I have just made my first lemmy account on lemmy.world. What happens to my account in the event that this particular instance goes offline temporarily or permanently? It seems like I will have to either wait for the instance to come back online or create a new account, is this correct?
For that matter, would it be the same for mastadon and other fediverse services?
You can export your settings every now and then from the settings. That way at least if you have to switch account you don’t start from scratch. Settings include subscriptions, and blocked instances, communities and users.
ok that’s perfect then, do you know if mastadon does the same thing?
Not sure, I think they handle things differently: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/#export