This is why I’m not really on board with the people that advocate for others to seek out and join small instances unless they are older, well established, and active.

well if we can move to another instance and migrate our saved posts, post and comments history, subscribed community easily this might drive adoption because people are used to centralized platform

From my understanding, a current goal is to make any account transferable, in case the instance the account is attached to decides to shut down/defederate?

If implemented, we can hope that won’t be tied to an instance shutdown.

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This was thrown around a couple of weeks before the Reddit migration really kicked off, it appears to be excessively difficult to code. And it also doesn’t really fit with the system that Lemmy runs. It’s a great idea, but Ive been lead to believe that it is too difficult to create Although people do feel that account transfer would be a nice feature