I am a reddit refugee just discovering lemmy and exploring for the first time. However one thing I noticed quickly was the stress instance are experiencing.
With the great reddit exodus and the influx of new users onto lemmy instances that may not be prepared.
Is there a way to deal with instances going offline (even if just temporarly) but still accessing a single profile, subscription list, configuration, possibly even inbox contents?
Perhaps there is a third party tool that can be self hosted to keep multiple profiles on different instances in sync?
The best peace of mind is to run your own instance, but it takes a bit of tech know how. But then at least you know it will never shut down. :)
Alternatively, sign up for smaller instances that you think will remain. There is no reason to use the most used instance when it’s a distributed system.
You could host your own Lemmy instance, I think that would do what you want.
The thing I’m seeing issue with is the expense of a cloud server and domain just for a single instance. If the possibility were made available to connect a raspberry pi to my network and offload my posts/images/videos/profile onto my own network by secure proxy, I’d do it, or maybe just some kind of mirror that I could port to another instance if the original goes down.
