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What is something lemmy can improve upon? (midwest.social)
submitted 9 months ago by Lanky_Pomegranate530@midwest.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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[โ€“] johnyrocket@feddit.ch 24 points 9 months ago (3 children)

There NEEDS to be an account migration option, with not only settings but also my saved posts and comments, own posts and comments etc. If not possible, at least allow an export in the style of a gddpr dump from the likes of facebook etc. to allow import at a later time when implemented.

My instance is shutting down at the end of the month (~500 users) and there is no good way to export my data. I would not be surprised if some of the 500 get frustrated and stop with lemmy.

[โ€“] dessalines@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Migrating posts and comments is not possible with activitypub, as that would be rewriting history. But you could open up an issue for a user data only export, as that wouldn't be too difficult to do.

[โ€“] johnyrocket@feddit.ch 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for your reply! I looked into it and #3976 seems to be pretty much that because the "import" part of it was shot down.

I could create an issue for specifically gdpr style exports tho.

[โ€“] dessalines@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago

That'd be good, thx.

[โ€“] neutron@thelemmy.club 4 points 9 months ago

Speaking of which, a mechanism to manage posts from instances your account has previously migrated away from.