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Pardon my ignorance if this is a dumb question, but can a community be moved from one instance to another? Like re-homed?

Seems like it’d be handy if the people running an instance start acting up or turning nazi or something and you want to distance your community from them.

Wouldn’t want a situation where people start concentrating communities on the instances that have the highest user counts, then that instance owner sells out to some mega corp or starts doing some shady stuff.

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[–] BornVolcano 6 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Related question: do you need to create a new account for every instance you try to use? How does this stuff work?

[–] hungryish 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not necessarily. You can subscribe to a specific community on another instance by searching from your "home" instance with !<communityname>@<server> and subscribing from there.

[–] BornVolcano 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s pretty easy if you’re doing it from within an app (e.g., Memmy here)

[–] BornVolcano 2 points 1 year ago

I found connect, idk which others work well on Android. I couldn't seem to find liftoff. This is definitely better than mobile browser but the markdown options are kinda shitty on here tbh

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

Same as reddit though? Now you just put @server.url after the subreddit/community name when going there directly from the address bar on pc

You get used to it pretty quick

[–] BornVolcano 3 points 1 year ago

I'm not great with change haha. But yeah I'm sure I'll adjust.

[–] snailwizard 5 points 1 year ago

You don’t have to. Implementation is a bit buggy but in theory you should be able to subscribe to and view all content from federated instances from your “home” instance

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nope. You have access to everything from just one; just search for the community in the search tab and join it

To go there directly from the address bar, put /c/[email protected]

[–] aceshigh 4 points 1 year ago

what do you mean by "try"? each instance has a different UI, so if you want to explore the layout/functions of each instance then you'd need to create a new account for each of them. but if your goal is to explore different communities (local and global instances) then one account gives you access to all.

[–] marsokod 4 points 1 year ago

Think of it like an email address. Any account you have can talk to any other email provider, there are no limitations on that.

If you are not happy with your email provider (Lemmy instance), you can always create a new address at another provider and use that one. There are currently no features to automatically migrate all your history, but that may come.

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer 3 points 1 year ago

If the instance is being federated (i.e. it's content is getting pulled in by other instances) then no. If you really want to participate in an instance that's effectively been blocked then yes, you'd need an account on that specific instance.

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

I think it would help if you share what specifically you want to do on other instances.

Just follow communities on them? No need, you can follow from where you already are, like the other reply says.

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

I guess I just have to get used to this. No matter how many times people try to explain I cannot seem to wrap my mind around the fediverse.

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

I don't get most of it either, I learn just enough to do what I need. Did you figure out how following communities works?

[–] BornVolcano 2 points 1 year ago

Not entirely, but I'm just doing what I can right now and learning as I go. I've learned the markdown well enough to transcribe, and that was my first priority