Comment by itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml on Why is Lemmy World down?

Why do the instances keep going down? It makes me think that this is not a reliable social network, but the alternatives are not as good.

I’ve started a 2nd account on another instance just for situations like that.

How do you keep communities aligned across the accounts?

I made a tool that can help: https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim

It allows you to synchronize subscriptions, blocks, and profile settings between accounts.

(though FYI different versions only gracefully handle a specific API version at a time so there’s some limitations right now as instances upgrade from 0.18.2 to 0.18.3 - see my comment here: https://lemmy.ml/comment/2094948 )

EDIT: Second link isn’t working - must be a Lemmy bug. But you can see it as a recent post on my profile.

Wow looks cool, will have to check it out soon!

specific API version at a time so there’s some limitations right now as instances upgrade from 0.18.2 to 0.18.3

What API-breaking changes did you find?

A super minor one, but there’s a new “infinite scrolling” boolean added to the user settings.

There’s no official way that I know of. I believe it’s in the backlog of desires features on both Lemmy and Kbin. I will say it may be longer until there’s a migration between the two platforms, but there are some unofficial migrations out there between two accounts utilizing the same platform (like one Lemmy instance to another or one kbin instance to another).

Isn’t that spamming though?

Not at all, it’s perfectly fine to have accounts on multiple instances.

Do you mean the same username or different usernames? I may be misunderstanding your point.

I’m not who you’re replying to, but I have accounts on a handful of instances for this very reason. Sometimes things go down or get laggy, and I just hop to a different instance.

It’s a strength of the fediverse.

That’s entirely up to you, it can be the same username if you want. Speaking as an instance admin, there is no problem with users creating multiple accounts across instances, even if they’re the same username.

Spam would be creating as many usernames as you can on any given instance (e.g. trying to register 100 users on lemmy.world because reasons) - there’s obviously a problem with that. Creating you@instance1, you@instance2 and you@instanceN is perfectly fine.

I thought that you had to have the same username to identify yourself.

each instance has its own user base, charlie@instance and charlie@otherinstance are not guaranteed to be the same person any more than @charlie at twitville and @charlie at ig.

There are no requirements, and they wouldn’t be enforceable even if somebody tried. The admin of instance1 has no way of knowing that you already have an account on instance2. Your identifiable details (IP address, e-mail address) are private to the instance that you sign up with and it would be a violation of privacy (and inherently scummy) for those to be shared between instances - they’re not.

You can be anonymous on the fediverse, just like the Internet in general used to be before Facebook.

Not at all. You don’t have to identify as yourself on every instance you have an account. It’s literally a different account. You can keep a backup of all your subscriptions/follows/etc from one to the other or you can treat them as two entirely different identities. Just don’t have them generate a lot of pointless traffic between each other (like arguing with yourself on a post or something).

In the Fediverse it isn’t possible to reserve your username. I could host a server and get something like favrion@lemmy.account so it’s unreasonable to expect that users keep the same username across instances. Reddit is more anonymous than Facebook. The Fediverse is more anonymous than Reddit.

I have accounts on about 6 instances with the same username. I don’t see why that would be a problem.

Don’t use the same username (although you can if it’s available). But try to be a bit anonomous here.

I don’t know why I would want to not use my username though.

A community dedicated to fediverse news and discussion.

Fediverse is a portmanteau of “federation” and “universe”.

Getting started on Fediverse;

What is the fediverse?
- Short ver.
- Full ver.
Fediverse Platforms
How to run your own community

Why is Lemmy World down?

Fediverse

!fediverse@lemmy.ml

Community stats

Community moderators