cross-posted from: https://literature.cafe/post/462140

I’ve noticed a lot of people complain that niche communities aren’t really all that present here or are difficult to find. Having some consolidated in specific instances is very helpful for discovery as well as spreading the federation around.

I started with literature.cafe (and am sticking with literature.cafe, obviously! That’s not going anywhere!) But last night I was looking at potential domains and was curious about what an art focused lemmy instance could be potentially called. I managed to snag lemmyloves.art for very very cheap, but I came to the realization as the morning came that not only is making an instance only as useful as the people who desire to use it… I currently pay for my own out of pocket and if I’m making another instance alongside this one it needs to be able to last long term.

I have the time, energy and ability to build the instance and manage it with similar principles that literature.cafe currently has (albeit slightly different to address the needs of art) but it’s just a matter of knowing if people will actually be willing to use it and if support for it would be a possibility. I can pay for literature.cafe out of pocket right now no problem, but hosting another instance that I feel very likely may need to be scaled up later on is kind of iffy thing for me to commit to right now. As well as the likelihood of it needing a team as well, knowing if there would be anyone interested in helping moderate as well would be helpful as well

Just generally curious what peoples thoughts are. I think back to the lemmy dev ama and one of the devs saying they wanted a “ravelry” focused instance to spring up lmao

  • sbrl
    2•1 year ago

    New account, but the imaginarykanto link there doesn’t work for me? I’m confused.

    Did I pick the wrong server or something? Rather new to kbin.

    • kopper [they/them]English
      2•1 year ago

      OP is using the /c/ link format which does not work in Kbin (which you’re on)

      The correct way to link communities cross-everything is like [email protected] (!imaginarykanto@lemm.ee) yet people still think /c/ is anything but an implementation detail (as they’re accustomed to Reddit’s /r/)

      • sbrl
        1•1 year ago

        Ahhh that makes sense. Thanks for the explanation! Still learning Kbin. It’s more complicated than eg. Mastodon.

      • @[email protected]English
        1•1 year ago

        I have updated the post with that format of link @[email protected] you should be able to use them all now if ShittyKopper is correct.

        This list was made by someone else and copied, I think I understand why they did it that way though - you can’t format those links nicely, the following doesn’t work: * [Imaginary Kanto](!imaginarykanto@lemm.ee) Looking like this (tries to link to a post or something?: