Through browsing, I've began to understand a few fragments of how the Fediverse works, instances, the way they communicate. It's quite ingenuous actually, specially the way they distribute communities across various servers, easily reachable from a single server via a "remote" format. Fixing one of the problems that the Forums of old had.

But while I can access, post and comment on a remote instance. From what I came to understand, I believe that that the instance I signed up on, will always be the 'local' one.

If for whatever reason, one were to migrate instances, leaving their local behind towards a new one, taking their account history and configuration with them. Is that possible?

Thank you for reading and have a fine day.

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[–] DiligentCod 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think it is possible but I have never done it.

https://joinfediverse.wiki/Moving_instances#:~:text=Log%20in%20to%20the%20account,Move%20to%20a%20different%20account.

[–] ArkyonVeil 3 points 1 year ago

Doesn't seem very practical, something like this being possible (one click from account settings) would be very useful for the decentralization of the platform.