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What the Wandermeister over here said.

Object storage generally is much cheaper than vm disk space (I got 1TB for $5/month at vultr). And the sooner you do it, the better - the migration process took 3 hours for me yesterday, transferring just over 102k files (34 GB).

Hole in their pocket?

Use rsync to get the bulk of the data over (even if it's mid write) one or more times, then stop the stack on the origin server, and run rsync again. It should be much faster.

Thanks, I wasn't aware of that tool. Thanks for all the stuff that you do!

In my experience people only follow people to new networks when enough other people have made the switch. Try convincing people to use signal or telegram instead of WhatsApp, for example.

To move off twitter, one person will make the journey, find out that most of the people they want to follow (or be followed by) aren't on mastodon, and go back to twitter.

People don't actively seek out content on Lemmy (yet). But if they do check it out, they will be more likely to stick around if they feel they don't miss out on stuff they were used to on reddit.

For some things like text posts and questions, comments / discussion is great. For other, more content based posts like photos, game discounts or adult content, I don't mind one bit not seeing other people's comments.

Lemmit is meant to become obsolete in the long run, but it can help prime the network with content that makes it easier to switch over.

Actually I'd say it's the other way around. It's hard to switch a social network, since it only makes sense to switch if the people you want to follow are also on the new network (The Network Effect).

However, for sites like reddit, it matters less. I don't care who posts the cute kittens in [email protected], as long as they're there. Much lower barrier to join. Once a network is primed with good content, the people will come.

More inline with OP: it also helps that there was already a huge exodus from twitter to mastodon a few years back, so they've got a bit of a head start.

Might be an idea to make your lemmy home on an instance that doesn't allow down votes (those exist). People on other servers might still downvote it, but you won't notice.

In fact, I think I'll go do that myself.

1. I started out with the og Lemmy.ml.
2. Then created my own instance/bot Lemmit.
3. Thought Lemmy.ml was to slow/unstable, so created an account on Lemmy.world
4. Gotta have a separate account for grown up stuff, so signed up on LemmyNSFW.com
5. Gee... Lemmy.world is kinda slow/unstable... Better sign up on lemm.ee...

I'll probably retire the lemmy.ml and world accounts though.

🤔 The server spits out html when it cannot reach the backend. So one could argue it's a configuration issue because the admin didn't provide enough capacity / didn't set up a proper generic json error for backend failures.

FWIW, Liftoff doesn't handle these super gracefully either.

At any rate I think it's kinda awesome that we get to witness these kinds of infancy problems.

How to you feel about "us youngsters" barging in here and bringing server performance to its knees? (sorry!)

Is that a roundabout way of saying you're getting a divorce? Does she know?

Side note: even after deferating, these activities still show up in activity table. (I'm on version 0.17.4).