This will take place ~24 hours from now. Feel free to post and upvote questions beforehand in this post, as it will turn into the AMA tomorrow.
This is a chance for any users, admins, or developers to ask anything they’d like to myself, @nutomic@lemmy.ml , @SleeplessOne1917@lemmy.ml , or @phiresky@lemmy.ml about Lemmy, its future, and wider issues about the social media landscape today.
First, I want to say thank you for the incredible job you already have done in this area. However, do you have any thoughts on further improving some fundamental Lemmy UX painpoints? Examples such as:
Isn’t that implemented in the 19.2 and later versions? I just migrated using that feature a few days back, worked quite well
That would be awesome if true. It’s processing faster than I thought. I’m still just learning about the scaled sort and enjoying that new feature lol.
It’s only subscriptions, blocks, and user settings iirc. Your posts and comments don’t migrate for example.
Still that’s not bad. Wish they could get saved posts to transfer, too. That would be useful.
Importing posts and comments could cause a security risk if someone would to abuse that function.
Even Mastodon doesn’t support it
https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/
More importantly it would make exports extremely large and would cause a lot of server load to import/export. Plus you would end up with duplicate posts and comments which seems like a bad idea.
Yes, that’s what I meant by security risk, that’s like a DoS feature.
I’m pretty sure it is there, you can export and import your subscriptions in the settings
As @phiresky@lemmy.world mentioned we have improvements coming down the pipe for linking content across instances.
Community linking and user linking do work currently (for example I just linked phiresky above), and a community example would be !risa@startrek.website , but we could improve this by extending it to posts and comments, as well as creating a url link standard that would work across apps.
Can you add one to your list? Linking posts across instances? Like you can do
!community@instance
and the community will open viewed through your instance. But for linking posts there is no such equivalent. Like if I make an HTTP link it will be through my instance or possibly the one the community is hosted on which would be annoying for users of other instances.Also, linking communities across instances is possible already, but you can leave it up since it’s confusing. I still see a lot of folks try to do the reddit approach if
c/community
Turning the fediverse button into an “open on my instance” with similar functionality to subscribing may also be a solution here. Bonus points if it’ll also open a comment on mastodon.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/2318
Yup that’d be sick
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2987
Really like your protocol handlers contribution here. Seems tough to square with multiple accounts though.