Sadly its a major case of “But all my stuff is here”
Comment on PSA: the largest piracy community is blocked from lemmy.world
mojo@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Why are so many people still on Lemmy world. We’re supposed to be decentralized. One of the benefits to decentralization is that you can choose to avoid blocks like this. Stop centralizing!
mudmaniac@lemmy.world 1 year ago
mojo@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Yeah account migration/export-import needs to come really soon
ReaderTunesOctopus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
For one, my chosen server disappeared without any sign in a puff of logic, so I’m back here
ryannathans@lemmy.world 1 year ago
My first two home instances disappeared
obinice@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Indeed, might it be a good idea for the very long term, keeping an account active for a decade plus I mean, ensuring you have access to everything and all communities etc, to run your own instance that’s literally just for you, not publicly available?
It would cost pennies, after all. I was thinking about it.
Rose@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Could you explain how it’s pennies, rather than over $100 a year for the domain and the server?
Malfeasant@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Server is “free” in that it can run on the computer you already have, with the Internet connection you already have. Domain registration is fairly cheap, I last paid $65 for 5 years. I haven’t shopped around in a while so there could be cheaper options. SSL cert can be had for free though you will have to renew it every 3 months, but that can often be automated…
Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 year ago
In my case, I was on another server that suddenly got flooded by people I profoundly disagreed with with their own meme-ridden culture that made it very unbearable. Lemmy.world seems more generalized in nature and less political. But dunno, maybe I’ll hop again soon.
flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Probably because there is not an easy toggle to migrate a user account to a new home instance. I know there are tools for it. But it won’t matter if there is not a button on a sign up page that says “migrate from another instance” that does it for you programmaticly.
mojo@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Yeah we really need a migrate ability soon like Mastodon.
fidodo@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I just have multiple accounts for multiple use cases. It’s really dumb to have your piracy activity on the same account you do everything else on anyways.
chic_luke@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Fair point, but it seems absurd to me that a supposedly community-based instance gets harsher on privacy than a corporation that’s about to IPO. That seems off to me.
Another thing that seems off is that this announcement has been made on the Discord server. Now, I don’t want to come across as that guy. I admit I use Discord regularly, because that’s what my friends are on and all efforts to migrate them to something more privacy-respective have been futile, mostly due to the lack of fleshed-out and comparable alternatives for now. But… why should a Fediverse instance have an official server on Discord? I feel like it kinda goes against the whole philosophy of this entire thing. Then again I’m new, so I might be in the wrong here. But wouldn’t a Matrix server or something be a better fit for this sort of thing?
Or maybe I am just having the standard Fediverse experience of realizing I chose the most popular instance to stay on the safe side, but I keep finding more and more things I really don’t like about it. I’m considering hopping already, and it’s only been a few days :(
chic_luke@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Sync. I come from Reddit and that’s what my favorite client defaults too.
And now, just like it ended up with Mastodon, I’ll have to maintain multiple accounts for Lemmy. Such a good user experience, it will totally catch on…
Seriously. Accept this piece of advice from someone new to the Fediverse. Being harsher on piracy than a fucking corporation and forcing users to migrate accounts left and right / have multiple accounts to be able to easily access content out of your Mastodon instance’s niche and having to get around your instance defederating and blocking content you wanted to see is just abysmal UX. Are we supposed to have our content scattered around how many accounts? And for those who don’t like mobile apps, at this point I can only use Sync (Lemmy) and Tusky (Mastodon) through my phone to browse the Fediverse for lack of a good option to maintain multiple accounts on desktop. Firefox containers are just overkill for this, but I welcome suggestions.
End rand. Is lemmy.ml good to get around this block?
DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
For me personally having multiple accounts is no big thing.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
I’ve been enjoying !Lemmy.zip. We’ve only defederates from a few instances and it’s all by vote. It seems to be a good place to be so far.
josep@freiburg.social 1 year ago
That's great. I think defederation should be a last resort option, as it weakens the ability of users tow switch instances, if they have to fear, to no longer be able to acces their former communities, resulting in the walled gardens which hold all those instagram users hostage unable to make the switch. and @chic_luke I can recommende tootle for desktop use of mastodon. It supports multiple accounts