• @nutomic@lemmy.mlOPM
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    02 years ago

    Not in an automated way. You would have to tell them to subscribe to the new community, and unsubscribe from the old one.

    • @pingveno@lemmy.ml
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      2 years ago

      Possibly a future feature? The Internet’s history is, after all, littered with the refuse of failed communities. It would be sad for Lemmy to hasten that issue. It would also help communities graduate from attaching to another instance to being their own instance if there was a social split (e.g. moderation decisions) or they outgrew their host instance.

      • @skariko@lemmy.ml
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        02 years ago

        Also this is one of the most important feature (for me) on the fediverse. If an instance “goes bad” it’s good transfer all on other istance. By the way my question was in this topic because i already have 100followers on my community and this is one of the reason can’t open another istance if i can’t import all the followers.

        • @nutomic@lemmy.mlOPM
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          02 years ago

          That is actually a very good point, i never thought about it in that way. The main question about this is probably how it should work from a UX perspective. One way would be to have a mod action which changes the subscription of all users to the new community. But there would be a risk that a hacker could target mod accounts, to redirect users to his own community/instance for malicious purposes. We could send a notification to users to inform them about the change. And the old community might have to be locked or deleted (permanently or reversible?)

          cc @dessalines@lemmy.ml

          • DessalinesM
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            12 years ago

            The profile move section here for mastodon seems relevant.

            We’d have to support a “move” activity that followers would receive, and it could overwrite their database with the new community url, and refollow.

            This should probably be limited to the top mod.

            All this is also predicated on that instance still being alive, and long enough for that move request to get federated everywhere.

            This would be really difficult, and a ton of work, all just so people wouldn’t have to click the subscribe button for a community resurrected elsewhere. So I’m not sure its really worth it.