The Lemmy.world hack made a good opportunity to explore other instances out there. Found one based in my area. Back in action!

  • AzuleBlade@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I almost made the rash, uninformed decision to close up shop on lemmy.world and move my community to another instance. Luckily I did some further reading, and yeah, unless whatever other instance I jumped ship to was also patched I would have just been wasting my time since this is a vulnerability in the Lemmy code and affects all instances until the admins apply a bandaid/the code is fixed.

    • Railison
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      1 year ago

      It’s possible to move communities to other instances? How’s it work?

      • AzuleBlade@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Not really, unfortunately. You’d have to create the community on a different instance, make a sticky post in the original community redirecting them to the new community, and then lock the community to prevent new posts. If you don’t have a lot of content in the original community, or don’t care about keeping it, you could delete the community after a week or two once people have subscribed to the new community to prevent confusion.

      • T156@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        It isn’t possible just yet, although there are issues on Lemmy’s github for it.