Basically, your posts/comments etc are just sent to other servers, like in email.
You can export your bookmarks and subscriptions, the old copy of your posts/comments is available on other instances.
Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month
Owlboi@lemm.ee 10 months ago
as someone who barely understands this whole fediverse stuff and had a difficult enough time just choosing and getting into an instance after leaving reddit, what does this mean for me?
is my account and all its posts, comments, activity and bookmarks just gonna be gone?
can that stuff be imported into a different instance?
this sounds like a huge pain in the ass, and my plan in picking a bigger instance in the hope it wouldnt just go off the rails or shut down apparently backfired.
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 10 months ago
People seem to want to overcomplicate the fediverse. Think of instances like independent old-school internet forums each with their own mods and subforums. You pick the one you want to participate in and sign up. Yeah, you can pick more than one, and of course you have to sign up for each one independently of the other. They do not share accounts. Each forum is independent.
The big difference is that each forum can “ally” itself with another forum and your comments and posts are shared and saved among the allies, members of the other forums can interact with you because their comments are shared back to yours.
So in this case one forum (lemmee) shuts down, but all the shared info will still exist on the other forums, it doesn’t get deleted from the allied forums. It’s just not accessible to the OP on lemmee anymore because the original account and forum are gone.
I think saved bookmarks that are saved on an account will no longer work unless your app saves them externally.
Owlboi@lemm.ee 10 months ago
this is why lemmy will never beat corporate owned services like reddit. the inconvenience is enough for most people to not even give it a chance
Ledericas@lemm.ee 10 months ago
they also have political motivations, its easy to disseminate right wing propaganda, ragebaiting into the forum, like reddit.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
“Beat” as in have more users? No, never, and it’s better that way. “Beat” as in be a better user experience for those who have the little bit of tech literacy need to use them? It has been for years.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Both a blessing and a curse.
ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
this is why lemmy will never beat corporate owned services
Which famously, never shut down and take their content with them :P
HawlSera@lemm.ee 10 months ago
At this point I look forward to spitting on Reddit’s grave
nmtake@lemm.ee 10 months ago
AFAIK contents aren’t shared automatically between servers. See join-lemmy.org/…/federation_getting_started.html
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I was trying to keep it simple. Yes, there is more to it than what I said.
khorovodoved@lemm.ee 10 months ago
is my account and all its posts, comments, activity and bookmarks just gonna be gone?
You will not be able to log into your account. Your account history (profile, posts and comments) will still be visible on other instances (the ones that already exist, any new ones will not be able to fetch content from lemm.ee) in read-only.
Your bookmarks and subscriptions can be exported on the settings page (that, of cause, needs to be done before you loose access to your account). After that they can be imported to a different instance from file.
I also recomend to put a link to your new account in the profile of your old account so that people would be able to find you. It can be done like this: “@username@instance.url”. For me it is “@khorovodoved@lemm.ee”. That way it would work even after lemm.ee will shut down. Only do that beforehand, so it has time to federate.
Microw@lemm.ee 10 months ago
It won’t be gone, but rather appear as an archived copy when the profile is displayed from an existing working instance. So the posts and comments will all still be there.
The bookmarks however I don’t know.
Subscriptions can be exported out of your current account and then imported into your new account.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 10 months ago
No. Your account and it’s posts, comment, and activity will live on because they’re copied to other instances. You won’t be able to log on though. That’s why the post suggests making a new account and updating your bio before the shut down. Exporting and importing your settings will probably carry over bookmarks.