Formerly /u/Zalack on Reddit.

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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Can they though? As far as I can tell there’s no affordance for migrating accounts, so if you want to move instances, you are forced to abandon your account.

    Maybe not a huge deal right at this instant, but each day that goes by, users more posts and comments accumulate that makes losing an account suck.

    Which means the is (unintended) pressure to stay put baked into the technical design. If letting users move freely between servers is a design goal, there need to be technical affordances for it.


  • Yeah, I’m sure it doesn’t feel great, but I didn’t get the sense that they were trying to personally attack everyone on the relevant servers, but more of a “we’re only four people, did not expect our instance to become a “default” community, and are completely underwater from a moderation perspective. We need to pull a rip cord to get this under control”