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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[–] RickRussell_CA@kbin.social 32 points 1 year ago (21 children)

But that also makes it incredibly easy for communities on defederated servers to set up shop elsewhere.

And those communities may be the sole reason that the server was defederated in the first place.

I think a possible outcome is that the larger instances would have to put a stop to open creation of new communities, to prevent toxic groups from setting up shop and moving all their objectionable content and users into the space.

[–] dudebro@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Meh. I think if users focused more on blocking what they don't want to see instead of defederating, then this wouldn't be an issue.

This is only a problem if you're one of the children who thinks: "I don't want to see something, so neither should anyone else."

[–] Molochalter@lemmynsfw.com 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah exactly, defederation should be limited to instances with incompetent or malicious admins, not with crap communities.

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago

The feature to allow a user to block a server not just a community should help with that.

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