ActivityPub does not have that feature or ability. Other federation type software does. But being as Lemmy is built with ActivityPub for federation, it can’t offer instance independent identities.
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lily33@lemm.ee 3 weeks agoThe issue is that currently we don’t have the technical features needed for such an attitude: namely, transfering the communities. Decentralised IDs would also help.
Penguincoder@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
Irelephant@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/…/fep-ef61.md
It does, as an FEP.
veniasilente@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Not just transferring communities, but also posting history (much of what makes a user’s identity).
I’m starting to think that the best way to use Lemmy for posterity is actually the same way as using Reddit for posterity (assuming you’d want to do that): rather than submit your comments directly there, post them in your own blog or smth and just make your lemmy/reddit comments links to your home-comments.
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Do people really make comments with that level of gravity though?
Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
transfering the communities.
lily33@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
I’d say it doesn’t count unless it also moves all followers, which this doesn’t.
Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
It would if all the users were on Piefed instances. I instantly got 100 subscribers on that community as they were Piefed users.
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Yeah, again… unpopular opinion but just embrace the transience. How necessary is “transferring” a community. There’s very few communities with content that provides some kind of reference.
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Exactly.
If you’re making posts or comments that you want preserved, you should be backing them up anyway.
It would be nice if the export function copied saved items as well as subs and blocks though.
mosiacmango@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
It does copy saved items.
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
It does? I have no clue how I missed that. Thank you very much