Got it
Blaze
joined 1 year ago
I see. On the other hand, I've done it a few times (you announce it beforehand, create the new community, lock the old community with a pinned post) and it's usually okay. Not ideal of course, but still not a breaking point.
The argument I've seen a few times is that "communities should be able to move all of their posts and comments elsewhere, on Mastodon it's possible", but it doesn't seem to be the case from the OP.
Thanks. I guess at the moment people manually redirect using pinned posts in communities and in their old profile bio.
Imagine the type of chaos it would cause if it came out that the LW admins were getting a corporate kickback to destabilize the Fediverse, or that they were involved in some other equally shady enterprise. It would probably be the end of the Fediverse, either through the created schisms or the lack of will to stop the corporate meddling
I agree that LW centralization isn't good, but I'm not sure such event would be the end of the Fediverse, or Lemmy.
People would just massively move to other instances. LW communities usually have a non-LW non-lemm.ml alternative (such as !movies@lemm.ee for !movies@lemmy.world ), so that should be doable. A bit painful, but manageable.
Isn't that much easier nowadays with the one click settings export-import?
What lemmy really needs is the ability to easily move accounts and communities. Mastodon has that for users already.
Mastodon still doesn't allow to move posts and comments
Mastodon currently does not support importing posts or media due to technical limitations
I usually just mentioned lemm.ee nowadays.
It's solidly managed, and the second largest instance, so All feed is going to be as populated as the LW one. Also, neutral name (sorry sh.itjust.works)
Doubly so since I’m on an instance that is struggling with the volume of content from Lemmy.world because of what is effectively a limit of how much you can get from one instance at a time.
Are you okay lately? I had a look the other day, seems almost fixed:
Aussie.zone on the other is almost a week behind: https://grafana.lem.rocks/d/bdid38k9p0t1cf/federation-health-single-instance-overview?orgId=1&var-instance=lemmy.world&var-remote_instance=aussie.zone
Isn't this a bit ironic coming from someone on a LW account? Genuinely asking 😄
But I do agree with you, and I’m looking to migrate after some concerning things have come up about the lemmy.world owner.
Lemm.ee should fit your bill
Fedia.io is managed by an admin which has a long story of managing fediverse services, you should be safe.