• ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝A
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    7 months ago

    Instance management is a much more important commitment than moderation, though.

    It’s important but it isn’t a huge amount of work, especially if you have a good team to spread the load.

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      7 months ago

      It also helps that I am running a managed instance hosting business, and I should be more comfortable doing this than the average hobbyist?

      • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝A
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        7 months ago

        Yes, I’d imagine there are efficiencies to doing that - we inherited a thriving medium-sized instance so, despite one of the team having spun up their own Lemmy instance, there was a lot of “learning on the job” required to get everything humming along nicely. I imagine that, with more experience it becomes easier.

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        7 months ago

        On the other hand, having a lot of instances managed by you increase the impact in case something happens