Ya, never trust US companies. Their government’s crazy to jump in and take anything they want; you may not even know they took it.

On the flipside, the belief that someone with a formal education is somehow beneath you or brainwashed for it.

I agree. Even if it just means exporting your settings and subscriptions as a JSON and importing it elsewhere. Mastodon has a more “proper” migration feature that would work better for communities, but I’m not sure how well that’d scale to Lemmy which has much more posts per community than Mastodon will per user.

There is no community migration feature to Lemmy and I don’t foresee that being feasible in the near future. Same with personal profiles.