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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.
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.
I migrated my account from .ee in three seconds. So yes, it is one of those platforms.
It already works between Lemmy and Piefed
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/45876780
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.
Not for content but that wasn't what you asked for.
I migrated an account loooong ago and the only thing that didn't copy/transfer by themselves was my posts. Dunno how much better it has gotten since then but what "makes" the account is so far quite easily exportable and importable.