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

submitted 1 year 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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[-] indigomirage@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

At first I thought this was a great idea. But need to understand a bit more about the security implications for those that subscribe and post to the communities that want to do a move. It's one thing to trust your credentials to the host server, but quite another to implicitly trust the community mod who wishes to move. How would the old posts migrate? How would integrity of the constituent posts be preserved? How easy would it be to inject comments into to historical posts and republish them on the new, official, server? Could you be held liable (whether officially or through reputational risk) for posting content that wasn't really yours? Maybe there are good mechanisms to maintain integrity of data? I'm just not sure what they are.

I think there may be implications to this that are not obvious.

Happy to have these concerns assuaged, of course!

[-] Historical_General@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Possibly some kind of democratic voting system would work? Or maybe the mods must all vote to do the move. Just an idea from when I saw another instance do a vote (for federation) using emojis, on a post, and they just counted them basically.

(edit: The mastadon method seems feasible though posts need to move too.)