Dear Fediversalists,

I am new here. I moderate a 50 000 members Finnish language Facebook group on no-fly travelling since 2015. I want to reduce our dependence on billionaire owned media, so we are trying to start an expansion here on the free side. I learned about Feddit.org and founded the community https://feddit.org/c/maatapitkinmatkustus.

Do you think this was the best move to make? Maybe we should move to another instance before our community grows too big here?

There are some issues I am unsure about. First, I have realised after having created the Finnish language community, that feddit.org is listed as a local instance of German speaking countries and so I could not choose Finnish as the community language, I had to “officially” choose English and German instead, though we are discussing in Finnish in the community.

Second, I do not know how big our community could grow on this server. Maybe the server will decide some day that there is no room for us anymore?

Third, I am concerned about how Feddit.org is going. I just installed Voyager, but I cannot connect to Feddit.org. I could connect to any other instance with it. What if the server has to close – would our community disappear with all the data?

On the other hand, I am happy using Lemmy. The user interface is easy and intuitive (maybe because I happen to belong to the net forums and blogs reader generation). So what would you recommend to a Finnish language group with a potential to grow to (tens of) thousands?

  • Santeri@feddit.orgOPEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Thank you so much for all your advice! I have already contacted Sopuli. I’ll make an account there as my first step.

  • turtle [he/him]@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 days ago

    This group sounds great. Unfortunately, I don’t read Finnish. Is there an equivalent group in English anywhere on Lemmy?

  • MBM@lemmings.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Finnish group for no-fly travelling

    Out of curiosity, does it always start with a boat trip?

    • Santeri@feddit.orgOPEnglish
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      3 days ago

      No, not always – those living in the very north can take a train through Sweden. And it is always possible to travel domestically – Finland is a large country! But, of course, most journeys include seaways.

  • cron@feddit.orgEnglish
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    4 days ago

    It is probably wise to have the server admins speak the language of your community.

    (And feddit.org works fine for me, it’s one of the instances with the highest uptime).

  • Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Try getting in touch with the admin of https://sopuli.xyz/. He is supposed to be from Finland.

    I’ve seen that instance recommended for European users.

    Good luck with your move! We need to get rid of American oligarch influence. They are corrupt, dishonest and lack humanity.

        • Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          4 days ago

          This is largely just an interesting piece of trivia, but also somewhat notable because servers generally don’t federate content from before they were founded. So the older servers will have local copies of posts and comments from the early days of Lemmy.

          This seems like a somewhat sane default, but it would be good if instances had the options to get all of the older historical posts as well. I don’t think it would make a big difference for say LW.

    • Coelacanth@feddit.nuEnglish
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      4 days ago

      This would have been my suggestion as well. Cool instance, surely would be perfect for this.