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Why is Lemmy World down? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Why do the instances keep going down? It makes me think that this is not a reliable social network, but the alternatives are not as good.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In the Fediverse it isn’t possible to reserve your username. I could host a server and get something like [email protected] so it’s unreasonable to expect that users keep the same username across instances. Reddit is more anonymous than Facebook. The Fediverse is more anonymous than Reddit.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But I do.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Then you should drop that assumption/expectation.