Hope this relates enough to the growing of the threadiverse and is not too technical for this comm. After the closure of .ee I was wondering if there is/was some movement to be able to migrate whole communities off an instance including all its posts. Having a great resource of human made information is the main reason to be using lemmy but the possibility of it vanishing is scary.

To my understanding the posts that are hosted on the op's instance and not the one closing down can be migrated by the actor of the community "boosting" (or whatever the activity pub term is) the posts again. And for the posts hosted on the instance closing down they could have a process similar to mastodon migration, of course on their own decision.

Was this discussed elsewhere?

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[–] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 weeks ago

PieFed has a community migration feature. Basically, it can take a remote community and turn it in to a local community. The main advantage of that is that all of the old content will now be properly attached to the new community so it's not lost, but it's imperfect, because the old content doesn't automatically refederate out to show the new group and it doesn't bring subscribers over

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/45876492?scrollToComments=true