What happens to my account is the instance I'm using so happens to shut down? Do I lose the account or is there a way to "transfer" it to a different instance.

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• db2@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is why I have 3 accounts right now, manually syncing subscriptions. I’ll lose posts and comments if one disappears but so will everyone else on that instance. When they figure out how to tie accounts together in a better way we’ll have some resilience.

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  • Madbrad200@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Just FYI, you can sync up subscriptions far easier using tools like LASIM

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    • BertramDitore@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ugh THANK YOU. I’ve been looking for this for a couple days after seeing a link out of the corner of my eye and not saving it on the spot. It wasn’t showing up anywhere with my search terms…I knew I wasn’t imagining it…

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• JakenVeina@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Consider the common analogy of e-mail: your e-mail account is defined by its address, because that’s the key piece of info required to do things with that account, like send e-mail from it, or to it. If you change the name of the server that your e-mail account belongs to (E.G. @mymail.com to @mymail2.com) that, by definition, is a different account. Lemmy user accounts work effectively the same way.

  Of course, with e-mail, it’s not terribly difficult to just take the history of all your e-mails from the old server, and move them, but those e-mails are all still gonna show as “from” or “to” the old address, unless you also go through and re-write the history. Lemmy currently does bot have any such “migration” procedure, and also suffers from a variety of design constraints that would make this much more difficult than our theoretical e-mail history migration, most notably the problem of how to synchronizd this mgration action across all instances.

  This issue has actually already come up in practice, BTW. The instance VLemmy basically vanished off the internet a month or so ago, apparently due to loss of their domain name rights, right in the middle of the reddit migration, and there were a lot of people asking whether the whole INSTANCE could be migrated, if the admins could acquire a new domain name. If that wasn’t enough push to get migration capabilities designed and added, I doubt anything will.

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  • ReaderTunesOctopus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The same happened with terefere.eu, it still pings but the web access is shut down. That’s it for me about the idea of using a small local server to relieve the big ones

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• fubo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The posts and comments that you have written remain replicated on whatever instances picked them up.

  You no longer have any control over them, though.

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  • Psythik@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Well it’s good to know that not everything will be lost.

    BRB, creating an account on every instance I can find.

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  • Vlyn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s the case when an instance just straight up shuts down, right?

    But if a user deletes their comment this also gets propagated to other instances. Do instance admins have a nuke button to initiate a delete for all content?

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    • NightOwl@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’ve seen a vlemmy comment show deleted, so I am curious when an instance completely shuts down if comments fade over time to deleted or stay archived and what dictates comments staying or disappearing.

      Like as you mentioned if the admin nukes everything then does everything get deleted and if they don’t then it’s just archived?

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• eee@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I don’t see why accounts should be valuable enough to be worried about.

  When I was on reddit, I would start a new account every 2-3 years.

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• crummysocks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Take regular backups of your subscriptions, saved comments and posts and blocked communities and users

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  • kratoz29@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Is LASIM able to do this? I don’t know where it stores the database file.

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    • freamon@endlesstalk.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It stores it as a JSON in the same directory as the executable.

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    • CheshireSnake@lemdit.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yes. It downloads a json file. For me, it went straight to my desktop.

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  • ominouslemon@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    How would one go about it?

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    • CheshireSnake@lemdit.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      github.com/CMahaff/lasim

      Iirc, it doesn’t include saved posts/comments yet (correct me if I’m wrong) as well as your original account’s post/comment history.

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• redimk@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You lose it and never hear from it again. Happened to me, had to open another account in another instance because of that, it’s a shame but I guess that’s the risk until we get something that is some kind of Backup->Restore->Move account or something.

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• adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You need to transfer it before it vanishes.

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