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With the defederation active, how has it affected your subscriptions? (beehaw.org)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Now that we're no longer linked to lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works we can't subscribe to their communities any more.

How affected were your subscriptions? How many of your subs stopped working?

My subs were mostly beehaw and lemmy.world so I'm looking for new stuff. :)

Do you have some tips for interesteing communities on other instances?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Honestly feel like this is more reason to join a smaller instance which can interact with all of these communities. It takes some of the load off of the bigger instances, you can have a closer relationship to the mods/admins of your instance, and have protection against drama that goes down between the bigger instance

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We really just need a way to migrate accounts (with post histories, etc.) from one instance to another. I know it's been a hotly requested topic; hopefully it gets added at some point.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I wonder how that would work if an instance gets abruptly shut down. Maybe each time you make an account you get a 'recovery key' that you can link to your new account on a new instance, thereby taking ownership of your old posts (or at least the ones that got federated out of your old instance).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's actually true.

It's going to take a while to have all the dust settle and for everything to stabilize I suppose

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

ha, if it turns out anything like mastodon, it'll be the medium to small instances that have the biggest amount of defederation drama. This whole thing is the most amicable defederation I've ever seen.

Small instances have otherwise been good for mastodon though