I am a reddit refugee just discovering lemmy and exploring for the first time. However one thing I noticed quickly was the stress instance are experiencing.
With the great reddit exodus and the influx of new users onto lemmy instances that may not be prepared.
Is there a way to deal with instances going offline (even if just temporarly) but still accessing a single profile, subscription list, configuration, possibly even inbox contents?
Perhaps there is a third party tool that can be self hosted to keep multiple profiles on different instances in sync?
The best peace of mind is to run your own instance, but it takes a bit of tech know how. But then at least you know it will never shut down. :)
Alternatively, sign up for smaller instances that you think will remain. There is no reason to use the most used instance when it’s a distributed system.