I don’t fully understand how lemmy works completely yet. But for example I made an account at Division by zero and subscribe here to post. Is it not just a more inconvenient version of making a reddit account and being able to post practically anywhere?

Also what’s the difference between making an account at one instant and just making one centralized account for the social media?

  • Karu 🐲English
    4•11 months ago

    Now imagine that you had some issue with the administration of your Lemmy instance. You still have both options above, plus a third one: migrate to another instance.

    In theory, yes.

    In practice, I strongly disagree with a number of decisions by the admins of my instance, but I’d rather keep ownership of the comments I have posted and would like to be notified if anyone ever replies to them in the future. Since I care more about the latter than the former, I’m not planning on moving instances at the moment. Guess I could create another account elsewhere, but I’d still have to check out the account on the old instance every once in a while. Plus I’d like to have a unified posting history. It sucks, and the technology is not quite there yet, but I hope true migrations between instances become a thing sooner than later. As far as I have been told, true migrations aren’t yet a thing even on Mastodon.

    • LvxferreEnglish
      4•11 months ago

      I hope that content migration (what you called “true” migration) becomes a thing in the future.

      That said, the burden of checking your old account once in a blue moon is by no means that big. And if someone replied to you months after you posted something, odds are that the person can wait a bit before you reply them. You can also link your old account in your new one’s profile and vice versa, for more pressing matters.

      So while I get your point (and it is a fair point - the migration isn’t completely costless), it’s still an option that you wouldn’t see in Reddit.