Edit edit: pls stop voting we already decided. read the post title. I love blahaj.zone and personally wanted to stay.
EDIT-I feel the need to clarify that I don't really care either way, I have no ambitions to be an instance admin, I just want to do whatever's best/preferredf or the community-
Hello everyone, I'm making this post because I have received a very enticing offer that I think we as a community should consider.
Ruud from lemmy.world has reached out and offered to set up our own instance under the domain of 196.social, hosted on lemmy.world's hardware. This would allow the community to exist as a separate entity from any one instance, while also improving stability, as it would not be impacted by The same volume of hacks or attacks. It would also not be affected by Lemmy.worlds downtime as it would be fully separate.
The one trade-off is that we would have to fund this ourselves. Ruud says he is more than willing to cover the costs initially until we get some sort of funding set up, but after that grace period we would have to crowdsource the money. He says that the expenses of running a one community instance are very low, however. especially if we don't allow account creation, so it would not take many people to fund it per month.
Please vote in the comments whether we should remain on blahaj.zone, or migrate to our own instance.
It seems like everyone has already made up their minds, but I really like the domain 196.social it sounds very cute. It feels like we could expand to things like a chat community with weekly check-ins similar to what Beehaw does. Our own slice of the internet that will live as long as 196 users exist.
It depends who would have to deal with upgrades and such but it sounds so cool to have our own domain. I also like that it would be on EU servers, just because.
Though being a large community we can also fund blahaj zone which would help smaller blahaj communities. So just because of this we should stay. My only gripe with blahaj lemmy is the domain is so long and clunky. But thats so minor lol.
Just let me dream for a few minutes :3