Spreading the federation out is a good thing, both the communities on literature.cafe are accessible from lemmy.world as on the other end of things lemmy.world is accessible from literature.cafe
Feel free to check it out if you want to.
If you’d rather be on a remote instance than sign up feel free to check out the community directory @ [email protected]
Below is a previous post with much more details on the instance operations, etc etc.
cross post from https://literature.cafe/post/349464
more instance info
I don’t think this was posted here already, but this instance has been up and running for a bit. Apologies if this isn’t the best place for it, feel free to remove if need be! The instance has been running for a few weeks now and has a few users already, but if there’s people invested in that specific niche interest that wants to spread the load across instances it exists. It has some extra lemmy front end UIs available, and I am building up the local communities as I have time to. Some policy stuff as to how it operates, for sake of transparency.
Although I am currently the “only admin” I do have a “break glass” admin account and will be giving it to a trusted point person just in case (life happens sometimes…) as well as scaling up the team as need be.
If the instance ever has to go down, at the very least a 30 day notice will be given in advance as well as an outlined explanation as to why and a good faith effort will be made to keep it up as well.
The de-federation policy might be slightly controversial, and I completely understand. It is currently temporarily defederated from lemmys pornographic instances, mainly because of just how much it spams c/all. I will refederate in time when there more granular federation options, but I just can’t reasonably moderate that right now. I also do defederate from the “worst of the worst” fediverse instances (ie, known CP hosts, far right, nazis, etc) as a precaution despite how janky cross federation is for lemmy right now, hence why the instance blocklist is long.
The instance currently uses object storage, and I post monthly financial statements as to what the cost of the resources for it are.
I also use a community seeder bot that runs every 12 hours to diversify content in all. The local communities focus are mainly book related, but it federates with most other instances.
I also am currently taking manual secure database backups at least weekly and storing them remotely, but I will be automating that process as soon as I can. I value security greatly.
The link is https://literature.cafe
This looks great, thanks! Is there an alternative that you know for r/printSF? I really enjoyed that community.
There is c/sciencefiction over on lemmy.world but I think having a scifi book focused community could be a made on my instance if there’s interest
You are more than welcome to discuss anything related to sci-fi here. Books covers all the books, and it’s not like there are enough daily posts here that will drown out any sci-fi topics 😀 Not to mention this community has most users, so should get more engagement.
That being said, nothing wrong with looking for a dedicated sci-fi community, if that is what you want. You can always look up communities on lemmyverse.net, here’s a quick search for science fiction, shows a [email protected], not sure how active it is though. Search: https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=science+fiction