• scubbo@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    Ironic that “accounts will be portable - if you don’t like the behaviour, practices, or community of one instance, you can take your data and leave” was touted as the big selling point of the Fediverse.

    • AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      On more mature projects this is indeed the case. Lemmy only started federating like two years ago and is very much still in beta. We’ll get there eventually and it is already in the dev queue, but keep in mind that there are only two people working on the entire codebase full time. Don’t expect a Reddit level of fit and finish, but at the same time you also need not expect a Reddit level of corporate, shareholder-over-user antics.

      Finally, since Lemmy is open source, if you really need a feature right now, you can always submit a pull request!

      • scubbo@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        We’ll get there eventually

        Get where? You appear to be responding from a technical perspective to a complaint about process. The complaint isn’t (primarily) that it is technically hard to migrate data, but that moderators themselves are putting deliberate barriers in the way of migration. It doesn’t matter how fast your car is if there are roadblocks every five meters.