I’m nearly of a mind to start a couple of Lemmy instances and front them with a load balancer–I have the resources and technical ability to build a Lemmy instance for scale–but I have zero interest in moderating the thing. I don’t want to deal with the headache of everything that goes along with that, and don’t want any responsibility for the users or content.

Would anyone be interested in a ‘Lemmy Infra as-a-Service,’ where I keep things running but hand off the management keys to you?

  • PriorProject@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s very common to have admin teams where different admins have different areas of focus, and in particular to have folks that specialize in community management and different folks that specialize in infra management. I do think it’s common for people to have to pitch in outside their area of expertise in tough times, but generally this structure works and is widely used.

    The trick is finder such a partner. In addition to this post, a couple other ways of finding a partner admin might be:

    • Ask good mods in the communities you participate in if they’d like to run an instance together where you each contribute your strengths (their community management and your technical acumen).
    • Scan Lemmy support communities for new instance admins who are struggling with a technical question. Help them out with their question, and ask if they are open to adding a systems specialist to their admin team to help their instance weather user growth.