I mean there may be legal questions about transferring ownership.
As for price, the question then arises - who is offering to pay for it?
Maybe if you reach out to the admin, they’d be happy to transfer it to you. I don’t know how these things work or the admin’s opinions. But the admin saying “It’s been good guys, but it’s too expensive and not what I hoped for, so I’ll keep it up for this last lease period and then let it go” is hardly a declaration of “Go fuck yourselves, I’m just burning everything down”
I’m not disputing that it’s desirable to acquire the server and perpetuate it over starting a new one, my point is only that the admin no longer being able to hold up the burden is hardly an act of spite.
And “fuck yourselves” is explicitly how several websites I care about have disappeared.
Okay, but as I said, that’s hardly the tone or implication here.
Oh sure, that’s why the announcement is about looking for someone to take over. Can you imagine if the admin simply announced a definitive end because they stopped giving a shit?
Oh sure, that’s why the announcement is about looking for someone to take over.
Most people would not presume that there’s someone waiting in the wings willing to take up a thankless job and pay a regular fee for the privilege over a small hobby project.
No one running this software thinks they’re the last person who’ll ever bother. They got into it figuring it was a sensible protocol and they only bail once they cannot be arsed to moderate all the people who show up.
Surely the fediverse is better-off letting some existing userbase soldier on, under whoever constitutes new management, than destroying any existing instance and expecting a fresh spate of randos to show up.
The thing about transferring ownership is that price stops being your problem.
I mean there may be legal questions about transferring ownership.
As for price, the question then arises - who is offering to pay for it?
Maybe if you reach out to the admin, they’d be happy to transfer it to you. I don’t know how these things work or the admin’s opinions. But the admin saying “It’s been good guys, but it’s too expensive and not what I hoped for, so I’ll keep it up for this last lease period and then let it go” is hardly a declaration of “Go fuck yourselves, I’m just burning everything down”
There’s gonna be more Lemmy servers.
A new one will be worse-off than taking over an existing one, as a rule.
For all the same reasons that having a new NSFW-heavy server doesn’t make up for LemmyNSFW disappearing and taking years of content with it.
And “fuck yourselves” is explicitly how several websites I care about have disappeared.
I’m not disputing that it’s desirable to acquire the server and perpetuate it over starting a new one, my point is only that the admin no longer being able to hold up the burden is hardly an act of spite.
Okay, but as I said, that’s hardly the tone or implication here.
Oh sure, that’s why the announcement is about looking for someone to take over. Can you imagine if the admin simply announced a definitive end because they stopped giving a shit?
Most people would not presume that there’s someone waiting in the wings willing to take up a thankless job and pay a regular fee for the privilege over a small hobby project.
There’s gonna be more Lemmy servers.
No one running this software thinks they’re the last person who’ll ever bother. They got into it figuring it was a sensible protocol and they only bail once they cannot be arsed to moderate all the people who show up.
Surely the fediverse is better-off letting some existing userbase soldier on, under whoever constitutes new management, than destroying any existing instance and expecting a fresh spate of randos to show up.