This is a wonderful comment!! Before coming into fediverse, I got so excited learning about local wikis, which grew from a wiki for the city of Davis. I am actually so sad that these local wikis didn’t grew to be popular, but the vision of having a hyper local wiki that houses general history, news, establishment reviews, local college/university advice etc. all in a wiki format is just amazing in my opinion!! I even saw people starting up a student club that moderates the wiki, and people had hosted edit-a-thon nights :) Hosting a university fediverse instance is perfect for a student club - clubs usually get a bit of funding each term, which could be used for hosting expenses, and the mods etc can be the exec members of the club!
Thank you so much for running the Taylor Swift & popheads community here!! It was one of your other comments somewhere that really inspired me start posting and commenting around the fediverse. It does take work to cultivate a community, which I have taken for granted being just a lurker in reddit/in general.