•  alehel   ( @alehel@beehaw.org ) 
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      121 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.

    •  leif   ( @leif@beehaw.org ) OP
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      91 year ago

      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

      • 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.

    • 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 ) 
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      41 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?