Fediverse

Same. The beauty of the internet is the freedom of movement. You can have one account or many accounts across the internet, and it doesn't matter. You can go where you're treated best without tolerating the bullshit of a platform or instance if it does not suit you. Speaking of news, RSS feeds have been my greatest ally in sourcing decentralized information that I choose.

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.

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.

@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!

@brunox unfortunately it doesn't have similar tools as of yet but I imagine they'll be worked on eventually!

@Kwaker76 tldr defederation is disconnecting from the rest of the fediverse (or whatever specific instances you don't want to talk to). I think there are tiers to it but that's the gist.

Some people are salty but beehaw defederated from sh.itjustworks and Lemmy.world as a temporary stopgap until better modtools are available to prevent getting harassed.

By default all instances communicate with each other if people subscribe from one to another. If one instance doesn't want to talk to another instance for one reason or another, they can block it (defederate from it) and this stops the traffic between them.

An easy-ish way to explain it is to use the example of email. Gmail, Outlook, Proton, your private email server...they all are independent of each other but can interact with each other. That interaction is "federation". Kbin, Lemmy, and even Mastodon, PeerTube, et al can interact with each other even though they are independent of each other, yet alone not the same "usage" (i.e., link aggregators vs. microblogs vs video hosting...).

Defederation simply means ending the interaction. The instance will still operate as is, but will not interact with what it has defederated from. In the case of Beehaw, they still interact with the rest of the Fediverse, but not with the instances they blocked.

To circle back to the email example, if your private email server defederated from Outlook, you'd still be able to send/receive email from the others, but not Outlook.

I have multiple under the same username too but I still fear for when it might be taken, for example x_x aaah

I hope people develop a transfer option soon (with limitations of course).

I have multiple accounts on different instances with different usernames. I wouldn't blink an eye if I lost my post and comment history as I keep a local copy of posts and comments I like and move on. Would love to see a transfer option, but there is something special about packing up and starting over again where no one knows my name or has some preconceived notion about who I am as a person because I wrote an opinion they did not like.

An instance is an individual installation of the (Lemmy / Kbin / Mastodon) system. One person might be hosting something on Docker, another might pay a web host, another might just have an old Linux box they set up with a static IP and such. Each instance is self-contained and could function as an independent entity but there are also tools built in that let those independently hosted instances talk and share.

I like to liken it to email providers for simplicity. Gmail and Hotmail are independently hosted, COULD function as independent, internal only systems... but they use common protocols to talk and share email.