Hi all,
It’s been over a year and the folks hosting the XMPP Lemmy experiment at community.xmpp.net have asked us to start transitioning it to our own hosting.
I’m writing to see what the community would like to do, or if anyone wants to take over hosting? The instance was never very widely used, so I think we can probably shut it down safely as well without too much loss.
What do you think?
Is there any harm in keeping it?
Lemmy as a platform seems to be growing lately. Assuming you can find a host, and enough people to moderate it, then I vote to keep it. Invite other XMPP organizations to use it and see how it goes.
Unless the cost, financially, or in person time to run it is simply too high to be worth it.
There was a ~1 year free offer by the Lemmy devs to host instances basically to see which ones would stick and attract users. This offer is running out now and server resources are AFAIK also better spend on lemmy.ml
So someone would need to take on the effort to migrate this instance and continue to run it.
It’s not a huge deal technically, but I agree with Sam here that the uptake by the existing XMPP (developer) community has been very low and for out-reach purposes it is better to join other instances.
I think you’re right. It’s better to let it go at this point. It can always be brought back if people find a need for it. But just the shortage of comments here shows few people were really interested.
That’s what this post is about; if someone wants to keep it, we can, but it does cost a lot to run services like this (financially, in moderation hours, in operations, in security, etc.) and a lot of people would have to take that cost on. Given that there hasn’t been much engagement at all on this server, I suspect we don’t have anyone who wants to keep it running.