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Why can't magazines/communities aggregate content from other instances? (kbin.social)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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When I look at https://lemmy.ml/c/startrek vs https://kbin.social/m/startrek I see two entirely different lists of posts. Why? It's the same topic, just on different instances. How can we have communities about topics without having them siloed into their own instance-based communities? Is this just related to that 0.18 issue with Lemmy/kbin not talking nicely, or is this how the Fediverse is?

Is it (at least theoretically) possible for me to post an article on https://kbin.social/m/startrek and have it automatically show up on https://lemmy.ml/c/startrek, or are they always going to be two separate communities?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (12 children)

I can make a new website with a forum if Reddit goes "bad," too, but that doesn't change anything. All of the content and the users would be on that one specific instance. That's what people care about: content and a critical mass of users. There's a reason people are still using Reddit, and it's not because Reddit has wonderful ownership that cares about the users; it's because that's where the most people currently are. Migrating people from one site to another isn't easy, and that would be the exact same situation if a super popular instance were to go "bad," whether or not it's part of the Fediverse.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Except on the fediverse all the old content would still be accessible, and your new site would be connected to the existing network.

Most users would just have to sub to a new community, and thats that. Only users on the instance that went down would have to make entirely new accounts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wait, how? I thought the content stayed with the old instance?

If people migrate to [email protected], and use it for 10 years, then they go bad, I can start a new instance and pull in all 10 years of content from the other instance?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

No. But all the instances on which users were subbed, would retain archival data.

Moving communities between instances may become possible, though.

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