How do you join a different instance?
How do you join a different instance?
You create an account on the instance you'd like to move to. After that you can use some migration script to migrate your bookmarks and subscriptions, like one of those mentioned in this post.
20No need to use script, in settings you can now download/export all settings (including subs), and then import them again on new instance.
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Go to the instance and sign up for it, assuming they have open sign ups.
13I'm new to this but I'll figure it out eventually.
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You just join another instance like normal.
But having left beehaw recently, I would say I can't really see any good reasons to leave lemmy world.
I only left beehaw because one admin I felt was overlooking crap people in one specific minority and it was slowly turning into a echo chamber. Ironically, it turns out the crap person in particular coloured my perception of other lemmy servers ages ago to make it seem like other lemmy servers were a cesspool (they are not)
It was also surprisingly unstable compared to lemmy world servers
I haven't seen any actions by lemmy world admins however which would encourage leaving.
In fact, you can access mostly the same posts from different servers here anyway because servers are mostly federated
8How do you join other instances?
You just join another instance like normal.
Well that clears that up!
As far as not wanting to leave lemmy.world, you can't see life through their eyes.
Me personally, I've decided to stay, but only because my top priority is having an instance that won't be gone in a year because they have 6 users, and the admin doesn't want to pay for an instance no one uses.
If I could find a stable instance, with no threats of being shut off ever, that doesn't defederate with anyone, I would go there.
The OTHER reason I don't leave is because Lemmy isn't ready for prime time. I'm on Lemmy.World, which despite the intentions of Lemmy, is essentially the centralized hub. And one of the biggest reasons I don't leave is that if I want to create a new community, I CAN'T do so on any other instance besides my home instance.
This means I can move to a less populated instance, create a community, and nobody will see it.
OR
I can stay here, create the community here, and it will get seen more often by people browsing by local. Or exploring what communities this instance has.
But I suspect eventually you'll be able to give instance admins the ability to allow non-local users to create communities. And I suspect the norm will be for admins to allow this. This will allow Lemmy to grow, and maybe users will spread out more.
My biggest reason FOR wanting to leave Lemmy.World would be to be on an instance that doesn't defederate from ANYONE. I'll choose what content is offensive to me, thank you. Which for me, is next to none.
1lemm.ee is pretty big and doesnt defederate nearly as much as lemmy.world
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I see. Thanks 😊
5Oh. Thanks 😊
5You don't need to join another instance to comment or view things there!
4I got the message that my post was removed because I was on a local instance on Lemmy.world.
3But your home instance is already lemmy.world. I'm confused what's going on lol. Some communities only allow people from that community to post or put top level comments there because it is a community for problems related to the instance. Maybe that is what happened?
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Why would one want to move to a different instance? Why would someone want to be on multiple instances? To be honest, the initial registration process wasn't straightforward for me and I just about gave up.
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