Comment on Spreading of the 100 biggest Lemmy communities
MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 5 weeks agoThe thing is that the value is in the communities and not in the old content. So most likely the mods would just post we move to a new instance and a lot of users would follow. We just saw that on the German speakin lemmy instance feddit.de, which was abandoned and now most of the users and communities moved to feddit.org, which is already one of the larger ones.
What lemmy really needs is the ability to easily move accounts and communities. Mastodon has that for users already.
What lemmy really needs is the ability to easily move accounts and communities. Mastodon has that for users already.
Mastodon still doesn’t allow to move posts and comments
Mastodon currently does not support importing posts or media due to technical limitations
el_abuelo@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
The lack of migration is what kept me on ml for several days after I found out what they consider ml stands for.
One click migration to a different instance would be a huge benefit to the decentralisation effort.
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
It’s Mali, right? Right? Not some reference to communism?
Nath@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
The problem with this is trust. If you could seamlessly migrate like this, there’s nothing to stop someone faking a long post/comment on their own instance, making them look very legitimate and then migrating that account to a trusted/legitimate instance.
Then using that for spam/selling block chain etc.
People are the reason we can’t have nice things.
Blaze@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
Isn’t that much easier nowadays with the one click settings export-import?