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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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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 hours ago (9 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours 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."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago
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