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Trying out Lemmy and kbin… And the #fediverse interoperability has lost me 😥 please #help ! (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey All,
I’m an (old 😉) IT guy, very excited by the #fediverse and trying to find my way amongst various services.

As an example, I started gathering topics I like on a Lemmy account. Then, I got tempted to create different accounts on smaller instances and try out kbin.

I’d love that my « subscriptions » follow me, so that I don’t have to scan all my « magazines » and re-register from everywhere.

Can someone kindly help me on how I can achieve that? Apologies if the question is naive, but given the decentralised nature of those services, shouldn’t each user have a « local » trace of what they follow (for example on a local app), no matter the service, so that they get « their view », their « window » on the #fediverse?

Many thanks for the #fedihelp and again my apologies for the probably basic questions!

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Generally speaking you only need one account for one type of fediverse. It would've been better if there's a way to migrate from one instance to another but that hasn't been implemented yet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder if fediverse platforms can introduce support for exporting/importing a json list of subscriptions and follows so you can at least transfer/share those on your own.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mastodon already supports account migration, so it is possible.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Many thanks! Even if I must confess that since I’m confused on the question of Lemmy and kbin accounts, I don’t dare putting mastodon in the equation 😅

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

kbin isn't even classed as beta yet, it's early alpha. There is LOTS of work still to come - which is part of the excitement. The fact that it even works as well as it does right now - is a good indicator of things to come.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I’ve got a few questions from this then:

Does this mean one account on any kbin instance, one account for peertube, one for mastodon? 3 accounts? Can I have one account across services?

If l self-host each of these services and have it locked to just me, and then post from my own server instance to other instances, who stores that post data? Does it reside on my server? If I shut it down, do my posts disappear or show [deleted] like Reddit did? If the posts remain because they’re also stored by the other instance, what happens if both are shut down?