User accounts are fragmented and just because you signed on at lemmy.world doesn’t mean your account exists on lemmy.ca.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1985

Communities are fragmented and /c/games on lemmy.world is completely different than the one on lemmy.ml with its own users, set of posts, etc.

Lemmy does not currently allow for instance or user migration.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3057

Nor does it allow for shared communities (ie the aforementioned /c/games is unified across multiple instances)

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3100

We are in the early days. If you’re eager feel free to join in the development on these any many other core issues. There’s real potential here.

  • Naloxone@vlemmy.net
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    1 year ago

    I like Lemmy a lot so far, and I’ve brought along a couple of friends… I do have a couple of questions though!

    What happens if the server I’m on goes down for an extended period of time, or forever? Is my account data just gone? Or is that mirrored somewhere else?

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      1 year ago

      It’s gone. Portability is ostensibly a core goal of fediverse development, so I would assume we’ll see it arrive in code form fairly soon.

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      1 year ago

      I wonder if that happened to me. I signed up a few weeks ago, but my account disappeared somewhere in the Lemmy ether. I made this new account the other day. Hope this one sticks…