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  • These are some concerns I’ve had too, but I think there’s progress being made.

    Currently, it seems for the account migration/duplication is a self hosted effort but something that I’ve been looking into making a site for.

    As for the long term viability of these instances, I would say it’s pretty rare that a bigger instance run by good admins go down frequently. The costs aren’t usually that high and can be managed fairly easily. From what I’ve seen, these instances are usually donation-based “monetization” so if no one donates its on the instance owner to eat the costs. In theory, one could make some sort of membership based instance, but I haven’t seen anything like that. I’ve seen discussions that if an instance was to start running ads that users would leave immediately… and that’s certainly their choice. It just makes it difficult if an instance is growing but does not have any contribution from the community to run the instance.

    However, when the instance that people have registered on goes down, yes, they lose their progress, comments, history, etc… there is no way to transfer that to another instance.

    Currently, there is only a way to move subscriptions, that I’m aware of.

    As for the list of instances… that should be “unique” per instance, because that is the list of instances that are federating with the instance you’re looking at. So usually it’ll show the federating and blocking instances. So as long as at least one account is subscribing to those instances from your instance, it’ll show up there. Larger instances don’t necessarily need to seed their federation, but it’s common for new instances to seed federation and to start getting material out to the rest of the Fediverse.