Notices by Nigel (n@the.skux.life)

Very true. The issue we had was that with an entire community moving all at once, they did not try and fit in with the current server vibe, they just moved in and continued their same way of interacting as all their buddies were there as well. Nothing changed for them except the web address, basically.

I would somewhat compare it to someone moving countries to one with a different culture, and then staying in their own little community and continuing their same ways as back home, with no effort to interact with the existing residents and find out about the local culture and ways of life of the area they inhabit.

Very much this. Sadly.

I decided to blocka server that I was previously involved with running yesterday.

The twitter migrants made it unbrearable to log in, so a few months back we got new mods from the userbase and stepped away. I recently spun up this instance and saw and replied to a post from a user there, and all I got was smug replies about how they are right and their buddy replying to them belittling me as if i couldnt see his posts... like wtf man. Be an adult. Thats some childish bullshit. So I blocked and moved on. I had futher info and detail but its not worth my time to interact with such arrogance and entitlement.

I am sad that they took over our server and made it something else, but it was funded by users donations, so we decided to give it to the users to use and moved away ourselves.

Sorry, long way to say... yeah. Very much so.

No I think that's exactly as it should be. I see the micro blog platforms like here as somewhat ephemeral and don't put any weight on posts staying around, more so the people and interactions.

I think you're right with that view, personally.

I have thoughts on migration, if I may add to your discusssion;

Firefish has post migration, and it is terrible as it spams every post to the timeline as it imports them to the new instance and reposts them. It is not a good implementation from that aspect.

I personally think they should not be migrated anyway. My feeling is that your posts being able to be downloaded and saved is enough, as realistically most will never be looked at again. Most of my accounts auto delete posts after a couple of months, so I don't have cruft hanging around behind me.

The exception is my blog which I spun up on WordPress and it federates as well. Blog posts stay, as that is why they are there.

Quite liking the @wedistribute podcast @deadsuperhero@mozilla.social, I look forward to more ❤️

Haha, excellent 😆

yay #snac! @me :cat_yo-dap: