I think best case scenario, you have themed instances based around art, tech, politics, news, gaming, food, etc, and the largest communities are hosted there. Then you have “catch all” instances like lemm.ee which federate with everything, there can be as many of these instances as needed as the user base grows. These types of instances should be where the bulk of the new user accounts go, assuming just an average user looking for a /all replacement. Curated instances like beehaw allow for a more fine-tuned experience, but should still function basically as a catch all and not as “hosting the content” instance.

However I understand that building up to that is damn near impossible with the current infrastructure. We would basically need a means to migrate an entire community to a new instance, while simultaneously updating everybody’s subscriptions to reflect the new home of the community.

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I thought lemmy.world was a "catch all" and it was, for a bit. We really do need better migration tools, then you could just leave any fools.

[–] mayo@lemmy.today 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Couple tools in case anyone is interested:

python https://github.com/wescode/lemmy_migrate

rust https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim/tree/main

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

User or community move?

[–] mayo@lemmy.today 1 points 2 years ago

Oh just community. User would be ideal, I hope that is widely advertised when it's available