I run a few groups, like @fediversenews@venera.social, mostly on Friendica. It’s okay, but Friendica resembles Facebook Groups more than Reddit. I also like the moderation options that Lemmy has.
Currently, I’m testing jerboa, which is an Android client for Lemmy. It’s in alpha, has a few hiccups, but it’s coming along nicely.
Personally, I hope the #RedditMigration spurs adoption of more Fediverse server software. And I hope Mastodon users continue to interact with Lemmy and Kbin.
All that said, as a mod of a Reddit community (r/Sizz) I somewhat regret giving Reddit all that content. They have nerve charging so much for API access!
Hopefully, we can build a better version of social media that focuses on protocols, not platforms.
That’s not moving your identity though, that’s creating a new identity that subscribes to the same communities. There’s an important distinction there, there’s no way to clearly identify yourself as you having moved, which conversely also means there’s no way to be assured that some other account is not an impersonator.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s good to know that if a server were to disappear that I could just create an account on another one but it’s still a distinction that causes some issues today that will need to be ironed out in future.
Depends on how we define an identity… the dataset doesn’t move (would be a great feature if that gets added similar to Mastodon and others, but we have to appreciate Lemmy is young and developed entirely by volunteers) but “you” do.
Regardless it’s still a significant conceptual improvement over Reddit where you’re either there on the centralised service or you’re not there at all.
I think you’ve some valuable insights though, and would genuinely encourage you to get involved in their GitHub. If you can code, and have time to offer, you can even start to build the functionality. If not you can raise the question or check for it already being and add your comments to it to make the use-case :)
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy