submitted 1 year ago by favrion@lemmy.ml to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml

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Why do the instances keep going down? It makes me think that this is not a reliable social network, but the alternatives are not as good.

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[-] lightsecond@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

In the Fediverse it isn’t possible to reserve your username. I could host a server and get something like favrion@lemmy.account so it’s unreasonable to expect that users keep the same username across instances. Reddit is more anonymous than Facebook. The Fediverse is more anonymous than Reddit.