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
Same reason it isn’t easy to transfer your Apple account to Google.
They are completely separate sites, that just happen to talk to each other.
Nonsense/disinfo. Apple and google accounts are hard to transfer because of technical differences, whereas on the fediverse they use the same format and everything.
You can’t do it on fedi because nobody’s built a mechanism to update all your content to use the new account.
Sure, it might not be completely accurate, but, it’s essentially the same idea, and should help basic understanding of the question asked.
It’s actually not a good analogy.
It gets like half the info right, that’s not a good answer. Others in the thread have done a much better job of explaining it simply and well