I think this feature will help keep communities alive if something goes wrong. I hope Lemmy implements this feature.

  • Zamboniman@lemmy.ca
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    2 years ago

    User migration as well as community migration in case of instances going into a black hole would indeed be useful features.

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      2 years ago

      They are features that will inevitably materialise sooner or later. Mastodon already has tools to accommodate this need, and lemmy runs on the same protocol. No reason the same need won’t eventually be met. Both kbin and lemmy are very new. Mastodon has been a thing for a while now, in comparison.

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    2 years ago

    I totally agree. Plus it’s an additional fail safe in case one instance gets too big or does something that makes people want to migrate, without losing popular communities that it might have.

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    2 years ago

    The ability to keep the same community name and just move to a different server is going to be so useful. Makes reddit look so primitive where you had to make some weird alternative name when the mods got crazy.

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      2 years ago

      Double content being shown to Google is kind of inevitable, given how Lemmy (and the Fediverse in general) works.