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Your username in the fediverse is not honorfaz, but @honorfaz@kbin.social, just as an email. It's the same for communities (or sublemmy, or whatever we decide to call it). It's not c/something, but c/something@instance.com. This is why everyone still has a unique handle, but no unique admin.
I'm on my own instance for example, running in my living room, and yet here we are, talking. Internet as it was intented.
@primalmotion so... the lemmy.antisocial.ly part of your username is your own instance that you made. And I can ping you or reply to you by writing it as @primalmotion. Interesting. My log in credentials for kbin.social will not transfer to another instance like lemmy.world, though, will it?
That's right, your credentials are unique to your instance.
so how do you move to another instance and keep all your comments?
I don't think that's possible since each instance is kind of a silo from each other with regard to your activity on that specific instance, even if you post on other instances.. Like since you made a comment/post on one instance that activity stays on that instance.
Seems reasonable I probably should have expected that to be fair
That depends. I think the migration process is part of ActivityPub and would need to be implemented in lemmy. With mastodon, you can move from instance to instance almost transparently.