I thought if I create an account everywhere in the lemmy universe, it’s valid for every lemmy page (like lemmy.world or lemmy.ml).
Apparently this is wrong. Do I have to create an account there again if I want to post there?
I thought if I create an account everywhere in the lemmy universe, it’s valid for every lemmy page (like lemmy.world or lemmy.ml).
Apparently this is wrong. Do I have to create an account there again if I want to post there?
We badly need federated identify and or at least something portable/nomadic.
If I recall there was talk of migration being a thing in the next major version.
Why?
The federated concept as-is has been very hard for some of my friends to grasp.
The biggest issue is the risk that your instance may die. From what I have seen, most instances have given users some warning. But yeah, a few have just disappeared, leaving their users orphaned with no history. This keeps users feeling they need to stay on the biggest instances, putting pressure on them.
A method for allowing users to export/backup their ID and even import it to another instance would be ideal. We (admins) need a way to ensure it is the same user, a unique identifier. Otherwise, you’ll get bots importing massive comment histories onto their accounts and faking legitimacy.
I also see this as a way for mods to maintain a ban, so a user doesn’t just migrate their account to another username/instance and continue to spam or abuse readers.
You could use the Mastodon-Model, where you can download your data and point the users to the new instance, so the followers migrate automatically