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r/ModCoord has officially recommended migration off of Reddit. (kbin.social)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/RedditMigration@kbin.social
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[–] 53 points 3 years ago (14 children)

I will be thrilled if we end up with some experienced Reddit mods running communities or instances of their own.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    It will be an interesting time for sure. I hope it can work out in a way that skilled moderators can be compensated for their efforts. It seems like donation-supported instances for niche communities isn't too unrealistic right now, though that doesn't solve the volunteer labor problem. Cleverer things will probably become possible as the technology improves.

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  • [+] 7 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (4 children)
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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    Well it's certainly a question of scale. I've seen some successful indie projects where the hosting costs are met by donations, but that's usually when the admin/dev(s) are donating their labor. I struggle to imagine a community that could crowdfund enough for a few reasonable salaries on top of hosting costs.

    Though my imagination isn't particularly strong, so I would be delighted if such a thing came to be!

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    The last I want after all this is corporations to come and try to take over or spread ads and marketing everywhere. Sure, it will probably happen anyway, but I‘m gonna go to some instance that defederates from them.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Instance based communities sound really interesting until it comes to the matter of an instance needing to be shut down. I hope the portability factor of Lemmy gets better, because that's an easy way to lose tons of valuable informarion.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    The information won't necessarily be lost, because most/all? the instances that were previously federated with the shut-down instance should have cached copies of its activity. Not sure on what scale, or how far back, content caching will be, but I imagine admins have (or should have) the ability to configure that sort of thing

    Now, from the perspective of a user looking to migrate to a new platform, not being able to "take it with you" is a valid concern. Mastodon seems to have account export nailed down, but lemmy/kbin are still pretty new and might need time to implement something like this

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