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Probably, since it's decentralised people can just move to another instance if the mods on theirs abuse their power.
If you move you lose your history and relationships behind. There is no migration, same as Mastodon. On purpose so as not to disempower instance owners
It works be nice if there was a way to verify that a user is the same one across Lemmy instances.
That is one of the main function of public key cryptography
You can append your digital signature to your messages and it becomes possible to confirm the same person made all the messages
Is there some backing for the idea that it's intentional? There's not technical reason that we couldn't implement migrations.
It's an open source project. Anybody can fork it and create a separate and incompatible network. What they're is, is lack of interest in allowing frictionless for the users. Which would streamline onboarding.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/12423
This long standing issue, which has been closed before, most be completed before the users can sign-up without worry what their instance owners thinks.