I think this feature will help keep communities alive if something goes wrong. I hope Lemmy implements this feature.
User migration as well as community migration in case of instances going into a black hole would indeed be useful features.
They are features that will inevitably materialise sooner or later. Mastodon already has tools to accommodate this need, and lemmy runs on the same protocol. No reason the same need won’t eventually be met. Both kbin and lemmy are very new. Mastodon has been a thing for a while now, in comparison.
I totally agree. Plus it’s an additional fail safe in case one instance gets too big or does something that makes people want to migrate, without losing popular communities that it might have.
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The ability to keep the same community name and just move to a different server is going to be so useful. Makes reddit look so primitive where you had to make some weird alternative name when the mods got crazy.
By clone you mean migrate? Double content will piss of Google and the users, searching for the/a new community.
Double content being shown to Google is kind of inevitable, given how Lemmy (and the Fediverse in general) works.
