I think you may misunderstand. Let’s say Lemmy.world goes down, you are still free to make a new account on any other Lemmy instance and still have the same username (hopefully). Smokeydope@Lemmy.world simply becomes smokeydope@lemm.ee or whatever instance you make a new account on. A lot of instances federate with most other instances so you will more or less get access to the same content. A good Lemmy client like Voyager/wefwef.app let’s you hot swap between multiple accounts
Unfortunately there’s no way to export/import sub’s which I think should be a feature in the future. I’m not sure if you can access Lemmy.world content from another instance while it’s down maybe someone else can chime in on that.
Here is a good instance list that shows number of users. Seeing it really helped me understand why Lemmy.world is down. It has 22k users. The next largest has 4k. Most others barely scrape hundreds.
We are guilty as aspecies of tending
to choose the most popular option because it offers the most interaction. The enemy of federation is ourselves and cognitive bias. I am guilty as charged.
Here’s a good list to find reddit sub replacements on fediverse too very helpful
https://sub.rehab/
smugly points out other servers exist
correct me if i’m wrong, but i think if the instance your account is on is down you can’t interact with any other instances?
I think you may misunderstand. Let’s say Lemmy.world goes down, you are still free to make a new account on any other Lemmy instance and still have the same username (hopefully). Smokeydope@Lemmy.world simply becomes smokeydope@lemm.ee or whatever instance you make a new account on. A lot of instances federate with most other instances so you will more or less get access to the same content. A good Lemmy client like Voyager/wefwef.app let’s you hot swap between multiple accounts
Unfortunately there’s no way to export/import sub’s which I think should be a feature in the future. I’m not sure if you can access Lemmy.world content from another instance while it’s down maybe someone else can chime in on that.
Here is a good instance list that shows number of users. Seeing it really helped me understand why Lemmy.world is down. It has 22k users. The next largest has 4k. Most others barely scrape hundreds.
https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances
We are guilty as aspecies of tending to choose the most popular option because it offers the most interaction. The enemy of federation is ourselves and cognitive bias. I am guilty as charged.
Here’s a good list to find reddit sub replacements on fediverse too very helpful https://sub.rehab/
+1 on that import/export subs
You can use this to migrate your settings/communities:
https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim
They’re implying people can go make an account on those other instances to continue to use lemmy. Smugly.