• Draconic NEO
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    16 days ago

    That’ll be pretty useless if most of their communities are lemmy.world communities, it’s not a good idea to divorce an instance but still participate and be dependent on their communities, unless you’re willing to obfuscate your activity with alts that aren’t connected to you. Otherwise they’ll just ban you from those communities anyway.

    Also be warned, it doesn’t take your post history, or even saved posts with you, if you want saved posts you have to bring them manually, and you can’t take post history with you at all.

    • Blaze (he/him)
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      86 days ago

      Also be warned, it doesn’t take your post history, or even saved posts with you, if you want saved posts you have to bring them manually, and you can’t take post history with you at all

      Probably not a big deal for the majority of people. Just link your old profile in your bio if you want to keep your “reputation”

      • @[email protected]
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        14 days ago

        Also a “reputation” on the internet is worth the paper it’s printed on.

        Which is to say no one prints these things.

        • Blaze (he/him)
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          14 days ago

          Reputation can just be “recognized”. I remember probably between 25 and 50 usernames here, most of them for good reasons, it’s good to be able to recognize them even if they move instances

      • Draconic NEO
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        15 days ago

        Saved posts will probably be a bigger deal since people saved them for a reason.

        Also I did mention bringing history with you because spiteful admins can wash your history away when you can’t bring it with you. If you could claim and reassigned ownership of the federated posts and comments they’d only be able to wash it away from the communities they moderate.

        • Blaze (he/him)
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          15 days ago

          Saved posts will probably be a bigger deal since people saved them for a reason.

          How many saved posts do people have on average?

          • Draconic NEO
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            14 days ago

            I’m not sure, I know that on this account I have over 100. On Lemmy.world I probably have way more. I have 40 on pawb.social. I have a lot here though. Much less on the others since I use those accounts less but I still have a handful on all the others.