Why?

Reason #1: Inciting Incident

As some of you may be aware, the country of Mali is apparently beginning to talk back .ml top level domains. This has already affected other communities and has the potential to affect lemmy.ml (See here for context). This is preemptive act to ensure that what we have build so far is not destroyed.

Reason #2: This community does not align well with lemmy.ml

Lemmy.ml is a FOSS focused instance. At the time of the creation of lemmy.ml/c/ps5, lemmy.world was not even on the map. I established this community very early before the reddit migration and wanted to establish it on what I believed at the time was the "flagship" instance for better discoverability. A lot has changed since then, and I believe this change will be in the best interest of this community moving forward. The Admins on lemmy.world have been wonderful and responsive, and I trust lemmy.world will be a great home for us.

Other people have personal issues with the lemmy.ml instance and its admins, so while this move will help others who dislike lemmy.ml confidently join our community, it is not the primary reason for migrating.

What will happen to lemmy.ml/c/ps5?

Great question. I would love to hear back from other community members on this subject. My initial plans are to pin this thread indefinitely at the top and cease posting news to this community. I will post weekly cross-posts in this community to the discussion threads on lemmy.world/c/ps5, which will have the comments locked, and a comment recommending others subscribe to the new community.

For other users posting here, I will still allow posts, but I will comment in each thread with a reminder to post to the new community. I do not intend to lock these posts at this point in time, however if substantial discussion is happening in these threads I may lock them down.

Please let me know your thoughts below!

-Cosmic

P.S. Special thanks to @Hurts@lemmy.world for transfering me the new community!

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[–] whatsarefoogee@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As opposed to moving to a decentralized instance?

Every lemmy instance is centralized, it's not a bloody blockchain.

[–] remkit@lemmy.kya.moe 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No, as opposed to moving a specialised instance, like how Android moves to lemdro.id. All of the centralisation lemmy.world and lemmy.ml is beginning to have an effect, and you guys are just at the starting line of finding out.

Decentralisation has nothing to do with blockchains. Hell, even BitTorrent was decentralised before the term blockchain even came to be.

[–] Derproid@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So your suggestion is to centralize all gaming communities onto a single lemmy instance? That sounds like a great alternative. Besides, the real decentralization would be having a ps5 community on lemmy.ml, lemmy.world, and lemdro.id. That way if any one instance is shut down there are still two more that users can migrate to.

[–] remkit@lemmy.kya.moe 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, again, my suggestion is not to centralise anything.

If anything, I would have preferred if ps5!ps5@lemmy.world had moved to lemm.ee instead of lemmy.world. As it stands, lemmy.world is getting too big for a "federated" Lemmyverse, why should we continue to support federation on Lemmy, if lemmy.world becomes the new Reddit?

[–] CascadianBeam@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It’s good to have options. You can’t make people do what you want them to do. Having options means being able to choose one central instance. People are going to be people collectively and sometimes you gotta follow the desire path.

[–] AdlachGyfiawn@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Are you going to pay for the hosting and do the work to keep the instance up to date?