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.
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.
Direct link to the article: https://sebastian.lauwe.rs/blog/lemmee-shutting-down/
From what I’ve seen, it means a bunch of bitching.
This is the history of mankind summarized succinctly.
Probably a good article to share to people skeptical about the resiliency of the Threadiverse
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.
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.
even better between Lemmy & PieFed.
It already works between Lemmy and Piefed
I migrated my account from .ee in three seconds. So yes, it is one of those platforms.
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.