Can i move my account to some other server?
From what I’ve heard I don’t think so, but I may be wrong, or someone might build a tool in the future
From what I’ve heard, at the current time no. But should be happening in the near future.
You can also use a mastodon account to sign up.
i started on lemmy.ml but it’s been down for a day or so, cant access anything I did over there, so I started over here too. I’m probably wrong but it seems, from what others have said (over the last few days I’ve been trying out this federation platform), an account’s activity/comments are tied to the sql database on the server - so if the server goes poof, so does your account.
Domains (and their lords) owning communities and user accounts speaks indeed some thing about the mindset of the system’s makers, donnit?
Could/should there be a system to “back up/mirror/migrate” your account to another instance?
Perhaps we could agree on a main instance to back up every account?
If this were to be made, it should maybe have an opt-out? Idk, but it should definitely not be an opt-in thing that misses a lot off clueless new users.
I don’t have my email with a random guy’s server. A lot of new users here do.
But yeah, if my email went down and I had no backup, it would fucking suck. If it was a concern, I’d be wanting a backup system.
No, you can’t. Your instance will go down, but all your posts and comments will still live in read-only mode on the instances they been federated before.
In mastodon (another activity pub service) you can export your account with subscriptions, but not the posts. So, if it’ll happen, you gotta start from scratch.
