iopq@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Like it or not, Nostr is the only one that doesn’t tie my identity to a server. I’ve lost several Lemmy accounts during the Reddit migration and I’ve had to subscribe to new instances all over again. Once it’s down, really hard to migrate anything
kevincox@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
This is the advantage of decentralization over federation. IMHO the fact that Lemmy is only federated really hurts it. Not so much for user accounts (in theory these can be backed up restored and moved. Not ideal but not awful) but in that communities are tied to servers. When the server a community is on goes away it is hugely damaging to that community.
dil@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
lemm.ee leaving made me not want to use this as much and I had 6 different accounts, it was just the main