HobbitFoot

I try to prioritize doing the least work as possible. This has shockingly helped my career as my laziness means I’m efficient at work.

His buddy, Robert Rodriguez, did him a solid.

But you’ve consistently stated that the first step if an admin tries to build that sort of thing and does something that you disagree with is to leave. Don’t try to talk with the admins to help build a stable place, just leave.

I don’t see that as a good first step.

Outside of .ml and beehaw, what admins are that active and communicative with users in general? Who is publishing policy on how they are running their instance and showing how they are following through on it?

Most Lemmy instances are small hobbies run by vibes dictoral control of a single person and people change over time. Unless you build your own instance, admin relations will always be something that you have to deal with.

The mod in question is a major Star Trek nerd and there was a massive falling out recently with the user base of startrek.website and the mods/admins, which is why a lot of them moved to .world in the first place.

But what if your email did shit like that every year? Or now you have to switch messaging with a group of friends and some don’t want to jump to a certain new app?

But who changes their email every year?

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.

Yeah, and the end result may be that a lot of subs leave. However, I would try other things first.

But why do through all that first before trying to talk to the admins?

Depends on where they move, doesn’t it?

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.

Pick a good instance and it won’t happen.

Up until a week ago, .world was acceptable. Then it wasn’t. People change and communities change. Without an attempt to even discuss policy, this is going to become a major problem that keeps growing.

Why not just leave it behind as a record?

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.

Again, the whole point of federation is that we don’t cut all ties

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.

This isn’t regarding a user, but where a community is being hosted.

Are all major community members in Lemmys that are federated to where the community is being moved?

What happens to the community’s data, since it won’t get carried over?

What prevents this issue from happening again in a new instance?

For a platform that is meant to communicate, it seems funny that a lot of people’s gut reactions to coordination problems is to cut all ties and leave.

Migration as a sub is rash since it involves moving a community of people.

It is going to be a learning experience for mods and admins on Lemmy. It took years for Reddit to cobble together a governance structure and, even then, it was really bad. I haven’t seen the devs take any stance on building tools to help and we’ve seen a lot of cases where mod abuse have been defended by admins.

This seems to be a first stab at admins taking a proactive approach to mod abuse. It is a bad policy, but at least they seem like they are trying to do something.

Yeah. You can also get the cheap 16-50 and 55-210 lenses to give a decent range on what to take photos of.

I look at it as a personal decision. People still post about their project on their main account even if it is well known.

At the point where you don’t want to link your hobby to your main account or want your main account affecting your hobby.

I’ve had one hobby that I pushed to a new account quickly when I realized I wanted to publicly display it and I didn’t want that display to be linked to the account I was posting it from

Tankie mods on world are criticized for being too tankie in moderation.

Admins try to address this by forcing mods to argue instead of immediately ban if something is posted against their beliefs.

A non-tankie mod thinks it is bullshit that they have to engage in every online argument in good faith and takes their subs (I know this isn’t the official term but it communicates the idea) dark in protest.

Migration as a first choice is rash.