Subscription based teeth?

now that IPv6 has been adopted globally.

Now that is a quality joke

I think a better, but still not perfect, way to define it would be “This person wants to do X, but can’t support him/her/itself doing it.”

Of course, if you are already rich it doesn’t matter and then it is a bad metric (one of the reasons it isn’t perfect.) However, I think it is a better way to define it. Someone writing a few books as a hobby and then stops are not a failed writer, but someone that wants to be a writer but just can’t support it is.

Basically I think the intent matters, but that is impossible to measure (and people lie about it). So being able to do it as a profession is an ok metric.

You can export the list of subscribed communities in 0.19.

If you do that every now and then a shutdown would still hurt. As all the communities hosted on it would be lost but at least you can import your subscription list on another server.

GPG signatures are set by the sender to prove the message is originating from the sender and is unchanged. It’s signed with the private key and verified with the public key.

A bit of a nitpick, but important to keep in mind. The GPG signatures shows that someone that has access to the private key sent that message. If I somehow gets a hold of a copy of your key, I can send messages that seems to originate from you.

I seem to be at around 100 already, though some of those are probably already dead or moved to another instance.

But the easier it is to migrate the more people will do it, if that is the goal.

That is great, but it should ideally be built into Lemmy itself and not an external script that may or may not steal your credentials.

Just two buttons in the settings “Export User Data” and “Import User Data” would be enough.

If they implement import & export subscriptions it would help a lot to move

Well, we have detected those that have been detected. It is possible that there are some sleeper repos no one has detected yet.

But it is not really a problem or something bad with FOSS, just have to be careful when including and updating libraries, which you always have to be!