• dev_null@lemmy.ml
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    3 days ago

    Me, who chose a big default instance before knowing anything about Lemmy: guess I will be a civilian casualty

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        It costs all my account history, not knowing people responded to my old comments, losing or having to migrate all my saved posts/comments, etc.

        When I first joined there was talk of Lemmy supporting account migration between instances do I was waiting for that, but that has petered out I think.

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          As someone who has changed accounts you don’t really lose that much. Karmas not a concept here, so that’s the big one.

          Besides that, most apps let you log into multiple accounts so you can still check all of the legacy interactions if you need to.

          The main pain was subscribing to all the communities again.

          EDIT: when I first made accounts, .ml was recommended, and I tried signing up cuz I thought, “I work with machine learning, sure!”

          Oh, those were brighter days.

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      “Civilian casualty”?

      I’m sorry, but I don’t understand your reference and/or sarcasm.

      Based on your reply, should the takeaway be that there is no way to block entire instances?