Fediverse

28574 readers

368 users here now

A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).

If you wanted to get help with moderating your own community then head over to [email protected]!

Rules

Posts must be on topic.
Be respectful of others.
Cite the sources used for graphs and other statistics.
Follow the general Lemmy.world rules.

Learn more at these websites: Join The Fediverse Wiki, Fediverse.info, Wikipedia Page, The Federation Info (Stats), FediDB (Stats), Sub Rehab (Reddit Migration), Search Lemmy

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

535

Communities should be able to move servers (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

96 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Every instance is doing this, right now. When you post on one instance, every instance with a single subscriber to the community gets sent a copy.

On kbin, even the media is stored on the instance. It helps distribute the load. Instances share posts between instances which can then each support many users.

In terms of "taking over" a community. Not so easy.

See, I could take [email protected] from my instance, do some SQL hacking and turn it into a local community. But, that would only work on my instance. Everyone else would still be following the original and the original would still exist.

For it to work it needs to be a co-ordinated community move.

Mods pick an instance with as much of the original data already federated as possible. They communicate the new home. People start subscribing, the old group is made read only with a message linking the new one.

To keep existing posts though other instances would also need to SQL hack. So adding some features to communicate and automate the SQL effort would be a nice thing.