It’s laziness. Them being “tech literate” is probably akin to knowing how to use the internet and signing up for a social media site. Enter email, new password, verify account, done. Understanding how federated social media works should technically not be an issue for them, because it’s literally just an extra step (choosing an instance to sign up with), but they are just too lazy or can’t be bothered to do it.
I’m tech literate - I’ve been on the internet since I connected the university I was working at in the early '90s. I was a system/network engineer until around '15. Choosing an instance is a hurdle that can’t be overlooked. Now that I’m “in” it seems trivial, but it delayed my joining Lemmy for quite a while. No other social media has it, and it just felt wrong. And now that I’ve been here for 2 years I still don’t understand a lot about how it works - like, if I decide I don’t like the instance I’m on now, I assume I’ll lose my history of posts and comments if I move? Again, it’s probably trivial for me to go find out, but we’re just not used to putting any effort into our social media platform. It’s a good thing for that to change, but we can’t ignore the fact that we are asking people to change when they come here.
It’s laziness. Them being “tech literate” is probably akin to knowing how to use the internet and signing up for a social media site. Enter email, new password, verify account, done. Understanding how federated social media works should technically not be an issue for them, because it’s literally just an extra step (choosing an instance to sign up with), but they are just too lazy or can’t be bothered to do it.
I’m tech literate - I’ve been on the internet since I connected the university I was working at in the early '90s. I was a system/network engineer until around '15. Choosing an instance is a hurdle that can’t be overlooked. Now that I’m “in” it seems trivial, but it delayed my joining Lemmy for quite a while. No other social media has it, and it just felt wrong. And now that I’ve been here for 2 years I still don’t understand a lot about how it works - like, if I decide I don’t like the instance I’m on now, I assume I’ll lose my history of posts and comments if I move? Again, it’s probably trivial for me to go find out, but we’re just not used to putting any effort into our social media platform. It’s a good thing for that to change, but we can’t ignore the fact that we are asking people to change when they come here.
You can’t move it to a new account.
You can link both of your accounts to each other in your profile and have the same username so that people can recognize you