Comment on What are your complaints about Lemmy?

j4k3@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• PumpkinDrama@reddthat.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  • Moving user profile to a new instance #1985: Provide the ability for users to migrate their account and all associated data (posts, comments, moderation actions, saved posts, etc.) from one Lemmy instance to another. This would allow users to move freely between instances without losing their online identity, history, and credibility built up over time on a previous instance.

  It’s crazy when I see this super popular issues closed by the main devs. It makes me feel like they don’t care at all about user feedback.

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  • lemmyingly@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There was a submission made about how few people donate to the Devs. I asked about transparency and some links were given that show some things. I commented that it’s not as transparent as it seems at first glance and they responded that it’s fully transparent. I asked them to clarify but they decided to ignore me. I see why the Devs get criticism.

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  • flamingos@ukfli.uk ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Provide the ability for users to migrate their account and all associated data (posts, comments, moderation actions, saved posts, etc.) from one Lemmy instance to another.

    To implement this feature you’d either have to:

    • Edit the DB entries of every instance to match the new profile;
    • Create copies of the old content on the new instance and federate that out, thus duplicating all the data. You could have it delete the old content, but you’d still need to recreate all the posts and comments.

    Either of these would be very susceptible to abuse. Giving bad actors a button to force instances to run hundreds, potentially thousands, of operations probably isn’t the best of ideas.

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    • PumpkinDrama@reddthat.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      All I know about it is that Mastodon offers this feature and is one that users have requested in a few very popular issues.

      • Moving user profile to a new instance #1985
      • Allow instance migration for communities and users

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      • flamingos@ukfli.uk ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Mastodon doesn’t move posts.

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• j4k3@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The whining of people that do not post content themselves is wonderful. The defederation nonsense is irritating. The McCarthyism is so unbelievably stupid bullshit by people that have never so much as read what it is all about. Like let’s start with the etymology, common, communal - shared by the community; public. ist - one who has a certain ideology or set of beliefs. There must be a shit ton of billionaires around here, because Marx just talked about the rights of the common people against the industrialists. It’s super outdated ancient but the issues are still the same. Louis Rossman, the Fediverse, Linux, Graphene, all these things are in the same vain. Anyone that is against ownership of their car, home, devices, and media can go back to their reddit/Facebook overlords.

  It was MASSIVELY disappointing to see .world go down this path with sublinks which appears to have started based on this logic.

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  • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Why would asking for input on thinking about something be so disappointing

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    • j4k3@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It was things said in the comments of that post and reading between the lines. I think the change is inevitable and already decided. The main active admin of .world is working on sublinks. That is enough for me to view time spent on building community on .world as a waste. If it was the other way around and they were coding in Rust and the Lemmy base was in js or whatever, maybe I’d think differently, but everything I’ve seen is a massive red flag saying sinking ship, or at least I’m on the wrong ship and regret the time spent there now. A lot of people left already. I have my other accounts, but had never made a .ml until recently in an attempt to start making sure communities were shared across larger instances, but I guess it was well timed to make the shift.

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