• LCP@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    I’m not going to pretend the data is safe—it will disappear eventually.

    That’s what’s valuable, yeah. Lots of great posts that I don’t want to be lost.

    But, it’s not like we lost everything that was produced in that community overnight, even with the server going offline.

    Fair.

    I did create a list of all posts submitted to !spotifyplaylists@lemm.ee at !spotifyplaylists@lemmy.world so that all those valuable posts are not lost.

  • WatDabney@fedia.io
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    9 hours ago

    What it meant to me was that I had to unpin the link to my lemm.ee account from my Firefox home page.

    It could’ve been the case that I would’ve had one less instance to choose from, but in the aftermath of the announcement, I found two new instances I wanted to try, so I’m actually one ahead in the long run.

    And that’s it.

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    13 hours ago

    But here’s a bonus feature: many platforms allow you to easily migrate your account to a new instance.

    But Lemmy isn’t one of those platforms. Right?

    Generally I agree with the article that the shutdown of lemm.ee isn’t a big deal. It sucks for sure, but the Fediverse survives.

    Personally I don’t care about account migration. Export/import works fine, but I get that it’s a little clunky for some.

    Community migration is something that I think is more important and as I understand PieFed handles this. Hopefully Lemmy will someday and even better between Lemmy & PieFed.

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      3 hours ago

      It doesnt mean anything but its good to get these kind of practices while Lemmy is still small. It seems the.migration process has come along way since 2 years ago.

      Hopefully one day we can copy and pay entire threads and comments into the new community or have 100% transfer.

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      9 hours ago

      Lemmy allows a user to export their subscriptions, blocks, and saved posts /comments in a JSON file from their account settings page.

      That file can then be imported into a new account on any other Lemmy (and even Piefed) instance.