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I do. I care very much about identity and authenticity in the Fediverse. A server that can take posts done in one group and publish as their own is as unreliable as a server who puts fake posts impersonating a popular user.

Then we're at an impasse. But communities becoming completely modular and movable solves the problems you speak of. That's the answer.

again, why you are talking about Lemmy only? Mastodon instances from all sizes go down every other week.

Because I don't really care or know that much about Mastodon.

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rglullis@communick.news ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

That’s the answer.

That’s a bad, short-sighted, wrong answer. We can have decentralized identifiers. We have more than a couple FEPs that deal with portable objects correctly, and in the last FediForum there was a lot proposed strategies to allow migrations from both dead and live servers. None of them requires a server to unilaterally steal the content from another actor and pass it as their own.

People were criticizing me like hell because of the mirror bots on alien.top, but at least the bots were stealing from Reddit and they were meant to get people to migrate. This is implementation from PieFed may have good intentions, but the will lead to bad outcomes.

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- Skavau@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I don't think an admin of a server would think that if a community sets up there and operates there that they "own" it, to be honest.
  
  Also, currently, it would only duplicate the content and change how it appears from a Piefed instance.
  
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  - rglullis@communick.news ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    If you are the admin and developer of the server, you can do pretty much anything with it.
    
    For example, now that I am working on an AP server, I can take all your posts on !television@piefed.social and mirror them on !television@metacritics.zone. I could also avoid sending notifications to you, so you’d be aware of this only if you visited the site directly. How would you feel about that?
    
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    Skavau@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Well currently an admin could easily intervene and stop a migration by removing the community mods, to be fair.
    
    For example, now that I am working on an AP server, I can take all your posts on !television@piefed.social and mirror them on !television@metacritics.zone. I could also avoid sending notifications to you, so you'd be aware of this only if you visited the site directly. How would you feel about that?
    
    I mean you could just copy my posts anyway manually, if you were so inclined. There wouldn't be much I could do about it no matter how you did it.
    
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