I would really love if this became an option, since I’m planning on making my own instance. I’d like to keep my subscriptions, posts, comments and bookmarks and migrating would be something great. What do you think?

  • Spzi@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I think a system like that would be perfectly fine here too. You don’t really need to bring all your posts over to a new profile, they’ll still be there and accessible on your old one if you need them.

    Unless the old instance goes offline forever. Your posts and comments would still exist on remote instances, but the user profile they point to is no longer accessible.

    Yes, copying subscriptions is probably the most important step, but ultimately I hope to see the ability to move everything, including history and notifications to old stuff.

    • TeaHands@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      That’s true but it’s equally true of all content you put on literally any website ever, so I figure I can choose to worry about that (in which case I guess you get into the world of exporting and scraping and backing up everything you ever contribute anywhere, which some people are really into and that’s fair!), or to not worry about that.

    • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.netEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I’m hoping it will be rare to see an instance shut down without warning. I imagine admins in most situations would make a post warning people and give them time to migrate.