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How do I move my account to another instance? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago by FrostyDog@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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."

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago

Gotcha.