Comment on Instance freezing as an alternative to full shut down
lily33@lemm.ee 10 months agoThe issue is that currently we don’t have the technical features needed for such an attitude: namely, transfering the communities. Decentralised IDs would also help.
Not just transferring communities, but also posting history (much of what makes a user’s identity).
I’m starting to think that the best way to use Lemmy for posterity is actually the same way as using Reddit for posterity (assuming you’d want to do that): rather than submit your comments directly there, post them in your own blog or smth and just make your lemmy/reddit comments links to your home-comments.
Do people really make comments with that level of gravity though?
Yeah, again… unpopular opinion but just embrace the transience. How necessary is “transferring” a community. There’s very few communities with content that provides some kind of reference.
Exactly.
If you’re making posts or comments that you want preserved, you should be backing them up anyway.
It would be nice if the export function copied saved items as well as subs and blocks though.
It does copy saved items.
It does? I have no clue how I missed that. Thank you very much
transfering the communities.
I’d say it doesn’t count unless it also moves all followers, which this doesn’t.
It would if all the users were on Piefed instances. I instantly got 100 subscribers on that community as they were Piefed users.
Penguincoder@beehaw.org 10 months ago
ActivityPub does not have that feature or ability. Other federation type software does. But being as Lemmy is built with ActivityPub for federation, it can’t offer instance independent identities.
Irelephant@lemm.ee 10 months ago
codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/…/fep-ef61.md
It does, as an FEP.