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I created an instance for a specific community

I created !dull_mens_club@lemmy.world a few months ago and then started seeing contraversies around moderation policies and federation that just don't apply to the type of content on dull mens club so I decided to make an instance solely to host that community.

!dullsters@dullsters.net

I'm not sure if this has happened yet, but I like the idea of having a neutral instance that users can still visit regardless of what happens. There's no user signups, only admin/moderator accounts. Users have to use an account from a federated instance.

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I have no strong feelings one way or the other.

I like it because the name is more inclusive. I am incredibly dull and not a man.
- Well please come share your dull experiences at both if you like. The original community gets about a dozen posts per week, sundays are generally the most "busy" people like picture posts a lot.

I’m not sure if this has happened yet
I have more than 15 topic-specific instances, and we are in absolute agreement about why this is the best arrangement for group federation.
Also, thank you very much for leading by example. Lets hope the bigger instances also see the value in the initiative.

Great idea !

can i get a tldr on the content and defederation part?
- if an instance has no users and only communities, then it's less likely to be defederated by anyone, and easier to manage
  I do the same thing (also because I don't want to pay for tons of storage space lol) https://lemmy.mods4ever.com/communities
  
  Can confirm, I host a very small instance with a few niche communities. Many subscribers, I don't know of any defeds against me though. Plus it's how I expect the fediverse to really grow naturally. Join a general one but then smaller instances of more niche topics. Kudos OP!
- The point is more federation, not less. Decentralizing prevents any big rifts in the fediverse from fracturing the community.
- .world has come under a lot of fire for being centrist and having anti-violence policies. 196 actually moved from blahaj to world, and most of the users said they wouldn't be going with it, because they don't agree with the aforementioned policies.

You should run the common instance federation tool for your main communities.
- Could you elaborate on this?
  
  Might be talking about https://lemmy-federate.com/?
  You can add the community, and the other instances that have signed up will have their follower account subscribe to your new community. Communities are only federated to instances that have at least one subscriber to the community, so it won't show in All on instances with no subscribers to your community. That website is a way to help get around that.

considering this and @Die4Ever@programming.dev's comment, could it incentivize certain types of prospective Admins to create community only instances, increasing attraction of more users to lemmy overall but disproportionally burden the user management workload on the traditional user+community instances?
- Either way the content will go onto their server because of federation. It eliminates some workload from those admins if the small instance is actively modderating.

This is great. Dull men's club is a great community and it doesn't deserve to be lumped in with the rest of .world.

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