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What to do when communities die? (discuss.online)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Hello,

There is a unique problem of the fediverse. When an instance goes offline, its communities will never sync again.

Recently, vlemmy.com shutdown. Quite a few communities synced with discuss.online and other instances. Because vlemmy.com is not longer brokering communication, these communities will never be in sync again.

We have a several options:

  1. Leave them there. Do nothing.
  2. Leave them there but make a post that it's dead and hope people see it.
  3. Purge the communities. Act like they never existed.
  4. Build some elaborate system to work around vlemmy being gone. This would take a lot of work and collaboration with other instances.

Let me know what makes the most sense to you as users. Are any of you still using vlemmy communities? What about long-term planning? Maybe this isn't an issue now but what if lemmy.world vanished?

Please, let me know what you think. I'm torn on this one.

Thanks, Jason

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like 3. acknowledge it's dead, maybe provide a re-direct to a child community

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This assumes they can find that post. They'd never know if someone searches and lands on a post and not the feed. Or if they only look at their main feed and never review the community.