Definitely, I understand some people would not want this.
I also have backup accounts on these instances:
https://beehaw.org/u/lodion
https://sh.itjust.works/u/lodion
https://lemmy.world/u/lodion
https://lemm.ee/u/lodion
https://reddthat.com/u/lodion
Definitely, I understand some people would not want this.
By the way, upgradding to lemmy version 0.18.1 is well worth it. Some massive under the hood performance improvements 🙂
It was removed deliberately during the reddit exodus in order to direct new Lemmy users elsewhere. Rather than to overload lemmy.ml further.