Are the registry procedures causing the problem? Since most of my communities are on lemmy.ml, wouldn’t I still be using lemmy.lm’s bandwidth? Or is it more crucial to ensure that the communities are distributed more evenly across different instances?

  • pootedesu@latte.isnot.coffeeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    To get serious about distribution, I think there needs to be a few features implemented;

    • User migration. Allow people who find themselves on an overstuffed server to migrate to a different instance
    • Community grouping / merging. If there are multiple communities for the exact same thing, allow the mods to group them or merge them to not fracture the user base
    • User data import / export or cloud backup to a personal provider. If one day your server instance just disappears, it would be nice to know I have a backup of my user data, subscribed communities, saved posts and comments, and maybe a way to relink to my old posts and comments across the fediverse.

    Just a few ideas I was thinking about that could possibly help users move around.