sure you can just make a new one, but all of your old posts and comments won’t show up. Not to mention your DMs too
it seems kinda counterproductive to the goal of lemmy being federation where you can just move to another instance if yours gets bought by Elon or an admin goes corrupt, but it’s not made simple to do that.
I’ve seen many people be on lemmy.ml that would switch but they’ve been using it since the start of lemmy and they don’t wanna restart
I know mastodon has a little “hey this user has moved to @user@newinstance” popup but that’s not really that elegant either
You can migrate accounts over Mastodon instances, I don’t know why is not something similar implemented in Lemmy.
It seem you can transfer your followers to the new account, but I don’t see anything about it actually transferring your past posts. So it seems to be quite similar to lemmy.
Yeah, I’ve moved Mastodon accounts several times, and no toots transfer at all. It’s manual or nothing