I should have picked pawb.social

  • remon@ani.social
    37·
    19 hours ago

    Nope, accounts exist on instances.

    But you can export your settings and import them to a new account, so you keep all your subscriptions, blocks and other settings.

  • vvilld@lemmy.world
    8·
    16 hours ago

    Can someone eli5 me the reason why you would need/want an account in a different instance? I still don’t really fully understand the fediverse stuff, but am trying to.

    • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      12·
      13 hours ago

      There’s a variety of reasons.

      1. instances are communities, some more loose than others
      2. some instances have themes. lemmy.world is general, aussie.zone welcomes anyone but it’s mostly Australians or friends there-of. Having a user name/address like vvilld@aussie.zone says something about you.
      3. some instances have ideological alignments, lemmy.ml are tankies
      4. some instances de-federate from others, like hexbear is not federated by some / many instances.
      5. the “local” feed can be like a set of subscriptions or curated content. slrpnk.net is the best example I can think of for this, mostly environmentally conscious tech, and renewables, et cetera.
      6. some admins turn out to be idiots. In the early days there was some support from admins of specific / niche instances for bots re-posting content from reddit.
      7. there’s no good reason not to have multiple accounts. In my own case I change instances regularly. IDK why exactly, I just actively avoid allowing my account to become some kind of extension of my identity.
      • vvilld@lemmy.world
        5·
        16 hours ago

        I guess I’m not aware enough to even know how the server I’m on is run. From my understanding, you could see pretty much any community regardless of instance from whatever instance you happen to be on?

        • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
          6·
          15 hours ago

          If you click “Instances” in the page footer and then switch to the tab “Blocked Instances”, you’ll find which instances your server has blocked, you can’t see any posts or comments by users or in communities on instances on that list.

          You may be satisfied with that practice or might not, the point is that the fediverse enables you to choose.

    • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
      31·
      11 hours ago

      .world has had some moderation issues of late. Also, they defederated with instances they consider tankies. You think a tankie can’t offer good advice when I have an AskLemmy question? Think a tankie can’t offer insight troubleshooting a tech issue? I want all the voices.

    • Otherbarry@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyzEnglish
      8·
      16 hours ago

      Sometimes the instance you are on will block communities or other instances that you may still want to be able to view/browse… in those cases your only solution is to create a new Lemmy account at a different instance that does not block those things.

      For example you’re on lemmy.world so all your blocked instances are listed at https://lemmy.world/instances

      In addition lemmy.world admins also block entire communities e.g. blocking all piracy related communities is a big one there https://lemmy.world/post/13320356

      • vvilld@lemmy.world
        1·
        15 hours ago

        Thanks. It doesn’t look like there are any blocked instances on lemmy.world. Is there a similar list of blocked communities?

        • Otherbarry@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyzEnglish
          3·
          14 hours ago

          To view blocked instances if you’re browsing Lemmy on the desktop website go to https://lemmy.world/instances and click the “Blocked Instances” tab.

          Unfortunately there no standard way to view blocked communities, I’m not sure if lemmy.world admins maintain a list somewhere.

          I’ll add that the blocked stuff is good/bad depending on your point of view. e.g. some instances (including lemmy.world) participate in Fediseer which helps determine spammy intances to potentially block and keep spam out. That sort of blocking is okay, the other types of blocking I’m not too onboard with but that’s just IMO.

          PS - If you’re just starting out probably best not to overthink it too much :) As you get more comfortable browsing the Fediverse you can decide later on if you want to set yourself up on another instance.

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
    5·
    19 hours ago

    Nope. Export your subs and such, import it to your new account.

    Copy/paste any comments you want to archive, and that’s the best you can do

  • jackalope@lemmy.ml
    4·
    19 hours ago

    Sadly there isn’t which is a problem. ATPro has portable identity, activitypub does not.

    • nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      14·
      17 hours ago

      Some servers have a particular focus. Pawb.social is a furry server. Generally doesn’t matter too much which server you use as long as it’s not blocked from another server where there are communities you like. You can check the /instances page to see which servers/communities are blocked by a server.

      Also if you want to mod then usually best to have your acct on that community’s server. Less headaches with modreports.