It has been proposed a few times I guess, and while Lemmy.ml seems to be not actively hostile against “us”, I would say it is very much in line with the anarchist idea to decentralize and become self-sufficient.

However so far no one seems to have stepped up to actually run such an instance, or am I overlooking something?

I personally have thought about it (I have a quirky 3 letter domain name that I would find fitting and also run my own servers), but to be honest I am not deeply embedded in the anarchist community (more of an anacho-individualist in that sense, despite being in favor of syndicalism in theory) and probably also have some other unpopular opinions in some ways. I am also a somewhat grumpy old white male not very keen on moderating community drama.

tl;dr: I think it would be cool to have something like that, but I fear that me starting (and mostly running) it would soon not be very popular and I am also hesitant having to deal with the likely hassle of running something like that.

  • dumpsterlid@lemmy.ml
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    4 years ago

    I guess the question is do anarchists and marxists meaningfully differ on governance in terms of running a lemmy instance at this stage?

    Also, I think its good to think about the benefit of having a centralized gathering place for newcomers to lemmy in the early stages of its growth. In some ways pre-splitting communities is kind of like pre-optimizing code right? Make sure its feasible to do so in the future but don’t worry about it right now.

    I was pretty afraid mastodon.social would hit a point where it would just out compete all the other instances and the whole instance idea would become an atrophied feature on mastodob but I think the more I hang around federated communities the more it feels like there is a powerful counterbalancing desire in people to strike out and make their own camp once things reach a certain size so long as enough people are empowered with the know how to do so.