Through browsing, I've began to understand a few fragments of how the Fediverse works, instances, the way they communicate. It's quite ingenuous actually, specially the way they distribute communities across various servers, easily reachable from a single server via a "remote" format. Fixing one of the problems that the Forums of old had.

But while I can access, post and comment on a remote instance. From what I came to understand, I believe that that the instance I signed up on, will always be the 'local' one.

If for whatever reason, one were to migrate instances, leaving their local behind towards a new one, taking their account history and configuration with them. Is that possible?

Thank you for reading and have a fine day.

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[–] polaris64@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's possible with Mastodon (import/export feature), however it's up to the service in question to support such a system. Lemmy doesn't support this yet but I believe it's a planned feature.

[–] ArkyonVeil@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for clearing it up. What is there right now isn't much, but it should suffice for the tech inclined userbase we have right now.