Do any of you know of an instance that would be good for creating more hyper specific Literature/books communities? Not the big two lemmy.ml or lemmy.world or any that would get defederated here. Basically not any of the instances that are getting crushed ATM or are too unmoderated.
By specific, I mean fan communities for a specific author, series, genre etc.
You would be very welcome on Wayfarers’ Haven. It’s a small instance oriented towards journies, travel, stories, handwork, etc. Community creation is open.
Editing to follow up on your other comment: we don’t have a donation pipeline - at the scale I’m expecting, this will be something I can cover for now. I’m open to working with the community for funding if and when that comes. The server is on Hetzner so does have the capacity to scale. I’d probably cap membership around 500 active users to keep things manageable - I’m more interested in the community building than server management. New users need to apply by answering a light question or two. In regards to federation: the instance needs to stay safe and manageable. If there’s an overwhelm from nsfw instances, those would probably be de federated - otherwise, I’d rather keep federation open as much as possible. I’m sharing this in the spirit of transparency so that you have the right info to move forward.
At the end of the day - if you have such specific ideas of what you’d like, why not run your own instance?
I will look at it. Does indeed sound like my kind of place. Would be interesting to see some kind of lemmy ‘moderator server’ or some way to elevate users homed on other instances to moderator on local.
RE my own instance: I question my own longevity and financial stability is why I do not make my own. Also, tho I am a Network Engineer, I in no way trust my Security chops, and would be terrified with anything involving passwords and possibly an email address. I do have a local lemmy spun up just for the learns.