Fediverse

Right now I have a Beehaw account, and a kbin account. I decided to go with kbin overall, but if kbin screwed the pooch tomorrow I technically have a back up to continue on largely unfettered.

That being said I'm 40 and I don't have time for this shit anymore. I'm at the point now where the moment the next medium-level-annoyance occurs I'm just gonna start deleting bookmarks and moving on with my life. Ain't got no time for this shit. I can get my news in a million other places without Reddit, Lemmy, Beehaw, Jigsaw, Yeehaw or what-the-fuck-ever-else lol.

I'm hoping that the ability to migrate accounts across instances will become a thing in the future, for situations like that. It would help reduce the pressure to stay in one place because you've put so much time into it, which is one of the most unhealthy traits of social media imo.

I already have three different accounts - and at some point (when things stabilize) I'll most likely migrate my account to one of them, because I prefer a bit smaller "local".

I'm hoping import/export tools will come along soon(ish) - I don't want to add all my communities manually

If it gets defederated by instances I care about, then i'd migrate my account.

One of the things the Lemmy devs community need to work on is migration tools. Mastodon, for instance, has tools to migrate your account to another instance that would carry your followings and such. I'd expect something that at least takes the communities/magazines I'm subscribed to with me.

As I do not use kbin, i don't know if it has similar tools, but in any case, my response is the same.

Edit: there is a difference in migrating a microblogging account and migrating a threadiverse account that i'd care about, for instance. In microblogging, past posts do not care as much, it's a more ephimeral thing -I have autodelete my posts set on, for example-. On the other hand in the threadiverse, there may be more timeless meaningful posts that I may care about not being lost and want to take with me if I migrate instances. Because of that, I think migration in the threadiverse is more complex and i'd like the migration tools to reflect that too.

I currently have accounts with four different instances, and I expect to have more. I jump between them as the mood hits me.

I presume that if one of them is defederated by another instance, that will just figure in to whether or not I'm in the mood to spend time there at a given moment. And if one of them turns toxic enough to drive me away... it'll drive me away.

I don't think any of it's worth worrying about. The whole fediverse thing seems to be very fluid, and I count that as a good thing.

i used to be on beehaw, they federated from lemmy.world, so i moved to kbin

I'd probably just start fresh w/o any porting.

I think that it's not a priority at the moment but if/when there are clearer bad faith actors in charge of a popular instance, I think devs will tackle it.

Beehaw defederated from from a couple instances so I left and came to kbin.

Oh instant leave and make a new account for me. The freedom is the entire point to me. Any instance that thinks they are above that ain't for me.

What exactly is an instance? Is it an EC2, a container somewhere, something else?

i'll switch to another instance, although it'd be nice to be able to transfer my kbin account to other kbin instances just in case

edit: also y'know, to preserve stuff like posts or comments since that could be quite important

If your instance gets universally defederated, yes I would suggest to change instances as soon at possible because that level of defederation only happens in extreme circumstances.

For now, you'll need to create another account on a different server form scratch as migration is not possible yet in in kbin and lemmy.