• NoRodent@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Ok, but what if the instance I choose just ends suddenly? Do I understand it correctly that on each one I have to create a new account and re-subscribe to all the communities etc,?

    • Coelacanth@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      That’s correct though account migration is planned for some point in the future, or at least noted as a desirable feature by the Devs. Maybe even linking accounts across instances?

      Having to resubscribe to all your communities is annoying but I imagine third party apps could streamline that process when they get released/refined.

    • Altair@vlemmy.net
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      1 year ago

      Aside from what Coelacanth said, those instances are no more likely to shut down than lemmy.world (I can’t recall a Lemmy instance that’s not for personal use ever shutting down); they’ve functioned just fine for years and have even been upgraded for the surge of users too

      • HuntressHimbo@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        Lemmy.fmhy.ml shutdown and hasnt come back yet. My understanding is that it won’t be back, but that was the instance I signed up for initially to spread the server load

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      1 year ago

      well this just happened with vlemmy.net, i was affected by this and had to manually resubscribe to 50 communities and recreate one, because of this someone made a tool to download your data off of lemmy and upload it to another instance https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim