What I’m imagining is that someone running a project (like a game studio for example) creates an instance of PieFed or Lemmy or whatever, disables sign-ups, creates community(-ies) for their project(s), and lets people post there.

It would not only allow people to interact without having to create new accounts, but could also help spread awareness of their project.

So I wonder (a) is this possible (b) are the any downsides I’m not aware of.

  • Kierunkowy74@piefed.socialEnglish
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    17 days ago

    Any entity, which would try to make an official instance, should it federate only with e.g. .world, will be bullied out of the Threadiverse.

    A relatively open federation, with its choice of providers, is the network’s main defence against enshittification. Reddit was open source too, but as a silo it was able to lock everything down and decay.