Idea: if you mod a community on a lemmy.somewhere you should be able to migrate it to lemmy.elsewhere which would include all post & comment links being forwarded and subbed users having their subscription updated to reflect the new location.

I'm aware this would be a way down the road as user account migration alone is still not great but it would be a great feature for the fediverse to have to avoid centralisation and mod/server admin wars.

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I disagree. If one is that important, I say those mods need to create their own instance.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They would still need to be able to migrate the community to their own instance.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah I understand that but I just disagree with automatically moving people around between instances.

[–] lorch 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

But that's not what this conversation is about.

It would be the mod/admin who moves a community to a new instance, and the users would migrate themselves to follow the community.

Neither functionality exists but I agree that users should not be moved automatically unless it's part of an SSO scenario.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s not what I read anywhere but I agree with the way you worded it.

[–] lorch 2 points 1 year ago

I might have made some of that up but thank you for catching the intent of it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I just personally wouldn’t want someone duplicating and creating me an account on another instance. Maybe if it’s developed in the future you just get a notification asking if you’d like to follow this community to such and such instance. At that point you get a prompt to accept or deny. I’m fine with that.