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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I feel it probably makes more sense for location-specific instances to have their own communities for these things. So for example, have a Lemmy instance for London, e.g. london.lemmy.uk. Then have ~[email protected] community, which is for Freecycle posts in London.

Of course anyone from other instances can join, it just seems to make sense that something so location specific should be in a location specific Lemmy instance (of which there are a growing number).

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How can I find out if there is an instance for Sacramento?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

At this point I don't see one. Lemmy is still quite small, probably less than 10,000 active users. I guess my comment was idealistic rather that realistic for right now.

There is a list of instances here: https://join-lemmy.org/instances

Also one of the instances has created a community browser that lets you search communities across instances, but I haven't seen anything freecycle related: https://browse.feddit.de/

Except maybe https://slrpnk.net/c/zerowaste?

I think your instance lets anyone create a community, so you could create a freecycle community for all until there are enough users to support regional ones.