Title basically. I was here at the very start of it all and really enjoyed it. However I felt it lost its uniqueness within a few months of mass migration and started turning a bit like reddit again so I deleted my old account. However Reddit has only gotten much much worse since, and Lemmy has stayed about the same. So here again.
Hated for good reason, as you point out in your second paragraph partly for tankies and China/Russo propaganda bots.
Though it raises a question for cases like yours: is account migration to another instance possible?
My understanding is you can’t migrate posts and comments, but you can migrate subscriptions and blocks. I’ve done it to both Lemmy and Piefed instances.
i make the mistake of commenting in a .ml thread yesterday and I got like 30 replies telling me what an idiot I am for not thinking the USA is the great Satan and how it is a ‘puppet regime’ that will soon fall apart before the MIGHT of Iran, Russia, and China.
it was insane.
haha yeah, been there. They’re swarming with either human or computer Pro-Russian/China bots and venture out oftentimes to spread more propaganda.
Do you think it’s fair to ask someone to migrate their account just because you hate pro-China and/or pro-Russia bots, assuming they exist?
Yes. It’s the same reason I migrated my party banner from Republicans to Democrats over the decades. No longer wanted to be associated with the prevailing winds of those coalescing beneath it.
But also, I didn’t ask them to move; rather, I posited the question of whether or not they could.
Well, good luck asking for it.