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r/ModCoord has officially recommended migration off of Reddit. (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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kbin.social was the first thing on the recommended list.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Instance based communities sound really interesting until it comes to the matter of an instance needing to be shut down. I hope the portability factor of Lemmy gets better, because that's an easy way to lose tons of valuable informarion.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The information won't necessarily be lost, because most/all? the instances that were previously federated with the shut-down instance should have cached copies of its activity. Not sure on what scale, or how far back, content caching will be, but I imagine admins have (or should have) the ability to configure that sort of thing

Now, from the perspective of a user looking to migrate to a new platform, not being able to "take it with you" is a valid concern. Mastodon seems to have account export nailed down, but lemmy/kbin are still pretty new and might need time to implement something like this