And that requires a lot of coordination, both with the user base to make sure the jump goes well for them and probably with the admins of the instance they are jumping to in order to make sure this doesn’t happen again.
A community is intentionally destroying itself to make a new one somewhere else. That’s a larger impact than you are making it out to be.
That speaks more to a lack of community, doesn’t it? If it’s an actual community then it should be possible to get a message out to everyone that they’re moving and make sure no one gets lost. If they can’t coordinate without destroying themselves then I think this is a deeper problem that we need to address.
Up until a week ago, .world was acceptable.
The signs were there. I think it is possible to understand who the admins are, what they believe, and what kind of community they are trying to build. The .world instance was always meant to be a reddit clone. That should have been a red flag.
This, too, speaks to a lack of community. How can you call it community if you don’t even know who your admins are?
Why would one instance keep the data from a group of people that left and whose community is now locked? Or maybe the admins give mod privileges to a different set of mods and now you’ve got two competing groups.
Fair. I guess my idea of using a bot to migrate all the content is the other option, but I don’t know if a tool like that exists. This, along with the lack of true community, are things for us to think about for the future.
Federation is as easy to migrate an email, but moving from one email account to another isn’t seamless. There is even more of a sunken cost as the database is public facing and can’t be move across instances like an email archive can be.
And the purpose of federation isn’t the ability to switch accounts freely, it isn’t built into the system. The purpose is like email, you can access multiple servers controlled by different groups from your own server controlled by people you’ve vetted.
The purpose is like email, you can access multiple servers controlled by different groups from your own server controlled by people you’ve vetted.
But that’s just it - when these different groups betray us we are enabled by federation to move to a different server. In this case, the admins failed the vetting process.
If your email service started doing shit you didn’t like, such as forcing you to deal with spam email instead of blocking it, then you’d move to a different service.
That speaks more to a lack of community, doesn’t it? If it’s an actual community then it should be possible to get a message out to everyone that they’re moving and make sure no one gets lost. If they can’t coordinate without destroying themselves then I think this is a deeper problem that we need to address.
The signs were there. I think it is possible to understand who the admins are, what they believe, and what kind of community they are trying to build. The .world instance was always meant to be a reddit clone. That should have been a red flag.
This, too, speaks to a lack of community. How can you call it community if you don’t even know who your admins are?
Fair. I guess my idea of using a bot to migrate all the content is the other option, but I don’t know if a tool like that exists. This, along with the lack of true community, are things for us to think about for the future.
But why do through all that first before trying to talk to the admins?
The admins made their new policy very clear and people have already expressed their outrage about it. The discussion is kind of over.
Yeah, and the end result may be that a lot of subs leave. However, I would try other things first.
And I wouldn’t. Federation is supposed to make it easy to migrate. That was the whole point.
I guess we just disagree about the purpose of federation.
Federation is as easy to migrate an email, but moving from one email account to another isn’t seamless. There is even more of a sunken cost as the database is public facing and can’t be move across instances like an email archive can be.
And the purpose of federation isn’t the ability to switch accounts freely, it isn’t built into the system. The purpose is like email, you can access multiple servers controlled by different groups from your own server controlled by people you’ve vetted.
But that’s just it - when these different groups betray us we are enabled by federation to move to a different server. In this case, the admins failed the vetting process.
But who changes their email every year?
If your email service started doing shit you didn’t like, such as forcing you to deal with spam email instead of blocking it, then you’d move to a different service.