How’d you end up migrating it?

That sounds like the right approach. I’ve found if a server is too overloaded, then it gives you the spinning circle when trying to sign up. I’d recommend trying to make an account on a smaller instance and see if that works.

Is it possible to do the opposite? Can I connect from a lemmy instance to follow a couple of people on mastodon?

Even though you don’t know what code is running on their server, the bitwarden client used to communicate with their server is open source & auditable. End-to-end encryption only requires that the client code is trustworthy.

Thanks for writing this up. I believe that intention also matters. Although there’s no difference in terms of the contribution towards suffering, I would treat myself and others differently between accidentally eating non-vegan food vs willingly eating the same food.

I also think it’s important to consider the use of animal products in society. In your wool example, do you believe you have a responsibility to instead donate the wool to avoid others from purchasing wool that does lead to harm? As long as non-vegan societies exist, is it possible for the use of any animal product to be ethical?

Practically, in the real world, I find it easier to draw the line at avoiding the use of all animal products. Even if there may exist animal products that are ethical to use, I find it easier to adhere to the simpler principal of total avoidance. I also think total avoidance helps contribute towards activism. Being seen using animal products, however they were obtained, may enables other to legitimize their own use of animal products.

Ah got it thanks. Then does the !community I’m posting to just act as a tag to stay organized and help others find the post? Or is it used in the federation of the post to other servers?

For example, from my account on beehaw.org I post to [email protected]. This writes to beehaw.org’s database and lets lemmy.ml know about the new post (lemmy.ml saves a copy). Do other instances who have a user subscribed to [email protected] reach out to lemmy.ml to get a list of posts under that community? Or do other instances reach out to beehaw.org to see if there are any posts to [email protected]?

I guess I’m mostly just confused on how !communities are used in the federation process.

That link didn’t work for me, so I’m trying this: [email protected]

It almost sounds like you’re describing RAID 5 of content across fediverse servers.