I understand that this move is not one that is best for the fediverse, but at this time it is what is best for my community. The Mali situation does not provide me enough time to consider better alternatives. I live to fight another day. When a community migration tool comes along, I will consider migrating again. For now, this is my decision and what I think is best.
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remkit@lemmy.kya.moe 11 months ago
Yes, moving from one centralised instance to another centralised instance. Wonder what you guys will do when lemmy.world goes down.
CosmicSploogeDrizzle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
remkit@lemmy.kya.moe 11 months ago
Perhaps you should have taken the time to consider better alternatives before jumping. This looks like a hasty thought, jumping from the #2 to #1 Lemmy server, and it’s actions like these that definitely harm the Fediverse. Now the lemmy.world instance has to shoulder on even more burden. Thanks.
CosmicSploogeDrizzle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I would have, but unfortunately, the Mali situation does not afford me the luxury of time, as they could shut down the ML domain at any time, and they have already done so to another instance. Lemmy.ml being shutdown will kill my community outright. I respect that you disagree and I understand the reasons. I actually agree with you. If a community migration tool comes along, I will look into moving off of lemmy.world to a reliable and trustworthy gaming centric instance.
As for .world not being able to shoulder the burden. If they didn’t think they could handle the load, they can close signups and restrict new community generation. Since they haven’t, then they are choosing to accept these users and communities with open arms. I actually personally raised this issue with them when they surpassed lemmy.ml in total and active users. They are confident in their abilities to grow and manage. The admins were made aware of my intent to migrate and even helped me coordinate the transfer of ownership of !ps5@lemmy.world to my account for the purpose of doing so. They are very much in the loop on this.
whatsarefoogee@lemmy.world 11 months ago
As opposed to moving to a decentralized instance?
Every lemmy instance is centralized, it’s not a bloody blockchain.
remkit@lemmy.kya.moe 11 months ago
No, as opposed to moving a specialised instance, like how Android moves to lemdro.id. All of the centralisation lemmy.world and lemmy.ml is beginning to have an effect, and you guys are just at the starting line of finding out.
Decentralisation has nothing to do with blockchains. Hell, even BitTorrent was decentralised before the term blockchain even came to be.
Derproid@lemm.ee 11 months ago
So your suggestion is to centralize all gaming communities onto a single lemmy instance? That sounds like a great alternative. Besides, the real decentralization would be having a ps5 community on lemmy.ml, lemmy.world, and lemdro.id. That way if any one instance is shut down there are still two more that users can migrate to.
remkit@lemmy.kya.moe 11 months ago
No, again, my suggestion is not to centralise anything.
If anything, I would have preferred if ps5!ps5@lemmy.world had moved to lemm.ee instead of lemmy.world. As it stands, lemmy.world is getting too big for a “federated” Lemmyverse, why should we continue to support federation on Lemmy, if lemmy.world becomes the new Reddit?