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?

    • xhci@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      The federated concept as-is has been very hard for some of my friends to grasp.

    • Nath@aussie.zone
      1·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • albert180@feddit.de
        2·
        1 year ago

        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