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Just joined, still getting used to this. I joined lemmy.ca because people were asking to pick an instance other than the overloaded lemmy.ml and I'm Canadian. This instance seems nice, but it's a little too...Canadian, y'know? I like seeing global news in my feed, not mostly Canadian news. I guess I'll switch from the default Local view to Subscribed and keep subscribing to communities that I enjoy.
If I decide I want to switch to another instance, is there a way to import my data from this account? Or do I have to start fresh?
Did you know that you can subscribe to whatever communities you like, even if they're hosted on other instances? They will show up in your "Subscribed" feed, which you can choose in your user settings as the default view.
In other words, you can have a non-Canadian feed regardless of whether lemmy.ca is your home instance.
Yep, figured that out, thanks. :)
Currently there's not. I think Lemmy devs are looking into implementing that, but there's a whole lot of other work to be done.
IMO, I don't think that my account is really that valuable on one instance or another, so I'm perfectly fine just deleting or leaving another account elsewhere as I move on. Comment history, I guess, can be nice? But it's also sorta invasive having other people poke through that. And there's no overall account scores on Lemmy, so there's not any hard-earned numbers I'd wanna keep.
Unfortunately your user is not currently portable. You may also find that you end up with multiple accounts due to certain aspects of federation and a desire to engage elsewhere.
Moving entirely you could post a reference to the new one in your profile. That's about it at the moment.
I use "Subscribed" and "Top - Day" the most, and it would be kind of nice for that preference to be "remembered". I know several Lemmy clients for Android and iPhone are under development, and I expect that behavior will be common. Jerboa seems to default to Local/Hot whenever you hit Home. Might be configurable though.
In the meantime, there's an RSS feature, and I just use "Subscribed/Top-Day" for my default page.
Point being, this will likely be a common complaint. Even Beehaw.org and Lemmy.world are just a fraction of the Lemmy-verse, so every instance will only ever be a small subset of what's going on. Personally, the Local tab is useful for keeping up on the health and development of your local instance, but I really only scan the local feed once a day or so.
There's currently no straightforward way to migrate your data, about all I've seen is a lemmy_migrate script that can sync your communities between accounts.
That said, if you're feeling limited by the local communities just click the button to switch from local to all and the entire lemmyverse is at your fingertips from your local instance. I've subscribed to communities from ca, ml, dbzer0, kbin, sh.itjust.works and regularly peruse all -- your home instance only becomes an issue if your admins defederated an instance you enjoyed. (See: beehaw)
Greetings from lemmy.world!