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Suggestion: asking for the community's thoughts before defederating with an instance (self.support)

submitted 2 years ago by Jilanico to c/support

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It'd be nice if the admins got everyone's input on these sorts of things. Admins making decisions without thought to our opinions is what drove us here from reddit. I'm not going to lose sleep over hexbear defederation in particular, but it's a disconcerting precedent.

I know I can just leave to another instance, but I've started [email protected] here and don't want to have to move that too 😓

(Apologies if this isn't the place to share suggestions. Also I do appreciate the hard work the admins are doing. My sincere thanks!!)

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[–] Candelestine 20 points 2 years ago (15 children)

I disagree.

I think it is users job to find an Instance that does things in a way they will approve of. It is not the owners job, who does all the work and maintains the hardware, to make sure their users are happy with all their decisions.

You are not locked onto World, and actually, it has far too many users already, enough to unbalance all of Lemmy. Rather than pressure Ruud to try to make the individuals here happy, I think they should simply feel encouraged to leave.

You can access all the content here from almost any other of the hundreds of Instances.

[–] Jilanico 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Instead of pushing back against your opinion, I must confess what you said would work if there was a seamless way to move accounts and communities from one instance to another. Unfortunately that's currently not the case.

It's also worth noting that an instance itself can change philosophy. It seems .world is moving from generic Lemmy to pro-world bank/imf/NATO Lemmy. I'm not necessarily for or against any of that, but I signed up for a generic Lemmy, not an echo chamber.

[–] spacedancer 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

On your first point, there are tools already for migrating accounts although still in their early stages. For example, https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim allows you to move subs and blocks to a new account in another instance, but not posts and comments. I don’t think there’s a tool yet to move a community as a mod though.

[–] Jilanico 1 points 2 years ago

Moving a community is my main concern. Also, that utility doesn't seem to allow moving post/comment history to the new account, unless I missed it.

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