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[โ€“] rmuk@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mastodon allows you to transfer accounts between instances and IIRC there a feature in the Lemmy roadmap that will allow you to do the same for accounts and communities. Can't happen soon enough.

Judging from this issue

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/12423

It is not fixed. I think you lose your history and relationships in the current barebone migration functionality.

If this were fixed, the sign up process could be streamlined and users could be stuffed in any random open instance without fear they'll be caught there and lose their identity when the instance owner turns out to be a dick