The topic came up in this discussion of what feature would you like lemmy to have. I talked with nutomic (one of the developers) a bit about this and he suggested opening a separate topic so we could discuss if and how to implement it best.
The topic came up in this discussion of what feature would you like lemmy to have. I talked with nutomic (one of the developers) a bit about this and he suggested opening a separate topic so we could discuss if and how to implement it best.
Setting up the legal structure for something like that takes a lot of effort. Sure it is doable and I think it would be nice to have a Lemmy instance run like that, but I don’t really see that as a necessity right now or in general for this developer run entry instance on lemmy.ml
There are actually organisations for this, like the software in the public interest which actually hosts the “Debian democracy” and the software freedom conservatory.
There is also feneas which is sort of a democracy so maybe it can provide a instance managed this way.
Sure, would be great if they would host a Lemmy instance. But at least feneas recently said they had some financial issues and are winding down operations? Not sure if I remember correctly.
Last i heard they started a fundraiser (viewable on there site), I hope they pull through, I do think that if someone wants to have a go at them it will probably have to help by becoming an admin. They said they could not even announce they have problems because they didn’t have the man power to manage social media.