• lemmyvore@feddit.nl
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    1 year ago

    I seem to remember some parts of the Fediverse being able to pick up your user and move to another instance? Is that Mastodon by any chance? If that’s so, sounds like something Lemmy should look into.

    It doesn’t sound like it would be too hard, pack up your user stuff in a JSON and sign it (basically a JWT), and establish a protocol by which one instance passes the user to another. Or, even better, let the user take their JSON and import it manually into another instance – this could also double as personal backup.

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      1 year ago

      I believe Mastodon has that (seem to remember seeing it when I setup my account) but I think the instance you are on has to still be alive at the time to do i so it doesn’t quite address the sudden shutdown of the instance that holds your identity.

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        1 year ago

        That’s a good point. 😃 All the more reason for them to offer the ability to download your account data.