sure you can just make a new one, but all of your old posts and comments won’t show up. Not to mention your DMs too
it seems kinda counterproductive to the goal of lemmy being federation where you can just move to another instance if yours gets bought by Elon or an admin goes corrupt, but it’s not made simple to do that.
I’ve seen many people be on lemmy.ml that would switch but they’ve been using it since the start of lemmy and they don’t wanna restart
I know mastodon has a little “hey this user has moved to @user@newinstance” popup but that’s not really that elegant either
My guess would be because they’re all independent instances, not a monolithic parent company like social media…but that’s just an early morning, no coffee spitball.
I agree. This could be abused.
Now your 1 week old account appear as a 10 year old account with 100s of contributions and 1000s of upvotes.
This could be mitigated by having migration tool validate each comment/post against the data obtained from the instance the comment/post was placed at.
But this is too much work and probably still not fool proof
Also, isn’t this something you could just do anyways, with your own instance? There’s plenty of small instances and I don’t like the concept of users not being credible unless they’re from a well-known instance. Unless of course the instance name is some jibberish domain but that’s kind of obvious…
Also couldn’t this be mitigated by having something like a “this user used to be xyz@uvw” tag on their profile, which (being managed by the receiving instance) would not be something the source server or user have power over, and that way you can still see if they came from a cheap gibberish domain.
Yes
Neither do I but it is what it is.
Same thing with email servers. I could create my own email server and fake entire conversation with anyone in my inbox/sent folders but I can’t do it on a server I don’t control like gmail.
It’s a good idea but it would need to support multiple migrations. (user x migrated from a@instance migrated from b@instance migrated from c@instance …)
Yes, that’s possible… but at the same time… I don’t think anyone or anything (at least to my knowledge) cares about account age or “contributions” like if this were reddit or Facebook or something. I could be wrong though and just haven’t noticed it.
Personally, when I see someone post something that seems out of place or doesnt sound like a good faith argument, I’ll check their account to see how old the account is and what else they have posted.
To me, that does matter as it shows whether they contribute or how they contribute to Lemmy and for how long. If they make a new account and immediately start posting garbage or AI slop, I block them.
If they have opinions I disagree with but still try to make a sound argument, thats fine. I take issue with spam and people who just troll, not with people who post because they want to discuss things even if we differ in views or beliefs. I don’t want an echo chamber yknow?
Thats all just my opinion and what ive seen since joining Lemmy for the past 3 years.
I get that, but in my opinion that is the bar for anyone regardless of account age; AI slop, bad faith arguing, general dickheaded behavior gets a block regardless of contributions or account age.
Fair point, I guess I meant that account age is also a factor when determining whether to block someone or not or if they’re just joking or being a dick.
It factors in because if its a pattern, it makes more sense to block them. If not, maybe they had a bad day or the tone of what they meant was off.
Hell maybe I misunderstood what they meant.
That makes sense, and probably a better method in the long run.