I’m still quite lost when it comes to the fediverse. I created an account on the main instance, however as I understood more how it works, it seems like certain instances that interest me are “defederated” from this instance, and vice versa. So now I want to move my account to be able to see those instances, however I want to keep my follows and my posts I have on this instance. Is that possible? I read that fediverse is resistant to censorship in this regard, so there must be something I’m missing here.

  • Cowbee [he/they]
    132·
    1 month ago

    I’m not sure instance hopping is available yet, but you can always just sign up for the instance you want. However, Lemmy.world is not the “main” instance, Lemmy.ml is. Lemmy.world is the largest instance, which can cause confusion, but it definitely takes an active stance against Marxists and even Anarchists, which is why it is defederated from some of the major leftist instances.

    Which instance are you trying to join? Which defederated ones from Lemmy.world do you want to see?

    • davelAEnglish
      9·
      1 month ago

      As far as we’re concerned there is no “main” instance, we don’t want there to be one, and we explicitly state that lemmy.ml is not that. What is lemmy.ml?

      • Cowbee [he/they]
        5·
        1 month ago

        Thanks for that, didn’t know! I was unaware that there was an official stance on the matter, though even nutomic makes the point that it’s easy to conflate “flagship instance” with “main instance.”

        • davelAEnglish
          6·
          1 month ago

          The core Lemmy devs admin this instance and use it as a guinea pig for new software releases, but otherwise it’s not special.

    • FrostyDog@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      1 month ago

      I think it was lemmy.dbzer0 (?) something along those lines. However when I use the tool to see defederated instances this one doesn’t show up, however I can’t find it when I search for it either.

        • FrostyDog@lemmy.worldOP
          1·
          1 month ago

          All I get when I search that instance is Mullvad VPN. Can an admins also block specific communities within an allowed instance?

          • Majestic
            4·
            1 month ago

            They can block specific communities.

            Previously there was this whole thing over lemmy world admins banning their piracy community so I would not be surprised if they were blocking certain dbzero communities as well out of their extremely cautious and risk averse nature.

          • Cowbee [he/they]
            21·
            1 month ago

            They can, yes, but I am not sure if that’s your issue.

            Either way, joining dbzer0 should fix your problem.