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  • I still see benefits to strong instance identity, it can lead to some interesting dynamics down the line.

    Such as?

    But it needs to come with a smooth onboarding process, paired with the ability to easily migrate your account to a new instance with no loss of account history.

    Totally agree. Like I said, I think the instance should be selected automatically (or at least promoted) by available capacity. It could just sort the list by user count to start and maybe start collecting some performance telemetry on instances to fine tune it later.

    The account history is a big one, too. It could even be as simple as having the ability to download/upload your account history in a zip file, then it also serves as a backup. You could even schedule it regularly with the right bot or browser extension.

    Another thing I just thought of while I was replying to this is that would be really nice to have is cross-instance authentication. It’s kind of annoying when I go to a message context, but then I have to go back and find the message in my inbox to reply.







  • Making the understanding of lemmy’s internal infrastructure incumbent upon users seems a bit … clunky. I work in IT, I get why it works this way, but I don’t see how making it so apparent it serves any benefit to users.

    If any user can participate in any community regardless of instance, does anything matter other than instance capacity? The sign up could just automatically select an instance on that basis (but also provide the user the option to select one manually).