This is an opportunity for any users, server admins, or interested third parties to ask anything they’d like to @nutomic@lemmy.ml and I about Lemmy. This includes its development and future, as well as wider issues relevant to the social media landscape today.

Note: This will be the thread tmrw, so you can use this thread to ask and vote on questions beforehand.

Original Announcement thread

  • CheshireSnake@iusearchlinux.fyi
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    1 year ago

    First of all, I’d like to say thank you and that I appreciate your work. Lemmy is great and I’ve found a new home (at least for the foreseeable future). I first joined lemmy.ml once I learned about lemmy, and I have to say I had a good experience there. You guys even responded directly to my noob questions, and I honestly felt welcome which helped me decide to stay.

    My questions are about account migration. As you may have already seen, I’m not with lemmy.ml anymore. The reason is I saw you guys stickied a post encouraging users to use different instances (since the server was having trouble with the influx of redditors at that time). I figured I’d help by first moving to a smaller instance. I have no regrets, although switching was a bit tricky since I had to start from scratch.

    What are your thoughts on account migration? Is it in the works or is it something that’s a little far into the future? No pressure since I know you guys are busy with other stuff.

    • nutomic@lemmy.mlM
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      1 year ago

      Account migration is not in the works, and I consider it very low priority. Unlike Mastodon, Lemmy isnt focused on individual users, so it doesnt matter much if you start posting from another instance one day. If its important for you, you can always put a link in your profile to your other accounts. I would rather implement a way to export/import account data. Thats much simpler and can also be used as a backup in case your instance goes down.

      • CheshireSnake@iusearchlinux.fyi
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        1 year ago

        I would rather implement a way to export/import account data.

        This is perfectly reasonable. I think a lot of users will be happy with this. Also, I agree with the view that lemmy isn’t focused on individual users. We have X, Mastodon, etc. for that. Thanks for the response!

      • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        I would rather implement a way to export/import account data. Thats much simpler and can also be used as a backup in case your instance goes down.

        This makes a lot of sense and would be quite useful too! As taking your posts with you is hard to implement (AFAIU), migration really just comes down to importing data like subscriptions.

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        1 year ago

        For communities, howver, it is much more important thing. Re-tart a community from scratch on another instance has a huge “cost”.

        • nutomic@lemmy.mlM
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          1 year ago

          Thats true, but community migration seems complicated to implement so it will have to wait.