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How do I move my account to another instance? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago by FrostyDog@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I'm still quite lost when it comes to the fediverse. I created an account on the main instance, however as I understood more how it works, it seems like certain instances that interest me are "defederated" from this instance, and vice versa. So now I want to move my account to be able to see those instances, however I want to keep my follows and my posts I have on this instance. Is that possible? I read that fediverse is resistant to censorship in this regard, so there must be something I'm missing here.

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[–] FlihpFlorp@lemm.ee 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

Like others have said you really can’t move, just make a new account

I’ve been on lemm.ee this whole time and I like it. I definitely recommend it if defederation is an issue for you since sunasaurus stance on defederation is it is the big red button and users should have the choice of making a blocklist (unless it’s stuff like illegal content thats defederated). You can even keep your username if it’s not taken on that instance and the beauty of the fediverse is you can move instances and create account as many times as you want

As for having a main instance. No such thing. This picture really helped me understand how federation works as the email anology people use didn’t really help me.

Anyways lemmy.world is just another instance, it just happens to the be the biggest. Lemmy.world ,.ee, .ml, whatever lemmy instance you can think of are completely independent. Think of them as separate websites if that helps. But due to the fediverse protocol they can all share content back and forth, it really is crazy when you think about it

But let me grab our welcome to lemm.ee to post if you wanna see if we’re a good fit for you, if not, happy instance hunting

Edit: Here’s the Welcome to lemm.ee post

[–] FrostyDog@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Lemm.ee definitely looks interesting, however when I tried to sign up I just got some message that "Toastify is awesome". I'm assuming it's some sarcasm? Because when I refreshed the page all I got is error 503.

I'll give it another shot tomorrow. Thanks for sharing!

[–] xonigo@lemm.ee 5 points 3 days ago

Lemm.ee had some scheduled downtime a few hours ago when it was upgrading to the latest Lemmy software version. You might have ran into that when you attempted to sign up

[–] FlihpFlorp@lemm.ee 3 points 3 days ago

Unless I’m misreading your comment I was able to pull up the Sign in page just fine. Or are you getting the error after you put in your credentials