sure you can just make a new one, but all of your old posts and comments won’t show up. Not to mention your DMs too

it seems kinda counterproductive to the goal of lemmy being federation where you can just move to another instance if yours gets bought by Elon or an admin goes corrupt, but it’s not made simple to do that.

I’ve seen many people be on lemmy.ml that would switch but they’ve been using it since the start of lemmy and they don’t wanna restart

I know mastodon has a little “hey this user has moved to @user@newinstance” popup but that’s not really that elegant either

  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 天前

    fundamentally the answer is “someone has to implement it”

    I don’t think the other answers here are tremendously sensible, yeah sure you can’t technically literally move accounts complete with posts and everything, but like come on people it’s absolutely technically feasible to have a migration feature that is mostly satisfactory… The way mastodon does it is a hell of a lot better than nothing.