I’ve seen a few comments in the other thread about community centrization

Your following, blocking, muting, and domain-blocking lists can be imported at Settings > Import, where they can either be merged or overwritten.

Mastodon currently does not support importing posts or media due to technical limitations

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/#export

Seems pretty similar to the way we manage it with Lemmy at the moment (settings menu, export JSON, import JSON), am I missing something?

  • aasatru@kbin.earth
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    3 months ago

    On Mastodon it’s all about who you’re following and who you’re being followed by, so being able to move somewhere else and take your followers with you is a big deal.

    On the Threadiverse we don’t really follow users so much, so the whole concept of account migration becomes very different. Migration of communities rather than of users would probably be the best parallel - it would be great if subscribers could automatically follow a migrating community without having to manually resubscribe.

    • Blaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I see. On the other hand, I’ve done it a few times (you announce it beforehand, create the new community, lock the old community with a pinned post) and it’s usually okay. Not ideal of course, but still not a breaking point.

      The argument I’ve seen a few times is that “communities should be able to move all of their posts and comments elsewhere, on Mastodon it’s possible”, but it doesn’t seem to be the case from the OP.

      • aasatru@kbin.earth
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        3 months ago

        Ah yeah, it’s not possible on Mastodon either. Your content stays where it is.

        I think it’s even less of a problem on the Threadiverse than it is on Mastodon though. Most people are interested in new content here, we rarely go digging too much through the archives. Though it would of course be neat.

        • Zaktor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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          3 months ago

          From experience moderating on Reddit, user histories were pretty useful in judging whether they just made a mistake or were ban evading or trolling. If a fresh account drops in with a trollish comment as their first interaction with the community, they might just catch a ban rather than being treated as a good faith poster who came in too hot and deserves a second chance.

          So if you migrate accounts in Lemmy, you’ll have to pay that price over again and risk more strict moderation because you have no history, whereas a Mastodon-like link to their previous account would establish a baseline.

          • aasatru@kbin.earth
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            3 months ago

            Yeah, sure. But then again everyone should aim to behave in a way where it doesn’t take goodwill not to ban them - especially here, where you might be banned from some instances but not others, and never even know it.

            In that sense, if you were to migrate your profile, your bans should also migrate with you.

        • Ademir@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
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          3 months ago

          we rarely go digging too much through the archives

          Not for day to day use, but the main value reddit had was because of good information posted there. I hope Lemmy could replace reddit on that matter too. So when you need to search for something online you could use the fediverse as a good source instead of proprietary sites.