Transfer community from vlemmy to new instance? (lemmy.film)

submitted 1 year ago by NENathaniel@lemmy.film to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

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As most of you may have heard, vlemmy randomly vanished.

I had started a few communities there. Is there a way to migrate them to a new instance (ideally along with their posts/subscribers/etc).

Thanks!

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[-] can@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well, it's pure speculation, but things line up. I'll try to find the links but essentially the day before it went down he posted this.

And it was hosted in his home.

So either he got in trouble or understandably got scared and decided to nuke it all.

Essentially he had a very open federation policy without being fully aware of his local laws and that led to something and we'll probably never know exactly what.

[-] maegul@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Not only that, depending on what ended up on their home machine and how scared they got, they may never want to openly acknowledge that vlemmy was theirs out of fear that something gets linked back to them. They could very well be here now posting etc without any interest in revisiting vlemmy and what ended up on their machine.

We'll never hear back from vlemmy ... and ultimately that's probably a good thing, though I hope the admin is doing ok.

this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2023

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