You have to do the former, regardless of if you do the latter.

The issue I have is that it isn't really compatible with the idea of having a big social media network. If they wanted to make a "safe space", well, doing that via Lemmy -- or any federated platform -- wasn't the right choice.

It'd be like trying to make a "safe space" on Reddit. The idea just doesn't make sense. It's too inherently open, too public, for that to be viable.

Oh, you're not wrong, I'm sure it'll all shake out relatively quickly.

I'm aware of what tankie means. I'm a Marxist myself.

I stand by my analysis. Tankie is not a synonym for communist, and to hate tankies is not to hate all communists.

Edit: "Tankie" isn't even a synonym for "Marxist-Leninist", for crying out loud. (Though that is conceptually closer.)

I don't think tinwhiskers has problems with communists. If they had problem with communists, they would surely have said "communists".

They said "tankies". I am more inclined to suggest their issue is with tankies, not communists.

with the mastodon stuff they already have a way to download your content and be able to reupload it on another instance (migrating).

I don't think you can reupload content, at least not yet. I recently migrated off of home.social, and there wasn't any way to upload the resulting data export at my new Mastodon instance.

It actually kinda does ruin something. Beehaw was setting itself up to have the defacto communities for a bunch of topics.

Urgh, but that's gross and power-trippy.

This only solves the problem for you. It doesn't solve the problem for the community, nor does it scale well (if everyone does it, then you're just gonna repeat the same dance over and over).

Well, we can't do that now.

Hot take — maybe it was Beehaw that was getting too big too quickly, then?

They decided to take on an enormous workload, running so many communities, communities that then became the defacto standard communities for those topics.

Excuse me but the only people we eat around here are the rich.

That seemed to be a situation where the head mod was going against the wishes of the other mods. Not sure how I feel about it, personally, but it's not quite as simple as "Spez made the subreddit open against the wishes of everyone involved".

From what I've seen so far, that doesn't seem to be a solved thing yet.

Presumably we'll see that happen here as well, just potentially at a higher level, with instances rather than just communities.

I recently had to migrate my Mastodon account (home.social shut down, for... frankly frustrating reasons, but whatever). It was a pretty painful process, and none of my old toots exist as a result.

Hopefully we can figure this out with Lemmy, and in doing so, make migration painless enough that it can even be a common occurrence without a loss of data and content. Let's not forget that one of the great things about Reddit is (was, I guess) that old threads still contain relevant information from passionate enthusiasts.

It's arguably a sign that there is need for refinement, but don't throw the baby out with the bathwater, jeez. Every platforms' early days were much like this. Reddit was pretty shit at first. YouTube was pretty shit at first. And so on.

Nothing comes to life without teething pains. We're literally on day two for most users, it's bizarre to be saying anything about Lemmy's future this early.

The IPO is everything, I'm sure. So much of any valuation is entirely speculative, but the higher that speculation is the more money the stakeholders will be able to get out when they sell.

Presumably spez is a major stakeholder, and if so, a short-term inflation of particular usage metrics would directly mean more dollars in his pocket when they sell. It doesn't matter if it then all falls over in a heap, if the monetisation isn't actually viable; he (and others) have already cashed out, and the folks who bought into the valuation are left holding the bag.

Now THAT'S an ion blast from the past.

Yeah... There's better ways to communicate that, guys.

Honestly, that Microsoft has to touch on that at all shows how badly Bethesda has managed their reputation over the decades.