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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    1 year ago

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

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      1 year ago

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

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        1 year ago

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

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          1 year ago

          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.

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            1 year ago

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

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              1 year ago

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

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            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.

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            1 year ago

            I’m running one. It doesn’t require a lot of resources.

            If you end up with a crazy substantial amount of users it can get dicey, but if the community is that amazing the donations would probably roll in.