I’m really liking the worth RetroMags is doing, and notice they have 16K members, so I assume it’s about 4K active monthly users.
I’m wondering if to expand both their users, and the fedizerse’s users, if it would make any sense at all to use the servers they use for downloads on a new Lemmy instance, that creates a seperate community for each magazine, and auto populates a new post in the correct community every time they post a new download over on their forums.
They don’t REQUIRE membership to download, which is what this whole idea is based on. Since I assume it would be entirely too costly to have downloads on their forums AND a duplicate set of downloads on a seperate server. Seems costly given their massive scale.
Am I dreaming pipe-dreams? Or should I let them know about this idea?
Not considering the costs of hosting infrastructure for downloads, developing Fediverse integration in software is an extremely complicated task, and retrofitting it into existing software is no joke.
A more realistic starting point is probably to follow them on Mastodon, ( @[email protected] ) interacting with their posts and trying to spread them, and to try to build up a fediverse presence for them. Then eventually, if they find that they get the majority of their interactions through the fediverse, they might consider merging their comment sections.