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Communities should be able to move servers (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by NickwithaC@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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Idea: if you mod a community on a lemmy.somewhere you should be able to migrate it to lemmy.elsewhere which would include all post & comment links being forwarded and subbed users having their subscription updated to reflect the new location.

I'm aware this would be a way down the road as user account migration alone is still not great but it would be a great feature for the fediverse to have to avoid centralisation and mod/server admin wars.

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[-] copygirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 years ago

Allow the admins of the instance to enforce their rules?

Say you have an instance with a "no-NSFW" rule, for people who don't want to randomly come across NSFW communities. Their admins could take care of the curating of rule-breaking NSFW communities without having to resort to defederating from the entire instance. This doesn't have to be an outright block but just a filter that could prevent the community to show up in "All".

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This seems silly. Just have new users default to having the "don't show NSFW" setting enabled.

[-] dudebro@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

He's one of the "I don't want to see something so neither should anyone else" crowd.

[-] copygirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago

Incorrect. I'm fine with instances that host a variety of content. Including stuff I don't want to see.

However, I'm allowed to join an instance whose admins take a stance against bigotry for example, and therefore take better care that such content isn't allowed to freely go through their instance. That way I and a thousand of other users don't need to all block the content they don't like manually. It's my instance admin's choice, and my choice to go with their instance.