Slowly exploring the lemmy ecosystem, since I don’t want to use reddit, and was wondering if selfhosting would be a good idea?
Slowly exploring the lemmy ecosystem, since I don’t want to use reddit, and was wondering if selfhosting would be a good idea?
Not the OP, but can you move your account to a private instance or is it not possible at the moment?
It’s not possible at the moment. Lemmy devs acknowledged it was a widely requested feature but last I read, they were focused on maintaining the performance of Lemmy during the spike of users during the great Reddit migration.
Ah ok makes sense, thanks.
Not yet, that’s (open) issue #1985: Moving user profile to a new instance.
The devs also explicitly mentioned this request in their statement:
For now, you can create another account on another instance and use that instead (or both), or just peek how the experience might be.
Ah ok, I might try making a second account at some point, not yet though.
I use a browser extension to modify CSS client side
The law can censor you (although you could put a Lemmy instance on i2p)
Everything else you said is right
Do I truly own my own data then? If I make a post, such as this, which is posted from lemmy.world to lemmy.ml, would my removal of the post on my instance remove it from lemmy.ml as well?
If the instance your account is on decides to shutdown, you lose everything, your account and all your contributions, on your own instance you don’t.