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.
On a general note, since 196 over on reddit is reopening, I feel what this community needs is stability. The server is running really well (for me), it's not blocking tor or vpn traffic, it's not behind cloudflare and the admins are not bigots. The stuff you as sublemmy(?) owner should care about is keeping post quality high, and taking care about hostile users. This community is nice, and I'd hope I can come here for some nice memes for a long time. That's just my ~rambling~ 2 cents.
Also: Moss if you're reading this, how about making a chat with the mod team (maybe even public for transparency) where you discuss stuff like this first? Idk if Ada and Kaity are hosting a matrix server too, but feels like a fitting platform. Maybe add a public, an offtopic room and a secret mod room too and combine that into a matrix space. It would avoid making noise here if it is not necessary.
We're not running a matrix server at the moment, but it might be something we can consider.