Hey All,
I’m an (old 😉) IT guy, very excited by the #fediverse and trying to find my way amongst various services.
As an example, I started gathering topics I like on a Lemmy account. Then, I got tempted to create different accounts on smaller instances and try out kbin.
I’d love that my « subscriptions » follow me, so that I don’t have to scan all my « magazines » and re-register from everywhere.
Can someone kindly help me on how I can achieve that? Apologies if the question is naive, but given the decentralised nature of those services, shouldn’t each user have a « local » trace of what they follow (for example on a local app), no matter the service, so that they get « their view », their « window » on the #fediverse?
Many thanks for the #fedihelp and again my apologies for the probably basic questions!
I’ve got a few questions from this then:
Does this mean one account on any kbin instance, one account for peertube, one for mastodon? 3 accounts? Can I have one account across services?
If l self-host each of these services and have it locked to just me, and then post from my own server instance to other instances, who stores that post data? Does it reside on my server? If I shut it down, do my posts disappear or show [deleted] like Reddit did? If the posts remain because they’re also stored by the other instance, what happens if both are shut down?