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What is a useful tip a new lemmy/kbin users should know? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by npastaSyn@kbin.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I'm sure many new users are curious.

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[–] themadcodger@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In the mastodon/Calckey world you can migrate your account on one instance to a new account on a new instance and all the people following you will transfer and automatically follow your new account. So you don't have to be all "Hey moving to [xyz new instance] follow me there!"

That's something that's in the works for kbin and Lemmy some day

[–] npastaSyn@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm curious if that works with unfederated servers or servers that simple just get shutdown. Ie xyz government decides to raid the servers, (is there redundancy in the data?)

[–] MeowdyPardner@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I guess the main challenge would be proving to the new instance that the old offline instance authorized the transfer, maybe something like a keypair could be generated with each account and a signed proof attached to the user profile that gets federated around as other servers receive user profile objects, then provide an account backup function that lets you save the keys as a file so the importing server can verify the key and federate the change of ownership of content to other instances somehow.