I I wasn't talking in a place where the developers gather. I was talking here. With other users, whom I assumed would have the health of the fediverse in mind.

The idea wasn't me stating a final idea of "do this now!". It was more of a starting point of a think tank. I was expecting to start the batton running, and pass it off to the next idea, or the continuation of the idea.

Instead, nobody joined in. Nobody took the batton. They swatted the batton down, and collectively said "No batton! No change!"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

They swatted the batton down, and collectively said “No batton! No change!”

That's not what happened. People just agreed that other features have a higher priority.

The list of upcoming features is available here: https://join-lemmy.org/news/2024-09-11_-_New_NLnet_funding_for_Lemmy

Among them

Multicommunities
Moderation tools improvement
Private communities
Post tags
Ease discovery of federated communities
Post scheduling
Plugin system
Etc.

Which one of those features would you deprioritize compared to the account migration?

[–] Rolando 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I was expecting to start the batton running, and pass it off to the next idea, or the continuation of the idea.

I think I see what you're saying. Lemmy is indeed a place where it's very easy to get involved, and people get involved in different ways. A lot of us just pick a community and start posting regularly. Some of us adopt dormant communities and bring them back to life. Others contribute by becoming mods or admins or setting up their own instances or debugging/coding. Even those people who were giving you reasons why the "transfer your account easily" project was difficult, they were helping you by telling you the challenges involved. Whenever a well-run project is started, you think about the hurdles, risks, and mitigations, then integrate those into your project plan.

I encourage you to keep getting involved. The trick is to find the right level of involvement for you, then sticking with it and seeing it through.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Nice comment, also cool to see you around