User accounts are fragmented and just because you signed on at lemmy.world doesn’t mean your account exists on lemmy.ca.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1985

Communities are fragmented and /c/games on lemmy.world is completely different than the one on lemmy.ml with its own users, set of posts, etc.

Lemmy does not currently allow for instance or user migration.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3057

Nor does it allow for shared communities (ie the aforementioned /c/games is unified across multiple instances)

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3100

We are in the early days. If you’re eager feel free to join in the development on these any many other core issues. There’s real potential here.

  • itadakimasu@programming.dev
    131·
    1 year ago

    I swear upvote counts are isolated to individual instances too. I don’t think they are supposed to be… But one post on Lemmy.world viewed from Lemmy.world shows hundreds of upvotes, but on another smaller instance it shows 5 upvotes.

    I hope that’s not the way Lemmy is intended to work.

    It makes no sense at all

    • andrew@radiation.party
      15·
      1 year ago

      This can happen if federation breaks for a while, I think. For instance, if a lemmy instance goes down and can’t receive activity for a time, I don’t think there’s any mechanism to backfill that activity

      • Tefinite Dev@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        I feel like the Reddit migration is really putting the protocol to the test. There’s no load balancing so if your instance goes down you’re kinda screwed

        • DrWeevilJammer@lm.rdbt.no
          1·
          1 year ago

          An individual instance can be load balanced pretty easily, but that’s on the admin of that instance to implement.