When I joined the fediverse I thought I’d have an easier time moving between lemmy platforms. So far I have to create a new username/password on each instance and subscribe to all the things I want to on that new account. I kinda wish I can carry my lemmy user to other platforms more easily.
2 years ago I created a FOSS image board platform called Cryptochan where the gimick was that users used GPG as the RBAC authentication method. I wanted users to posses their profile as a file that they could input into any Cyptochan platform to leave replies. The file is a private key that isn’t transmitted to the server, instead its used to sign the post right in the users browser. I’ve gotten better at webdevelopment and the the true reason I created the thing was to learn Next.js, the thing is luke-warm garbage and I never expect it to become anything.
But I was wondering if we could do a similar type of trick where a lemmy instance can package up a user and send it to another lemmy instance?
I like the idea of packaging up a user liked that. Check out lasim for someone doing something similar.
But, you don’t really need to create an account on every instance you encounter.
One account is enough if you pick a reasonably sane instance that hasn’t gotten itself defederated.
From an account on one instance you can view All, subscribe to Communities on any instance, and generally just use that as your home base.
If you want a few accounts as insurance in case the instance you picked goes offline due to external factors or for whatever reason, you can use lasim to synchronize your subscriptions between instances.
Yup that’s exactly what I was after