So as the title states, what are the benefits and downsides to each? On one hand, subscribing all from one instance (i.e this one), is most convinient, but on the other hand, if the instance goes offline / shuts down etc then I’m SOOL.
What would be the easiest way to transfer subscriptions across instances?
One annoying thing I have realized is that while a small instance is unlikely to be defederated from anyone thus giving you the most access to the fed, you have to “unlock” a lot of communities by searching for them as they are not seen before anyone attempts to interact with them. Then again if it did do it automatically I would have to filter out loli by community which would be even more annoying.
So there’s the hidden downside to something that seemingly only has upsides at a surface level.
Redundancy is your friend, always.
Afaik, there’s no way to transfer subscriptions. You have to do it manually.
I’m hoping a tool will be made soon. But yes, in the meantime there no reason not to make multiple accts just in case.
Seems like it would be a pretty simple tool to make. It merely has to access the API on one instance to log in and gather all of your subscriptions, and then log into the other and subscribe to them all.
Someone’s actually made one now but I haven’t tried it.
