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What happens if an instance is deleted to its communities and users?
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I can't speak about kbin & Lemmy, however for Mastodon and Calckey there is a feature to export your user data and posts. You can then retain these for reference. Currently there is no ability to import them to a new instance -- the technical reason for this is beyond me, but I believe it's related to the UID of the posts as it is shared across the Fediverse.
People are working on solutions, and I have tested one which works well for Mastodon.
It's very important to have the ability to extract your own data and move