Francisco Reyes

From what I see, Lemmy is growing and it may, eventually, grow if you create a local community for a city / region. My advice for anyone that would like to create a new community is to ensure you are creating content on a regular bases until there are enough other people to also contribute, with the knowledge could be a while (weeks / months???) before others discover it.

Why not create it?

When federation works it is good. The instance I signed up for was missing quite a bit of posts across many of the different communities I had signed for. It seems better now after a recent upgrade, but unless one checks manually there is no way to know for sure if one’s instance is federating properly.

The other issue I find is that because anyone can create a topic on any instance, that can cause fragmentation of less popular topics so basically none of the instances has a good representation on that given topic because the few people interested in the topic are scattered.

I try to have most of the common parts setup with ansible. Over time, keep adding more and more. This is useful specially for things you may not do, or need, often and that is not as fresh on your mind how you set it up last time.

Any configuration management system would work; I find ansible is very approachable and fast to get productive with it.

From comment on Reddit