- Grip4461 ( @Grip4461@infosec.pub ) English16•1 year ago
Why don’t all these communities just move over here instead
- alehel ( @alehel@beehaw.org ) English12•1 year ago
Change doesn’t happen overnight. It’s hard enough to convince 10 friends to change messaging platform. Imagine trying to move a whole community to a new service.
Joplin didn’t have official support on r/joplinapp. It was a sub created by volunteers but as it grew in popularity it got some semblance of being official. Still afaik this post is the first one by the founder.
So I guess it’s only the matter of time before someone out of Joplin community will make the sub dedicated to it to repeat the history
- manny_stillwagon ( @manny_stillwagon@mander.xyz ) English4•1 year ago
If I recall correctly it’s technically against reddit’s TOS for employees of a company to moderate the subreddit since they would be getting paid for acting as moderators, which isn’t allowed. Not that reddit, you know, actually enforces that.
- arctic pie (he/him) ( @arcticpiecitylights@beehaw.org ) English5•1 year ago
There would need to be a significant number of new instances to accommodate that. I’m sure some will pop up, but even a single moderate sized sub sending 100% of users to lemmy could crash a handful of the top existing instances (basically wherever those 10s of thousands of users choose to go). We need more servers and decentralization.
- crank ( @crank@beehaw.org ) English4•1 year ago
I have seen all this stuff about “migrating to lemmy” so here I am. But what you’d really need to do isn’t just tell everyone to go make a new account, but mirror all the existing content for communities. That’s what differentiates “migrating” from “making a new account”. Is this possible? Planned? Contemplated?
- alehel ( @alehel@beehaw.org ) English3•1 year ago
Is it even legal within the rules of Reddit? That would involve scraping an entire community for content and moving it over.
- unfazedbeaver ( @unfazedbeaver@lemmy.one ) English3•1 year ago
I tried to float that idea in a few niche communities. I was downvoted to all hell, two of them outright removed the post :P I think the majority of reddit doesn’t care, sadly