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I seem to remember some parts of the Fediverse being able to pick up your user and move to another instance? Is that Mastodon by any chance? If that's so, sounds like something Lemmy should look into.
It doesn't sound like it would be too hard, pack up your user stuff in a JSON and sign it (basically a JWT), and establish a protocol by which one instance passes the user to another. Or, even better, let the user take their JSON and import it manually into another instance – this could also double as personal backup.
I believe Mastodon has that (seem to remember seeing it when I setup my account) but I think the instance you are on has to still be alive at the time to do i so it doesn't quite address the sudden shutdown of the instance that holds your identity.
You are correct, and it's on the Lemmy roadmap as far as I know. It's just Mastodon has had a bit longer in the oven. We'll get there 😄