Nankeru 27 points 3 years ago

This is a critical feature missing. Especially considering when one instance goes down, so does your account.

If announced, we should be able to easily transfer the account.

But an instance might also go down unannounced (especially now with so many hosting instances just for fun or to experiment with it).

While in such a case your posts and comments on this local instance will be gone, there needs to be a way to recover your account on another instance with all your posts and comments made on other instances still connected to your account, being editable or deletable.

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Kissaki 18 points 3 years ago

For robustness against disappearance we kinda need multi-account linking. You set up accounts on a few trustworthy to be resilient instances and link them.

At the moment you are completely dependent on the instance [operator]. Which could disappear for a multitude of reasons.

The average user will be confused enough as it is about the federated aspects. They may choose any random instance to register. And suddenly it's gone.

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bdonvr 14 points 3 years ago

The developers have said they're working on it, this is something the Fediverse supports. Kind of.

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deadly4u 14 points 3 years ago

Not yet! I hope that eventually this is implemented. Mastodon had a similar problem and they kind of, sort of solved it?!

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Echolot 7 points 3 years ago

Interesting, how did they solve it?

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talos 4 points 3 years ago

You have to create a new account on a new server then use the account migration tool. It’s not perfect; you’ll keep your followers but I think your posts won’t transfer over. Notes from the tool:

Before proceeding, please read these notes carefully:

This action will move all followers from the current account to the new account

Your current account’s profile will be updated with a redirect notice and be excluded from searches

No other data will be moved automatically

The new account must first be configured to back-reference this one

After moving there is a waiting period during which you will not be able to move again

Your current account will not be fully usable afterwards. However, you will have access to data export as well as re-activation.

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deadly4u 2 points 3 years ago

It seems that the answer is complicated. Check this out: https://www.makeuseof.com/...

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Kory 5 points 3 years ago

I'd love to see that implemented.

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bzImage 2 points 3 years ago

No account federation ? Why its called Fediverse ?

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