I have a number of Lemmy instances meant for discussion groups around specific topics. They are not being as used as I expected/hoped. I would like to set them up in a way that they can be owned by a consortium of different admins so that they are collectively owned. My only requirement: these instances should remain closed for registrations and used only to create communities.
Why?! The whole point of federation is to let people join communities even when they don’t have an account in the same server.
There are two different, orthogonal issues here:
The idea of having topic-specific instances is an attempt to mitigate issue #2.
Not my experience. A few examples: