(De)centralisation of Lemmy communities in numbers

Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 months ago

(De)centralisation of Lemmy communities in numbers

hamid@lemmy.world · 4 months ago

I’m extremely grateful for all the work Ruud and his team has done to make Lemmy.world possible but I see the limitations in it that I didn’t understand 9 months ago when I started. My communities are all pretty small and I guess I can just start over but I wish there was a way to migrate my comm to a new instance with my subscriber lists and posts so that I can move my sillyness to a small well maintained instance

Blaze@dormi.zone · 4 months ago

Hello,

I migrated a few communities in the past. Usually, it’s okay, except if you really have a lot of valuable content, it happens quite smoothly.

If people ask, it was from !dundermifflin@lemmy.ml to !dundermifflin@lemm.ee

hamid@lemmy.world · 4 months ago

How did you do that? Just cross posting everything?

Blaze@dormi.zone · 4 months ago

Negative:

Ask the community if they would be okay to move. If there is a big backlash, just stay there.
Open the new community on the new instance, add the sidebar, the banner, everything to make it look like the previous one.
Post the the old community a link to the new community. Lock the old community.
Add a few posts to the new community to make the transition smoother

hamid@lemmy.world · 4 months ago

Ah I see, that isn’t really what I had in mind, bummer. That to me is starting over which is I guess the plan. Thanks!

AMillionNames@sh.itjust.works · edit-2 4 months ago

The biggest problem with “federation” is the control given to bullshit admins in some of the biggest and how big into hiding their problems they are. One of the biggest instances has shoved two of their admins under the rug, without openly acknowledging why they did it or the drama there clearly is behind it, giving the impression that the problems those admins were creating have been addressed on one side and on the other just trying to dismiss it as “no big deal, they are just taking time off”.

So keep in mind joining some of those instances is just joining a good paint job. Sometimes, the rust breaks through, sometimes the rusted pieces get removed, but the people painting over the rust are still there.

It matters because when communities crowd around large instances, those admins have ultimate control over participation within them. And while easy to bypass, it will still affect the reputation your comment history would have represented.

db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · edit-2 4 months ago

They ignored lemmy.dbzer0.com

poVoq@slrpnk.net · 4 months ago

I think they included it as “/0”

PoorPocketsMcNewHold@lemmy.ml · 4 months ago

Sadly still stuck on the OG lemmy.ml. Still waiting impatiently to be able to migrate my account to an another smaller instance.

Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 months ago

What do you mean waiting to migrate?

Post history migration will never be implemented. But you can already use apps to move over your subscribe lists etc.