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Should I move this community?

I think I’m going to migrate this community to Lemmy.world or Lemmy.zip. I love PieFed, but I’d rather wait until things are a little more stable before I consider PieFed.social.

I think world and zip are both fantastic options. Lemm.ee leaves me a little worried that any instance can shut down at any point. I’d prefer to pick whatever instance is least likely to shut down. I do think Lemmy.ml is pretty safe from shutdown, since it’s run by Lemmy maintainers, but I’m worried I’m reducing my audience since many people block ml.

Any thoughts?

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  • I recently started using Blorp because I saw one post from this community on my timeline. If you decide to migrate to .world, that would at least mean me and people from the instance I'm on wouldn't see it anymore.

    Outside of a vocal minority, I don't think .ml is heavily blocked by people. Of course, I don't have data to back up my claim, but if that's a real issue I think it should be weighted in properly.

  • Not that many people seem to block Lemmy.ml, primarily because it's the dev instance.

  • If you do migrate the community I'd go with lemmy.zip. It federates with pretty much anything that isn't illegal (lemmy.zip de federation vs lemmy.ml and lemmy.world), I don't think anyone blocks it (there are some people who block lemmy.world), it appears financially stable according to their reports, it has been around for sometime (not the oldest, but not new), it hosts a blorp instance and hasn't had (to my knowledge) any controversial administrative decisions.

    That being said, I personally don't care if the community is on .ml, I'd probably just wait till piefed is more established and then reconsider (especially since it has a move community function).

    On an unrelated note I think there is a typo in the GitHub readme, the last word is “ap” not “app”

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    Where you stay, I’ll stay 🎶

  • Yes.

    Thanks to Blorp’s impressive search function, I could see that there is a community but it quickly disappeared. I had to unblock the instance in order to join the community. My time and experience online has been delightful IMO due to my ever-growing block list. I only know about 80+ people IRL who have that instance blocked and that’s not a lot.

    IMO, many Blorp users will follow the community regardless. This seems to be a strong community that would be willing to support other Blorp users and that’s what really matters.

    PieFed sounds lovely, I might end up there.

  • Lemmy.zip would be a great choice !

  • Aren't you already hosting a Lemmy instance to test on? Would be coolest to have this community on !blorp@blorp.blorp or whatever domain

    • I am, but idk if I wanna open that up to federation. Hosting a public instance would likely take up more of my time. I wanna just focus on building Blorp.

  • Of the two I would rather .zip, but they geo block the UK. No idea how many uk users you have, and if that would affect you.

    The only reason I have not blocked .ml is this community and Mlem are on here.

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