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Federated profile/configuration possible?

I am a reddit refugee just discovering lemmy and exploring for the first time. However one thing I noticed quickly was the stress instance are experiencing.

With the great reddit exodus and the influx of new users onto lemmy instances that may not be prepared.

Is there a way to deal with instances going offline (even if just temporarly) but still accessing a single profile, subscription list, configuration, possibly even inbox contents?

Perhaps there is a third party tool that can be self hosted to keep multiple profiles on different instances in sync?

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  • The best peace of mind is to run your own instance, but it takes a bit of tech know how. But then at least you know it will never shut down. :)

    Alternatively, sign up for smaller instances that you think will remain. There is no reason to use the most used instance when it's a distributed system.

  • You could host your own Lemmy instance, I think that would do what you want.

  • The thing I'm seeing issue with is the expense of a cloud server and domain just for a single instance. If the possibility were made available to connect a raspberry pi to my network and offload my posts/images/videos/profile onto my own network by secure proxy, I'd do it, or maybe just some kind of mirror that I could port to another instance if the original goes down.