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If everyone was spread out onto different instances, and communities were based all over the fediverse, the decisions of one instance would be less impactful.
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Wouldn't be much of a problem if you could export account to a file
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
https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim
Can you get the file into another server ?
Yes
That only exports settings and subscriptions, I think what they're talking about is a solution that allows you to migrate everything including your ownership of the posts and comments that you made.
It's definitely better than nothing but it's probably not what they are looking for, hopefully we'll get a true account migration system soon.
(if) till such feature comes, you can always link to your old account from the bio. Can't think of any other solutions.