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It just seems like you are placing a LOT of trust in community mods to make decisions on behalf of the community for its own well-being rather than to feed their egotistical desires. However, I am recalling the semi-recent controversy of the 196 mods attempting to forcibly move their community from blahaj to Lemmy.world and people got insanely angry and started a whole new 196 (again, which is how 196 had moved to blahaj in the first place).
A lot of people came here from Reddit to get away from such practices, not subject themselves to an army of little fiefdoms within which each mod is in control of their own community. If Reddit was an empire, then your model sounds like a peaceful, hopefully loving (sometimes, but... perhaps not always?) kingdom, whereas I am talking about a democracy where the individual people who submit their content get to control their individual futures, even if their past submissions are carved in stone and their own control over it mostly released.
It's something to think about anyway!:-)
To be fair, community mods have any number of ways to behave badly as stewards even without such a system. I also don't see what is immediately potentially corrupt about moving instance in a way that would inherently annoy the audience.
Well, I mean there we are. I suppose in that event someone else would co-opt them entirely.
But supposing community migration did exist then, the blahaj administrators would have to give consent - and if the community clearly rejected it, I doubt they would give it.
To be fair, the current piefed migration system relies on the consent of the new instance. You can't just do it unilaterally. And I assume a piefed to piefed community transfer would require the consent of the old instance too, so you can't just do it uniltaterally. And in a general sense we are already all at the mercy of corrupt instance owners as it is.
I mean as I said, the ideal migration system would leave public records of movement - and people would post knowing full well that all communities are modular and could be moved.
Read more about the attempted forcible migration attempt, against the wishes of the community members, here:
Let's just move a whole community to a new instance without asking!
If the 196 mods had used the migration feature, thé output would have been the same: other would have created !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone and most of the people would have moved there
Absolutely. That example shows how mods do not always act with full concern for the community members, and much turmoil and drama ensued as a result of that mismatched set of expectations between the "rulers" and the ruled, consent by the governed and all of that.
Maybe there is a friendlier way - like the mods move and a notice offered to those still visiting the old, without necessarily blocking the old... which as I say this I realize can't happen, bc an unmoderated community would instantly become a source of literal spam sent out to the entire Threadiverse, as sadly happened to Kbin.social.