I’m just curious, since I tend to get attached to my accounts but I also like having access to all information so I don’t want to use a defederated instance. If, say, kbin got overrun by bad actors and was defederated by everyone else, is the only option to jump ship? Unfortunately I don’t have the capability to selfhost or I would to avoid such problems.
What are your contingency plans if such a thing occurs?
I’m hoping that the ability to migrate accounts across instances will become a thing in the future, for situations like that. It would help reduce the pressure to stay in one place because you’ve put so much time into it, which is one of the most unhealthy traits of social media imo.
My strategy has been to make multiple accounts on different instances, spread myself across different communities and not to put all my eggs into one basket or get attached to any one community.
I believe it’s a planned feature (for Lemmy, at least), and Mastodon supposedly already has something like that in place.
Being able to just have one account for the entire Lemmyverse could also be nice, but is probably a bit of a far-fetched idea for the time being.
@rosatherad @polaroid This is very much how it works with Mastodon, you can basically export your data and hop to another instance whenever you like!
Honestly this is how it should work, for all of the #Fediverse. Migration should not be a second thought, but an integrated and assumed part of using the fediverse. I’ve jumped servers 3 times on Mastodon, because I kept finding a “better” home for myself and my interests. Finding the right place takes time!
I completely agree about the migration. I guess it would make some moderation a little more tricky - like if a user got banned, can they migrate? I guess migration would only be through federated instances? I would imagine that a migration would involve carrying around some data about corrective action that had been taken previously?
I don’t think those are insurmountable questions, though.