Is account portability a thing on Lemmy? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by NevermindNoMind@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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I've heard one of the benefits of activity pub is that you can take your account and its connections, content, etc, to other servers. They were talking about that today on the Vergecast as one of the selling points for Meta's new Twitter clone Threads - celebrities using the app don't have to worry about Meta shutting Threads down because they can take their accounts and followers to a new server. That doesn't seem to be a thing on Lemmy. Am I missing something about how activity pub works here?

Apologies if this is a basic question, I'm still trying to wrap my head around all of this.

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[-] Andonome@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

What I most from Reddit, is the communities there. Nobody can nuke that - if Lemmy.ml disappears, those groups will have (or make) copies elsewhere.

I don't think anyone follows me on Reddit, but if I followed people, I guess they'd re-emerge soon after. Of course that's not great if you follow 100 people - Mastodon's much better at retaining that sort of thing.

[-] erisir@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

yeah, what we'd really need is issuing ActivityPub Move events for community actors (afaik both Lemmy users and communities are actors on the ActivityPub side, thus communities can be followed / posted to from Mastodon, too). this would allow moving communities between servers to make sure that followers of the old community just carry on following the new community

I guess moving followers of users would behave in a similar way, albeit probably much less critical for the health of communities