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.
Related question: do you need to create a new account for every instance you try to use? How does this stuff work?
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.This is so complicated lmao
It’s pretty easy if you’re doing it from within an app (e.g., Memmy here)
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.
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.