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.

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This is a chance for any users, admins, or developers to ask anything they’d like to myself, @nutomic@lemmy.ml , SleeplessOne , or @phiresky@lemmy.world about Lemmy, its future, and wider issues about the social media landscape today.

  • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.mlEnglish
    28·
    11 months ago

    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:

    • Migrating accounts between instances
    • Tagging users across instances
    • Linking communities across instances
    • Finding communities across instances
    • Blaze@discuss.onlineEnglish
      8·
      11 months ago

      Migrating accounts between instances

      Isn’t that implemented in the 19.2 and later versions? I just migrated using that feature a few days back, worked quite well

      • WanderingVentra@lemm.eeEnglish
        5·
        11 months ago

        That would be awesome if true. It’s progressing faster than I thought. I’m still just learning about the scaled sort and enjoying that new feature lol.

        • Blaze@discuss.onlineEnglish
          4·
          11 months ago

          I’m pretty sure it is there, you can export and import your subscriptions in the settings

        • can@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          11 months ago

          It’s only subscriptions, blocks, and user settings iirc. Your posts and comments don’t migrate for example.

          • WanderingVentra@lemm.eeEnglish
            3·
            11 months ago

            Still that’s not bad. Wish they could get saved posts to transfer, too. That would be useful.

          • Blaze@discuss.onlineEnglish
            2·
            11 months ago

            Importing posts and comments could cause a security risk if someone would to abuse that function.

            Even Mastodon doesn’t support it

            Mastodon currently does not support importing posts or media due to technical limitations, but your archive can be viewed by any software that understands how to parse Activity Streams 2.0 documents.

            https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/

    • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
      5·
      11 months ago

      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