From what I’ve seen, it doesn’t seem to be a great process and requires an account from the instance you want to transfer to, to have been subscribed since the beginning. It also doesn’t seem to transfer comments or anything.

I’m thinking about how I want to approach this. I might honestly move to a mastodon, or bluesky setup, with a couple of YouTube playlists. I have no idea. I honestly didn’t see the notice for my instance shutting down until I saw your comment, so kind of running through the options. I’ll likely make a local backup of the pages, so I don’t lose what was posted and maybe manually start posting everything wherever I decide to go. I’m going to make a community post soon in my communities, but I need to nail down where I’m going first.

Truly appreciate the heads up. I have no idea how I didn’t see this in my feed the past few days.

Gotcha, it’s all good. I’m sure adultswim.fan will be happy to have some more users. Hopefully our community will appreciate the more active community. Thanks for moderating with me!

I’ve been around still, mostly just lurking for a couple of minutes at a time. With Lemm.ee shutting down, I have no problem with that. You can fully take over this community.

From the text you replied to:

Admittedly, this isn’t always the case

I believe you’re looking for a debate, where I was wanting discussion. Take care.

I love open source in an ethical sense, and I use it to meet all of my media and storage needs. Even my operating system is open source. However, as a consumer, I also value having the best possible experience. Companies can provide better and more refined experiences in many ways, often by leveraging their deep pockets.

I don’t mind paying for services that offer great value or save me time. The problem that most companies face, though, is that I expect them to respect both me and my privacy.

If we were to eliminate privacy infringements from proprietary software and make it open source, it would often become best-in-class within the open source community (e.g., Photoshop, Microsoft Office, etc.). Admittedly, this isn’t always the case, but all of this is to say that there can be arguments in favor of providing a service that respects the end user and their privacy, which warrants further discussion.

If it wasn’t Meta, I would almost be okay with this. If I genuinely believed that my privacy was being preserved, I think it’d be a fair trade.