one more reason to move there?

          I already mod too many communities, there was a call last week that I declined.

          At the moment the priority is to grow the community enough that’s not only me posting.

          Once we’ll get there, we can discuss where to bring the community.

          • @[email protected]
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            12 months ago

            At the moment the priority is to grow the community enough that’s not only me posting.

            I’d be posting as well, and if you see the NFL communities, they are also getting some momentum from Mastodon users.

                  • @[email protected]
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                    12 months ago

                    I am not arguing that. I am just saying that this is a very lame reason to avoid using it.

                    If I had found any “football” or “footy” domain that costs less than an used car, I would have used it. But soccer was cheaper, and football@soccer is redundant and kind of senseless.