I have a number of Lemmy instances meant for discussion groups around specific topics. They are not being as used as I expected/hoped. I would like to set them up in a way that they can be owned by a consortium of different admins so that they are collectively owned. My only requirement: these instances should remain closed for registrations and used only to create communities.

  • UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev
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    8 hours ago

    I’d be interested in hearing the thoughts of some admins - would !football@lemmy.world be interested in moving to !football@soccer.forum, given the right organization?

    I’m not the main mod of !football@lemmy.world so it’s really not my decision to make, but moving the community to a domain with the word soccer in it is a tough pill to swallow. As silly as it may sound, there’s a lot of people that don’t like having football referred to as soccer.

    Moving away from lemmy.world and their annoying VPN restrictions would be nice though.

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      3 hours ago

      I had a feeling that would be an issue!

      On the one hand, football@soccer would be a good compromise.

      On the other, we’re right, the Americans are wrong. Simple as that. So I sympathise with the lack of willingness to compromise on the matter.

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        18 minutes ago

        Americans are wrong

        Don’t forget Australia, NZ, S Africa, and a few other places like Japan.

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      7 hours ago

      moving the community to a domain with the word soccer in it is a tough pill to swallow. As silly as it may sound, there’s a lot of people that don’t like having football referred to as soccer.

      Sounds silly indeed, but I agree (https://feddit.org/comment/2048090 )