Comment on Instance freezing as an alternative to full shut down

• null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yeah, again… unpopular opinion but just embrace the transience. How necessary is “transferring” a community. There’s very few communities with content that provides some kind of reference.

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  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Exactly.

    If you’re making posts or comments that you want preserved, you should be backing them up anyway.

    It would be nice if the export function copied saved items as well as subs and blocks though.

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    • mosiacmango@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It does copy saved items.

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      • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        It does? I have no clue how I missed that. Thank you very much

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• Penguincoder@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  ActivityPub does not have that feature or ability. Other federation type software does. But being as Lemmy is built with ActivityPub for federation, it can’t offer instance independent identities.

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  • Irelephant@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/…/fep-ef61.md

    It does, as an FEP.

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• veniasilente@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Not just transferring communities, but also posting history (much of what makes a user’s identity).

  I’m starting to think that the best way to use Lemmy for posterity is actually the same way as using Reddit for posterity (assuming you’d want to do that): rather than submit your comments directly there, post them in your own blog or smth and just make your lemmy/reddit comments links to your home-comments.

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  • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Do people really make comments with that level of gravity though?

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• Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  transfering the communities.

  lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/45876780

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  • lily33@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’d say it doesn’t count unless it also moves all followers, which this doesn’t.

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    • Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It would if all the users were on Piefed instances. I instantly got 100 subscribers on that community as they were Piefed users.

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