Im pretty satisfied with Lemmy, but one thing i wish you could do is browse instances. Like i wish there was a way i could almost emulate being on my programming.dev account and see all that instances communities while im logged into this account. Afaik theres no easy way to do that without visiting some aggregator website. It would be nice to do within Lemmy itself.
Some ability to move identity. I don’t love the way you move accounts on Mastodon, but I appreciate that its possible.
Having your identity being tied to an instance is not great UX imo. Bans happen, not always for great reasons. Instances die or close up shop. Having to re-do all your subscriptions, losing your comment history, etc just because your smaller instance closes is pretty annoying and pushes people to more stable, centralized, large instances.
This is why I prefer nostr over mastodon, it’s basically the same in every key way except that your identity is not tied to your instance. I believe nostr devs are working on a reddit clone like lemmy or kbin, but it’s not done yet. Their twitter/mastodon clone is great though.
You can mitigate that by exporting your settings and keeping them as a backup. That’s one of the nice features that 19.X brought
That’s good to know. Sounds like it doesn’t totally solve the portability issue but definitely a step in the right direction.
You can do it from version 19.X, no? I just did it the other day.
Nice to know 19 did something other than break federation the whole time I was off for the holidays.
Definitely not the best experience ever