I think this feature will help keep communities alive if something goes wrong. I hope Lemmy implements this feature.

  • Czele
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    22 years ago

    But that creates a problem with potential duplicate name, but there is even bigger problem. By export I assume You mean taking ownership so adopting this community into the new server, who decides that? First come first served does not look good in my eyes as a good solution. Since that community is stored as a copy in other instances it should maybe just go into read only mode for eternity

    • @[email protected]
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      12 years ago

      I’d see it as an admin only tool. You already have a name-uniqueness problem and solution. You can already make a new community with the same babe on a different instance. I.e. there is nothing stopping you making [email protected] when I already am running [email protected]. The proposed tool would allow the admin of the [email protected] to export since stuff from that instance, and presumably the admin of the new community on the new instance could import some of that stuff.

      Since follows are driven by the end user, the only practical export data would be old posts. Still, would be useful for community migration.