One thing I’ve been thinking about lately is that if someone were to devise a way of doing a federated online review system that’s at least about as trustworthy as its centralized counterparts (I know, even those aren’t particularly great, but they are something), that could open up a lot of possibilities for even more federated alternatives to many centralized services, especially if combined with a secure way of doing payments.

For example, if a federated service like that matched buyers and sellers, that could be an alternative to Amazon marketplace, if it matched drivers with passengers, that could be an alternative to Uber/Lyft, etc. Of course, like I said, such a system would need to be at least as trustworthy as its centralized counterparts and would need some mechanisms to prevent against fraud, etc. A challenge for sure, but something I’m not convinced is impossible either.

I wanted to ask a question about future plans regarding data exports. Are there any plans about being able to export/import entire communities in addition to just user-level data imports/exports? I’m thinking about starting my own instance at some point in the future, but I’m also thinking about starting a few communities on here in the meantime and would like to possibly migrate those communities (with all their posts/comments included) to my own instance when I feel I can commit more time to managing an instance of my own. I could see a feature like that being very useful for anyone else who’s considering migrating communities between instances, so I thought I’d ask if there were any plans for that being discussed.

I’ve run into the same issue, but I wanted to make an additional suggestion. It might be better to change the error message from “3 per 3600 seconds” to something like “Please try again in X minutes”, I think that would be much more useful information for the user so they know how much longer they have to wait before creating another community.

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