That issue is not being solved if nobody even realize it’s there or is just being swept under the rug until it comes up with the next wave!?
To me the biggest factor is some of the LW staff “name squatting” a topic rather than agreeing to redirect to active communities on the same topic.
All of us who are already on board can leave for a cutting edge instance. I think it’s a good thing that they want to keep world stable and take their time.
Most of the users are unaware of most of the features. I met a year-long user the other day who had no idea they could import / export their settings. Also, that release has been out for 2 months and a half, 54% of the instances use it (fedidb.org/software/lemmy/versions ), including 7 other instances of the top 10 (fedidb.org/software/lemmy )
What, like automatically transfer subscribers (and hopefully posts at some point) etc? I thought everybody needs to be on board and then do it manually?
No, to be honest having a look at the code I’m not sure we would ever get such a feature. Mastodon does not allow this kind of imports, and they are much more stable and mature than Lemmy. Maybe in 5, 10 years? So in the meantime, we can do it ourselves the way I described above.
As they should be, not just delete some community because some user claimed it was dead and unmoderated (like i saw you do recently with a community which had an active user as admin ;). If they just deleted those communities i guess you’d go at them again with the power trip accusations.
That’s interesting you mention this, because
I never asked anyone to delete any community
I asked to get inactive communities locked, which the LW admins agreed with
If the mod (and not the admin) of that community was that active, they should have unpinned the post saying “looking for mods” as the first post you see you their community (as we are talking, it’s still there)
In the end, even that mod agreed to lock that community up and redirect to another one ( feddit.org/post/2324020 )
I am never in favor of deleting any community, that’s detrimental to the platform.
To add to that topic, I try to get people on Reddit to switch to Lemmy a lot (they are probably the biggest potential users we can get), and the first question they ask is “why are those communities empty? It looks like a ghost town”.
Locking them down, and redirecting to active communities makes Lemmy look more appealing as a whole.
power trip accusations
Power tripping definitely happens, for a lot of mod / admins. It’s sad, but sometimes it’s the main driver to a healthier community / instance, as the meme stated above.