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^🧵 My Musings About #devRant Alternative, 2

One can host a server. In fact, some devRant member can make a special instance with its own rules and cool backend things. People can sign up there, on the subject of finding a pack of fun folks and being able to communicate something back. Conveniently enough, the instance itself would accumulate a lot of content relevant to it, which include dev rants and memes. Cultural overlap with other communities is as big as federation, that server has means of regulating.

So, this will work out as a devRant alternative? I'm not so sure, since power is in hands of some individual that will have to also sustain the thing, cover the costs. Yeah, it's not like we can trust devRant to be alive forever by #HexicalLabs paying bills either (not with subscriptions broken, anyway), but all administrative burden is not going away.

Do YOU want to be on such server or do you prefer to trust another? Do others? How much moderation is really needed?

^🧵 My Musings About #devRant Alternative, 2

One can host a server. In fact, some devRant member can make a special instance with its own rules and cool backend things. People can sign up there, on the subject of finding a pack of fun folks and being able to communicate something back. Conveniently enough, the instance itself would accumulate a lot of content relevant to it, which include dev rants and memes. Cultural overlap with other communities is as big as federation, that server has means of regulating.

So, this will work out as a devRant alternative? I'm not so sure, since power is in hands of some individual that will have to also sustain the thing, cover the costs. Yeah, it's not like we can trust devRant to be alive forever by #HexicalLabs paying bills either (not with subscriptions broken, anyway), but all administrative burden is not going away.

Do YOU want to be on such server or do you prefer to trust another? Do others? How much moderation is really needed?