There's a significant amount of discussion surrounding the issue of lemmy.ml servers reaching their maximum capacity. As someone who already has an account on lemmy.ml, what actions can you take? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by Heimchen@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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?

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[-] pootedesu@latte.isnot.coffee 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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.

[-] RadDevon@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

I would add to this community migration, which will be important as instances start going offline. User migration is great, but, whereas on Mastodon, the content lives on the user, I believe here it lives on the community.

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