Asklemmy

43810 readers

1 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
!lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 6 years ago

MODERATORS

Why do each of my accounts have different subscription lists? (programming.dev)

submitted 2 years ago by danhab99@programming.dev to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

6 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] foo@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] danhab99@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

Yup that's exactly what I was after