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  • At some point it could be necessary to close registrations which would be fine as there are other instances people can use and Lemmy has shown that the dev-run instance doesn’t need to be the biggest.

    Is this something that you project could be required to implemented on a long-term basis? I ask this because new accounts (and this goes for anywhere) can sometimes just be instantly forgotten and abandoned, meaning that you would be in effect overseeing your own userbase tanking as older accounts just get forgotten but no-one can ‘replace’ them (in the sense of signing up).

    In my mind, some kind of automated clean-up system is ideal here but idk how that would work without accidently purging alt accounts with specific purposes.












  • Flooding a community with news/journalistic/article type content, if you’re willing to keep doing it genuinely does work (topic of the community depending). If you run a community where there is a constant stream of news and articles coming out that can be posted to it, people will naturally click in and comment. Some will subscribe, increasing the glass ceiling each day.

    The worst thing you can do is have periods of non-activity because you can’t think of anything original to post, and no-one else is going to do it because the community has dropped off all trending metrics. Fake it until you make it.


  • SkavautoFediverse@lemmy.worldIs the Fediverse stalling?
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    I’d object and probably complain and it’d get your instance blacklisted. I’d support all community migrations being made publicly known - so you can see the timestamps and paper trail of a community.

    But this isn’t quite the way that community migration would work here - it’s not quite the same thing. You would be attempting to give the impression I am actively contributing to a community I’m not - whereas I’m talking about moving a community from instance A to B. The community for all intents and purpose is the same.

    If I posted actively to a community I do not own or moderate and they moved server and thus took my posts there with them, I wouldn’t really object to that.


  • Well currently an admin could easily intervene and stop a migration by removing the community mods, to be fair.

    For example, now that I am working on an AP server, I can take all your posts on !television@piefed.social and mirror them on !television@metacritics.zone. I could also avoid sending notifications to you, so you’d be aware of this only if you visited the site directly. How would you feel about that?

    I mean you could just copy my posts anyway manually, if you were so inclined. There wouldn’t be much I could do about it no matter how you did it.



  • I do. I care very much about identity and authenticity in the Fediverse. A server that can take posts done in one group and publish as their own is as unreliable as a server who puts fake posts impersonating a popular user.

    Then we’re at an impasse. But communities becoming completely modular and movable solves the problems you speak of. That’s the answer.

    again, why you are talking about Lemmy only? Mastodon instances from all sizes go down every other week.

    Because I don’t really care or know that much about Mastodon.


  • First, I think that community migration implementation from PieFed has very bad implications. It is literally rewriting history.

    I don’t really care about that. If the idea of communities being effectively modular becomes an accepted standard, then no-one will blink an eye at their posts on a prior community being redirected after the fact to another instance.

    Second, if we want to make the Fediverse something really accessible, it needs to be a lot more reliable. Yeah, when we are a few thousand people it’s easy to coordinate the migration of a few dozen communities. But if we are talking about millions or billions of people, we can not afford to have constant failures.

    We don’t have constant failures though? What are you referring to here? Lemm.ee crashed out due to owner/admins burnout. That’s the only major one i can think of.