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[-] Blaze@feddit.org 3 points 3 days ago

For people curious, we had a long discussion last week: https://feddit.org/post/2471872/1817865

In summary

  • I'm still not convinced on rglullis' business model, relying on 30$ yearly subscription to keep running the instances (I'm afraid that after a while, he'll get tired of trying and then will have to shut down all the instances due to costs)
  • I'm not a moderator of !football@lemmy.world , so it's not even my community
[-] AchtungDrempels@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

I'm still not convinced on rglullis' business model

They need $300000 - $450000 a year to live in minimal comfort? Sounds real modest :)

[-] Blaze@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago
[-] rglullis@communick.news 1 points 3 days ago
  • Running the topic based instances are not the main costs. Even if I went to shut down Communick (I won't, because believe it or not it's getting close to break even) the last thing I would let go are the domains, which can/could be easily transferred to some organization.

  • I can make you moderator of the communities, so it would be one more reason to move there?

[-] Blaze@feddit.org 3 points 3 days ago

I can make you moderator of the communities, so it would be one more reason to move there?

I already mod too many communities, there was a call last week that I declined.

At the moment the priority is to grow the community enough that's not only me posting.

Once we'll get there, we can discuss where to bring the community.

[-] rglullis@communick.news 1 points 3 days ago

At the moment the priority is to grow the community enough thatโ€™s not only me posting.

I'd be posting as well, and if you see the NFL communities, they are also getting some momentum from Mastodon users.

[-] Blaze@feddit.org 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Also, as @sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al brought up some time ago, it's not soccer, it's football

But don't get another domain just for us

[-] rglullis@communick.news 1 points 3 days ago

Buddy, you are running out of excuses... ;)

[-] Blaze@feddit.org 2 points 3 days ago

Just ask any European football fan how they call the game

[-] rglullis@communick.news 1 points 3 days ago

I am not arguing that. I am just saying that this is a very lame reason to avoid using it.

If I had found any "football" or "footy" domain that costs less than an used car, I would have used it. But soccer was cheaper, and football@soccer is redundant and kind of senseless.

[-] Blaze@feddit.org 3 points 3 days ago

To be fair, it kind of irritates me now to have to go to /r/soccer on Reddit

That might be one way to get people there to give Lemmy a try "it's finally the proper name of the game"

[-] rglullis@communick.news 1 points 3 days ago

Nonsense. There is also /r/football, which is quite large and to me has more interesting discussion than /r/soccer and less obnoxious mods, but /r/soccer still maintains its dominance.

It's not the name that matters. It's the content and the match threads.

[-] Blaze@feddit.org 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Wait, I thought that /r/football was about ๐Ÿˆ and that's why they had to go to soccer ๐Ÿค”

Really curious how this happened

It happened a while back. r/football actually sponsors a football team now, via some reddit program they won.

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