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Possibly a future feature? The Internet's history is, after all, littered with the refuse of failed communities. It would be sad for Lemmy to hasten that issue. It would also help communities graduate from attaching to another instance to being their own instance if there was a social split (e.g. moderation decisions) or they outgrew their host instance.
Also this is one of the most important feature (for me) on the fediverse. If an instance "goes bad" it's good transfer all on other istance. By the way my question was in this topic because i already have 100followers on my community and this is one of the reason can't open another istance if i can't import all the followers.
That is actually a very good point, i never thought about it in that way. The main question about this is probably how it should work from a UX perspective. One way would be to have a mod action which changes the subscription of all users to the new community. But there would be a risk that a hacker could target mod accounts, to redirect users to his own community/instance for malicious purposes. We could send a notification to users to inform them about the change. And the old community might have to be locked or deleted (permanently or reversible?)
cc @dessalines@lemmy.ml
Yes, on Mastodon there is an "export" and "import" settings for the followers (not for the post): https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/ and on the old istance remain just a placeholder that redirect on new profile/instances.
I'm glad the idea is of your interest :)