Both were down for me before, they seem to be up right now but just made this account on Lemmy.blahaj.zone (Henry is the name of my actual blahaj lol). It’s probably because of the traffic influx from reddit refugees from the absolutely disastrous spez ama (where he doubles down on everything and doesn’t apologize at all). Allegedly they’re trying to suppress Lemmy mentions but I guess it’s not working well enough lol
A good problem to have although long term we’re going to have to figure out how to deal with these spikes in traffic.
I looked around for an instance like a landing server and found lemm.ee. The admin advertises the intention of this instance to be something like a landing server, so maybe direct confused people to there and let them explore after settling in?
I’m curious though, is the intention of the federation also that you move onto different instances later on? As you should be able to access everything from everywhere anyway, this should not be necessary I presume?
The way I see it, the benefit of federation id that it gives you the option/freedom to move to another instance later on while still being able to access all the network’s content.
I’m not sure if lemmy currently has this feature, but for example Mastodon allows a user to move their account to another instance. It’s not necessary for someone to move their account, but having the ability to is nice. A way to think about it is that it builds the ability to flee an instance into the platform itself, but doesn’t penalize the user from fleeing an instance. Unlike reddit where people are fleeing but now they lose access to all the content reddit has.
As long as we can get the ability to migrate our accounts to different instances, I’m good with that. That way you can take your entire account setup and also maintain control over your previous post and comments. To my knowledge, right now, no way to do that on Lemmy. Didn’t even know you could do that on Mastodon…is that somewhat new?
Re Mastodon: Tbh I’m not sure. I’m also a reddit refugee and have been exploring different fediverse services. I think how mastodon implements it is as a sort of “authenticated redirect”. Not to sure on how ActivityPub supports one account controlling another account on ActivityPub. Maybe could be implemented as a sort of keyring, where the most recent account on the newest instance has tokens for each of the past accounts on the old instances so that their posts can be transparently modified by the most recent account?
it’s somewhat… janky.
you can ‘migrate’ an account, to use the masto term that will make it easier to search. this:
it does not:
i’m not clear on how long your old posts linger at old-place, and you might have to export/import your following list.
it’s possible, i’ve seen lots of people do it, but it gets more unappealing the longer you’ve been actively using the account. unless you’re like me and have posts set to self-destruct within days. and you can imagine the difficulty of actually moving the posts - if i were an avid shitposter and i moved house to noshit·social, then all my garbage would be dumped in the yard in violation of policy.