I wonder how many people we're gonna lose over this, because I for one, spent time blocking what I wanted to, to curate my feed, and it took time. I already migrated once, I'm not gonna do it again because some people can't realize how toxic it's going to be when they federate with us.

I see a lot of people saying they'll just switch instances but haven't seen anyone say they'll just jump ship, am I alone ? Or maybe I'm missing an option that would allow me to transfer all my settings from one instance to another ?

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[–] AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 59 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I see a lot of people saying they'll just switch instances but haven't seen anyone say they'll just jump ship, am I alone ?

I have switched instances a lot. I don't like the idea of other people curating my feed.

[–] dandroid@dandroid.app 25 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I made my own instance for this reason.

[–] AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 8 months ago

I have considered it.

[–] lastjinn@lemmings.world 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Is it expensive? Considering doing it myself

[–] dandroid@dandroid.app 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

I had a spare computer that I installed Linux on a while back, but wasn't using it for much at the time. If set up like that, all you would pay for is the electricity, which is very low if you're only running Lemmy, probably only a couple of US dollars a month. You could probably run it on a raspberry pi, tbh.

Personally, I have solar panels that power my whole house. So it's free for me.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Personally, I have solar panels that power my whole house. So it's free for me.

The dream. I want to do this too when I buy my house, but living in northern Scandinavia makes it hard to run off solar during the winter.

[–] dandroid@dandroid.app 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I live relatively close to the equator (Texas), so it's actually better for me in the winter because I don't need to run the AC.

[–] cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Texas?! Only steers and queers come from Texas, Private Cowboy, and you don't look much like a steer to me, so that kinda narrows it down!

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Because the panels absorb/reflect the light? Or how does that work?

[–] dandroid@dandroid.app 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Not sure what you mean, but I just meant that because I use about a quarter of the electricity in the winter while still generating about 90% as much electricity, I end up selling a ton of electricity back to the grid, building up credits that I can use for cloudy days in the spring.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Ah okay, I get you. That's an excellent system.

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[–] lastjinn@lemmings.world 1 points 8 months ago

Thanks, I appreciate the insight 😊 you’re setup sounds very well thought out and I respect it 🍻

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[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 months ago (3 children)

What instance are you on? Voyager doesn’t even show me!

[–] AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There are probably better instances out there, but I'm on lemmy.dbzer0.com at the moment.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 months ago

Same! Maybe that’s why it doesn’t show me. It’s awesome.

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[–] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 58 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I don't think the world admins really care if users transfer away. That's just federation in action. Good stuff.

[–] cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 34 points 8 months ago

World admin playing 4d chess by showing the benefit of account migration in activitypub.

[–] NOSin@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago (4 children)

My original concern about "losing people" wasn't about transferring away, but rather about leaving the fediverse entirely over the concern of having to remake an account and having to curate up to my standards all over again. Which is now a moot point since I've been given solutions to migrate easily.

[–] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Oh gotcha. I'd suppose that if a person is that concerned with Threads, they're probably invested in the idea of Lemmy such that transferring to another instance is not out of the question. Someone who's not interested in putting in the effort to transfer probably doesn't feel strongly either way about Threads. That's just an assumption on my part, of course.

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[–] skeezix@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Where you gonna go? Back to reddit?

[–] NOSin@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

Since it's a moot point now, it's not a consideration anymore but ew no, that wasn't even an option in the first place.

[–] Enkers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Outside, maybe? lol

Edit: ~~Weird, my comment started at -1 karma. Is this thread being botted or something?~~ Oh I accidentally downvoted myself.....

[–] willya@lemmyf.uk 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Let’s get it back down there.

[–] Enkers@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Lol. I mentioned it not because I care about the karma, but because I've never seen any of my comments instantly start at -1 and it was mildly interesting.

I mean, I do care a little about my imaginary internet points, but that's not why I mentioned it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 39 points 8 months ago (4 children)

The new 0.19.x version allows you to export and import your basic settings like subscriptions and blocks. I personally haven't tested it though.

Otherwise, here on lemmy, activity from threads is unlikely to reach us or have too much of an impact as following lemmy communities won't work well on their end. This presumes that they'll be focused on implementing microblogging and mastodon compatibility, which are very fair presumptions IMO. Not saying that you shouldn't care ... just that there's probably much more time than you think. On top of that, Threads's implementation of federation seems to be going slowly.

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[–] willya@lemmyf.uk 30 points 8 months ago (8 children)

It’s possible in the latest version of Lemmy. World hasn’t upgraded yet. They are also already federated with threads.

[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

And as OP seems to be predicting, the world has clearly ended. 😅

(not that I don't have plenty issues with Meta, but the way lemmings talk about it only serves to further corporate agenda by essentially making all criticism seem idiotic by association)

[–] NOSin@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

To each their own reasons to care or not about being federated with Threads, it's not what this post is about.

My line about how toxic it's gonna be is my opinion and admittedly might not have its place here in the context, but I'm only a human making a post, wondering if I'm alone or if I'm missing an option for an easy migration.

[–] AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 months ago

I don't know of an "easy" option for migration.

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[–] sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net 20 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Threads federation really is a tempest in a teacup. People getting worked up over nothing.

Meta's failed twitter clone probably won't even federate with the threadiverse. Just look at this post. I see lemmy, I see kbin, I see lotide, I don't see mastodon, pleroma, friendica, and so on and so forth at all. I don't see minds (did you know that minds federates?), just a few programs of the same type.

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[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Or maybe I’m missing an option that would allow me to transfer all my settings from one instance to another ?

https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim

[–] NOSin@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Thanks !

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 12 points 8 months ago

Threads won't affect Lemmy that much. Threads users will basically have to deliberately interact with Lemmy posts or communities to show up.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 3 points 8 months ago

Can't you block threads.net as a user?

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[–] awwwyissss@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Glad I left World, I want absolutely nothing to do with Threads.

[–] FlihpFlorp@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

In my unbiased opinion you chose a great instance

[–] awwwyissss@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Lemmee has been great!

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[–] HelloHotel@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

I beleave there are tools to transfer account settings, personally, keep at least 2 lemmy accounts around (we had a DDOS scandle a while back), dont delete your world account just yet. lemm.ee is like what world is/was before filling up with users, else look at the lemmy server browser. Hope you end up somewhere happy, wherever you end up going.

[–] sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Incidentally, there's an 8 day old post on the topic that is showing in my instance and I checked the source it wasn't deleted when I went.

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[–] sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 1 points 8 months ago

What's the difference between switching instances and jumping ship?

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