Are we committed to Lemmy? or would we move if something better comes along?
No one really knows how things will play out but I was wondering if people are committed to Lemmy, or would the mod team migrate to greener pastures if a better, more functional alternative comes to the forefront.
I'm hoping Lemmy can improve but I personally don't love using it. Its still early days though so that might change. There are a couple promising alternatives in development right now but since they aren't out, everyone is migrating to lemmy.
As someone with a disability, the UI/UX is problematic and makes me physically ill after using it for a short period of time.
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Been here for a few years now. It's the same as always. Use a site til it turns evil/bad, then move on, someone else will take its place.
I love the idea of lemmy tho. and so far so good. But dont be married or make it personal if something turns bad online.
Fediverse apps (though not Lemmy yet because they sort of accidentally exploded in popularity) let you migrate your data. This is the killer app, so there's very little opportunity for Lemmy to "go bad". Unlike Reddit where this sort of thing has to be built out separately and Reddit itself may take action (such as removing API, because they think they own your data), Fediverse explicitly has the functionality so you can move. This means moving from Lemmy to some other fedi-app should be fairly easy.
Unfortunately migration isn’t built into Lemmy yet, but I’d guess it’s on their feature wishlist.
There are issues opened on the GitHub for it already.
Mastodon already has it; it just needs to made a thing in Lemmy too.
I was wondering about that. But I can't find an easy way to do it.
If I hypothetically wanted to move from from lemmy.ml to another instance, how would I do it short of starting over without my subscriptions/comments/posts?
My understanding is that the functionality does not exist yet, but fediverse apps should have apis which enable this (which means it should be on the roadmap for lemmy). Since then I've learned that these APIs have some holes but overall the intent IIUC is that you can take your content and go elsewhere. This means instances cannot pull a reddit and leverage the content against you.