Taru Luojola @Stoori@polyglot.city

I saw the words ”crush posting” and immediately thought what would be

posh crusting

I feel it's safer to travel aboard with someone (rather than alone as a trans woman), and generally it's nice to have someone to talk with when away from home.

But my travel patterns and interests are so haphazard and spontaneous that I feel that no one should suffer from them with me. Because they might feel like suffering for others. And I actually enjoy traveling alone.

Thus I mostly end up not traveling and just stay home dreaming of travel.

I'm toying with GarageBand. Please note that I know basically nothing about music nor can I play any instrument.

But here's my first toying, an old Finnish psalm from 17th century. Yes, there may be mistakes in this, but to my ear it sounds good enough.

So enjoy this little bit of Finnish self-loath, sadness and patheticism!

We'll continue to exist as a quiet niche instance at least for the second year, but who knows what will happen a year from now. Anyway, thanks for being here and taking part in our discussions. :)

6/6

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So, to recap, there probably won't be a polyglot.city co-op, and this instance probably won't become a thriving multilingual community, unless some unexpected happens. Also, my personal interests are now geared towards other things and I'm not able to be the active community developer that this kind of co-op project would require.

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But that's not going to happen. I can very well pay €5 per month for a 100 users instance, but I can't pay more. And to start receiving donations or subscription fees would require the very co-op that is now missing, and the co-op will stay nonexistent unless we have many more active users. I guess you see the problem here.

4/6

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This has also affected my stated aim of founding a co-op to take over the admin and moderator responsibilities: with so few active users and so little sense of community, there's no ground for a co-op to grow from. If we had, say, 1000 users, we could have enough people to run a co-op. But we will never get to a bigger user base, unless we move to a bigger hosting plan and open the registrations again.

3/6

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However, we've reached the user cap of our current hosting plan. About a third of our users are active as per the default definition of the term in Mastodon (whatever that is), but still the local timeline is a quiet place. My vision a year ago was a thriving local multilingual community, but this doesn't seem to have happened. And because of the user cap, we can't keep registrations open, so there won't be coming any new users for now and the local community will probably stay quiet.

2/6

Today polyglot.city is one year old, yay!

So, a few words about the state and future plans of our instance from your admin.

As was already a year ago, polyglot.city is currently administered, moderated and paid solely by myself. This has been a sustainable model so far, and if we keep going like this, it will stay sustainable. I've renewed the domain for another year and I'll keep paying the monthly hosting fee, and everything will stay as it is now.

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Friday night feber

#selfie #FineFemmeFriday