Is there a way to move myself as an user from one server to another?
this post was submitted on 25 Mar 2025
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You can export your settings, community follows etc and import them in another instance. Moving your existing posts and comments doesnt work well with federation.
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Do you guys have plans to add a spoiler tag? I post a lot of memes about tv shows that I watch, but the users complain that the post isn't blurred.
I know I can use the NSFW tag, but this gives the wrong idea and limits the post visibility (since people can hide nsfw posts).
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From my perspective we need better Mod and Admin tools. Forum software has a lot of them but Lemmy is lacking in this department.
The key important one is being able to move posts to different communities. You'll often get reports of posts not being appropriate for a community but there is no way to actually move it.
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What is your opinion on Bluesky being more popular than Mastodone because it is easier for most?
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Will Lemmy can become easy like Bluesky? Are there plans like that?
thanks
edit: lemmy dev replies only please
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Some Lemmy clients offer the option to auto-hide posts and comments which contain certain keywords of the choice of the user. Are there any plans to implement this feature into the stock Lemmy experience?
I know it is possible to do some hacky stuff with UblockOrigin to do the same, but that is not something most know about and are willing to do.
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When a instance goes permanently offline, does the content vanish? If so, could there possibly be a way for another instance to "adopt" the content on their instance so those posts aren't lost to time?
I think it might help reassure people to pick smaller instances.
It can't be transferred, but the posts / content will never vanish. Most importantly, it will stay searcheable.
The best option is just to create another community on a living server, and link to the local version of a dead one in a sidebar.
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On the server perspective, I have a question, what are your thoughts for horizontal scaling on the database? This seems to be the biggest limitation and requiring higher spec hardware to scale especially for the bigger instances.
My tiny instance for example I give over 20GB of RAM just to postgres to make it perform efficient enough.
The way to solve the database problems isn't to keep throwing more and more money at powerful servers and scaling. Its to fix it at the root: lemmy's unoptimized database.
@dullbananas has done invaluable work in making our DB better (and all of these will be in 1.0), but I'm convinced that if we had even 1-2 more Postgresql experts do a pass over the DB, and ideally one full-time expert, all of these problems could be solved.
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Thanks a lot for the work you do! How do you get by with such a limited amount of funds? How sustainable is your financial situation if donations don't pick up considerably?
I live in Spain, the cost of living here is much cheaper than Germany or especially the United States. I also dont need luxuries, and have enough money saved to last for a while. If donations are not enough I could always work for some company, and spend less time on Lemmy.
Not really a question, but something to think about is being more strict about backwards compatibility so that people don't get burnt out on having stuff break. Coming from this post by the Tesseract dev, who did not like the breaking changes to the v3 API in 1.0: https://dubvee.org/post/2904152
To formulate that into an actual question, do you think the changes are still worth it and you'd make the same decision to break backwards compatibility?
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