Why don’t all these communities just move over here instead
this post was submitted on 07 Jun 2023
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Change doesn't happen overnight. It's hard enough to convince 10 friends to change messaging platform. Imagine trying to move a whole community to a new service.
Joplin didn't have official support on r/joplinapp. It was a sub created by volunteers but as it grew in popularity it got some semblance of being official. Still afaik this post is the first one by the founder.
So I guess it's only the matter of time before someone out of Joplin community will make the sub dedicated to it to repeat the history
If I recall correctly it's technically against reddit's TOS for employees of a company to moderate the subreddit since they would be getting paid for acting as moderators, which isn't allowed. Not that reddit, you know, actually enforces that.
I have seen all this stuff about "migrating to lemmy" so here I am. But what you'd really need to do isn't just tell everyone to go make a new account, but mirror all the existing content for communities. That's what differentiates "migrating" from "making a new account". Is this possible? Planned? Contemplated?
Is it even legal within the rules of Reddit? That would involve scraping an entire community for content and moving it over.
There would need to be a significant number of new instances to accommodate that. I'm sure some will pop up, but even a single moderate sized sub sending 100% of users to lemmy could crash a handful of the top existing instances (basically wherever those 10s of thousands of users choose to go). We need more servers and decentralization.
I tried to float that idea in a few niche communities. I was downvoted to all hell, two of them outright removed the post :P I think the majority of reddit doesn't care, sadly