Mastodon handles it pretty decently where it automatically gets your followers to follow your new account, there’s no reason why communities/groups couldn’t do the same thing
Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month
cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Really nice that they’re doing a sunset period with advance warning instead of just randomly going dark. As Lemmy’s first major “shutdown” we need to accept that this sort of thing seems inevitable from time to time, maybe this can set an example and open a conversation on how to handle this sort of situation in the future. I’d hope this creates some pressure to Fediverse developers to improve portability for users (and communities!) moving between instances, maybe even some kind of immigration/emigration mode for people or communities who want to apply to transfer their account and history rather than simply sign up a new account while posting a link from their old account. Federation should be able to do better than that.
Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 3 days ago
Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 days ago
Individual users’ follows are not very useful in the threadiverse compared to backlog of content.
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 3 days ago
The historical backlog isn’t going anywhere. It will still be viewable on other instances.
For example here’s an old thread from a community on vlemmy.net, an instance that disappeared more than a year ago.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 days ago
Yes, but people can no longer engage with that content. It creates the appearance of relatively dead communities.
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
feddit.de disappeared a while back. As did the original UK one. (Both have been replaced)
smeg@feddit.uk 2 days ago
Was there an original uk one? This one is the only one I’m aware of, it had a moment of doubt a year back but we got new admins before we needed to move.
OpenStars@piefed.social 3 days ago
It reminds me of DMV.social's shutdown, and for similar reasons (admin feeling overwhelmed). I don't recall how big that one was though.
can@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Piefed currently allows community transfers!
TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 2 days ago
and they don’t support voyager
can@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Viyager doesn’t support them