Fediverse

Would love for this to be a feature someday. It'd be hugely useful in a situation where an instance is closing down that has popular communities which would like to continue on elsewhere, that way all the content can carry over (including previous posts and existing subscribers/moderators), rather than having to start over from scratch every time.

IMO, both community and profile migrations, while not strictly necessary at the moment, are going to be crucial for the continuing success of lemmy/kbin in the future.

It's been opened on the github already, along with user account migration.

Mastodon already has user migration, so it might not be far off for lemmy

You can move a community, but you really have to know which heart strings to tug on.

I don’t think there is such a feature. Best thing you can do is tell everyone to move elsewhere. I’d love to be proven wrong though

Unfortunately, this is not a feature (yet). Only thing you can do is to shut off the community by making it mod-post only and then have a stickied post in it. I did that when I moved fossdroid from lemmy.ml to my own instance.

Also, with the admins of lemmy.ml (who are also the main developers of Lemmy) being tankies, yet so many people are on there, I believe that apparently, most people don't really care.

Eventually it should be possible to do so. Mastodon allows migrating accounts and a Lemmy community is ultimately an "actor" under the ActivityPub protocol, just like any other Mastodon account.

Related question: do you need to create a new account for every instance you try to use? How does this stuff work?

I have a feeling we'll be seeing 3rd party software that addresses this particular need. It is probably not particularly high-priority atm though.

sorry this scene just came to mind