I had an account on lemmy.one and now the instance has been down for a day or two so I made this new account. I also heard other small instances are dead or disappeared.

So which ones do you think will actually stick around for a long time?

ALSO, does anyone know how to get my subscriptions from lemmy.one and import it here? TIA!

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The fediverse really needs some kind of universal login and a way to easily migrate accounts between instances.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Not so much migrate as be able to use it from anywhere and have it replicated. Same with communities.

Give things a unique ID, and access it from anywhere, even if the original server goes away.

This kind of thing may not be possible with current ActivityPub protocols, but there's always room for improvement.

[–] Gamey 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The universal login is a very old suggestion but it'srealluy hard to pull off because that would have to be build into the core of the protocol. About the migration, that's a Lemmy issue, not a general Fediverse one

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not really; login mechanisms are a separate thing. OAuth already exists. You only need Fediverse software to accept OAuth from anywhere and to provide it to others.

The migration part is IMO harder, but not necessarily by much. I don't know of any fediverse software that'd allow it though.

[–] Gamey 2 points 1 year ago

What I mean with "universal login" is one account for multiple Fediverse services, I guess that wasn't clear from my post. Yea, proper migration is hard and questionable if we should even allow it (could cause all kinds of issues, espwcially regarding account security) but Mastodon allows you to move your followers and add a redirect which is the most important part of the account and Lemmy should probably try to do something similar with ranks and communities.