this post was submitted on 19 May 2025
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Not sure if that has anything to do with gender.
Bluesky has always appeared as billionaire-vulnerable as Twitter was, and that's the biggest issue people have with it.
The feddit.org interpretation of that law is debated. Lemmy.world is hosted using a German company (Hetzner), and LW doesn't have such policy.
People would leave for another instance.
Add a link in your bio to your old profile, and vice-versa. Keep the same username and avatar. None of my current alts are from June 2023, but people still recognize me since then as I kept the same username and avatar.
https://lemmy.world/c/football is a good example of smooth transition to !football@lemm.ee: pinned post that pinged everyone who interacted recently in the community to make sure everyone is aware, and several announcements about the move. You don't have to completely start over.
A few other examples
It works as a bandaid solution, but a more seamless account migration would go a long way to make the fediverse as a whole better imo.
How often would the average user use this feature? Maybe a few times during instance hopping at first, and then that would be it.
I'm more thinking about users on small instances that are being abandoned or perhaps fall victim to some defederation drama (or similar) over time.
Indeed, but the main difference between a centralized platform and a decentralized one is how easy it is for users to change communities.
If Reddit bans a subreddit, users cannot create any alternative subreddit on the whole platform.
In the feddit.org case, other users have set up !europe@lemmy.dbzer0.com , which everyone can use instead of !europe@feddit.org without having to create a new account.
See above.
You could create a Fediverse-critic community here, and establish rules who would shape the community that way. There was a !linuxsucks@lemmy.world community that was active for a while.
People have seen Reddit and Twitter enshittify because of their centralised model. A decentralized model is considered a solution to this.
I think Bluesky would get less criticism here if they were honest about the fact that they aren't really going for a decentralized model instead of pretending they are, but then it costs millions to run an independent node would require a whole company
https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/
You mention the costs of running a relay as mentioned in the Christine Lemmer-Webber piece, but since that piece was written, Bluesky made a significant update to how relays work, making them much cheaper to operate. Bryan Newbold made a blog post about how he managed to run a relay for $34 a month. Dozens of people run such full-network relays now! Christine Lemmer-Webber herself even first assumed those were not pulling the full network, but later corrected herself!
It remains to be seen how well all of that will scale if the network continues to grow, but can we please please move away from completely exaggerated claims like "it costs millions to run an independent node"?
Oh, very interesting!
Seems like the blog post and Christine's updates are quite new, maybe they deserve their own post here in the community?