Comment on Lemmy.one will be shutting down

• Saleh@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You can transfer all your subscriptions and blocks. What you cannot transfer is your imaginary internet points that aren’t summed up by default in lemmy anyways.

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  • EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Would your post/comment history be lost as well? Will posts/comments show up as [by deleted user] or w/e?

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    • Saleh@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      AFAIK they would remain tied to your old account. The instances copy everything off each other. So if reddthat.com would go down, your comment would still show as EndlessNightmare@reddthath.com If you were to make a new account on a different instance it would not have your posts and comments “attached” to it.

      This could be an issue if you rely on reputation for something that is tied to your account. In that sense having some mechanism to proof the old account to be owned by you would be good.

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    • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      If instance A stops existing, instance B doesn’t have any specific knowledge of that versus it no longer federating. Existing posts and comments will stay. My instance is no longer federated with some, but I still see the communities from them.

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  • utopiah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    you cannot transfer is your imaginary internet points

    Ironically enough, even though “imaginary” this aspect might be key to moderation. Assuming (and that’s a flawed assumption) that people would upvote/downvote based not on their opinion but rather on how healthy/unhealthy to the discussion a comment is, then those “points” would be useful to see above/below a threshold one would want to interact, e.g. show content or not (or even now show even as to unfold).

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    • drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Nah the points are laughably easy to game even in centralized reddit since this moderation aspect never made any sense. As if bad actors can’t upvote themselves, buy upvotes or just repost any random garbage to /r/funny.

      Its a terrible system that turned Reddit into a content desert. Once you decline some new person because “they dint have enough karma” they’re never trying to contribute again and you end up with power users who have a moat around content production.

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• fireweed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Switching accounts over is a big issue for sure, but even bigger is when entire communities are lost. Those are much harder to switch over, both due to scale and moderation concerns.

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