Both were down for me before, they seem to be up right now but just made this account on Lemmy.blahaj.zone (Henry is the name of my actual blahaj lol). It’s probably because of the traffic influx from reddit refugees from the absolutely disastrous spez ama (where he doubles down on everything and doesn’t apologize at all). Allegedly they’re trying to suppress Lemmy mentions but I guess it’s not working well enough lol

A good problem to have although long term we’re going to have to figure out how to deal with these spikes in traffic.

  • eodc
    4·
    1 year ago

    The way I see it, the benefit of federation is that it gives you the option/freedom to move to another instance later on while still being able to access all the network’s content.

    I’m not sure if lemmy currently has this feature, but for example Mastodon allows a user to move their account to another instance. It’s not necessary for someone to move their account, but having the ability to is nice. A way to think about it is that it builds the ability to flee an instance into the platform itself, but doesn’t penalize the user from fleeing an instance. Unlike reddit where people are fleeing but now they lose access to all the content reddit has.

      • eodc
        2·
        1 year ago

        Re Mastodon: Tbh I’m not sure. I’m also a reddit refugee and have been exploring different fediverse services. I think how mastodon implements it is as a sort of “authenticated redirect”. Not to sure on how ActivityPub supports one account controlling another account on ActivityPub. Maybe could be implemented as a sort of keyring, where the most recent account on the newest instance has tokens for each of the past accounts on the old instances so that their posts can be transparently modified by the most recent account?

        Or maybe this is a non-issue and people can just make new accounts on different instances.

      • pootriarch@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
        1·
        1 year ago

        is that somewhat new?

        it’s somewhat… janky.

        you can ‘migrate’ an account, to use the masto term that will make it easier to search. this:

        • makes it so your old account can’t post
        • puts a ‘pointer’ on that account so that you get its mentions (i think)
        • puts a note on that profile that you’re really you-at-new-place now
        • causes all accounts following you to auto-follow the new place

        it does not:

        • remove you-at-old-place from other people’s follower·ing lists; old you eventually shows as dormant, but you’re still in their lists until and unless they clean house
        • take any posts with you; you-at-new-place starts with an empty profile
        • copy over any profile information
        • copy over any post filters

        i’m not clear on how long your old posts linger at old-place, and you might have to export/import your following list.

        it’s possible, i’ve seen lots of people do it, but it gets more unappealing the longer you’ve been actively using the account. unless you’re like me and have posts set to self-destruct within days. and you can imagine the difficulty of actually moving the posts - if i were an avid shitposter and i moved house to noshit·social, then all my garbage would be dumped in the yard in violation of policy.