Post #2096196 · Elektrine

2026-04-27 12:15 UTC

I’ve composed some really high quality comments and posts on this account which I would rather not lose if pawb.social somehow goes rogue. But, really, it’s the communities being tied to instances that is a far bigger problem. Most lemmy.world users are anti-zionist and unaware of the admin team biases. It’s unfair and misleading to assume a lemmy.world user is zionist just from their instance, and plenty of communities have been created there which are the de-facto fediverse defaults for the topic, and thus subject to the whims of the lemmy.world admin/mod team. Basically, community moderators are like vassals to the instance admins/moderators, who are functionally lords, who serve at the pleasure of the instance owner/host, functionally the kings. It’s a really serious issue, and I think we should address it sooner rather than later by decentralizing away from lemmy.world and lemmy.ml, but that’s difficult to do now that the communities are already established, and would likely be resisted by lemmy.world who have an incentive to maintain their position of dominance.

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@Skavau@piefed.social 2026-04-27 12:18

Piefed already does have a community migration system - But it’s long-term goal is to make communities completely modular, allowing a community owner to completely move an entire community from one instance to another. I have even called for it to also shift subscribers of that community too when a community moves. Account shifting in the same way hasn’t been spoken about, but it sounds like a good idea.

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@misk@piefed.social 2026-04-27 12:58

I’ve composed some really high quality comments and posts on this account which I would rather not lose if pawb.social somehow goes rogue. This content was backed up to multiple instances so it won’t be lost that easily. Fediverse platforms/protocols aren’t that great at archival so I embrace that this is more of a place of discussion rather than storage which traditional forums excel at. Basically, community moderators are like vassals to the instance admins/moderators, who are functionally lords, who serve at the pleasure of the instance owner/host, functionally the kings. The difference being that you can create your own kingdom easily because we have access to unlimited land and resources, making any attempt at control futile, which is something that kings have to keep in mind. It’s a really serious issue, and I think we should address it sooner rather than later by decentralizing away from lemmy.world and lemmy.ml, but that’s difficult to do now that the communities are already established, and would likely be resisted by lemmy.world who have an incentive to maintain their position of dominance. I’m doing my part by not contributing any content to communities hosted on those instances but we can’t make people happy against their will. If you’re worried that we need to outcompete them in some popularity metrics remember that half of humanity is dumber than an average person ;)

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