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
On Voyager you should see your account in the bottom middle while browsing. For you, it should say “lemmy.world” underneath an icon of a person. Tap it once to see your inbox, posts, etc. Tap the same icon again and you get a list of accounts. You’ll probably only see one. Tap edit to add a new one, then tap + and follow the prompts.
You use that same icon, again tapping twice, to switch accounts.