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What would be the best thing to do to help keep lemmy.world up? Donate? Servers? What is the best way to help?

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[–] YeetMe@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Two things I can see, needs to be on scalable infrastructure rather than a few hosts running docker-compose. Needs to have support for in-memory key/value stores for caching. Either of these would probably help out a bit. Donate to the developers or instance maintainer and either could happen.

[–] mwalimu@baraza.africa 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It will also help to evolve towards some form of immutable governance for the instances. By this I mean an instance should be more than the individual admin(s). If such an individual was to tire off, get distracted etc, the instance does not suffer the same fate. Technical federation is one thing. Federated governance is a whole different issue. I am not advocating for formal organizations (but those would help in some cases), but rather a clear provision for instance-continuity beyond the current admins.

[–] honk@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Me and a handful of friends started a formally registered non profit in germany. Not internet related but art related stuff and it was surprisingly easy, fast and even more surprising the regulations and requirements actually make sense. That is the way to go to secure that no admin ever goes nuts and takes an entire instance with them lmao.

I‘m fairly certain that similar organizations exist in most countries snd the process should be relatively similar.

[–] mwalimu@baraza.africa 1 points 1 year ago

This is the way to go. Gives some reasonable grounds to commit to an instance when you expect it will be up in a month. We are also trying that with Baraza with a trusteeship kind of design.

[–] pjhenry1216@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What exactly is the issue bringing lemmy.world down that these two things would address?

[–] nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Too many users, the Lemmy instance software is not very fast.

Here is a (few weeks old) chart of users by instance:

[–] emilygage@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Interesting! I wasn't aware that .world was so popular.

[–] Nunar@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Fantastic. Where do I do any of that?