sopuli.xyz has been around for years so it should survive

i think this is bring worked on, but in the meantime, you can still transfer subscribed communities with lemmy migrate

This seems to be a serious downside to this system. Anyone who values a persistent profile is putting their precious data in the hands of some random instance that may or may not go bust in the near or (perhaps worse) distant future.

Isn't this the downside to any system reliant on remote operators?

For any truly valuable data, the solutions remain the same, keep local copies, create backups, and store some backups offsite. As-is it seems like perhaps too many people rely strictly on offsite solutions as their singular data store, which is as bad practice as only having local backups, tbh.

I hope you're donating

Why would one need a persistent profile though? This isn't Mastodon, here accounts are throwaway, just like on Reddit

You bet, LW ain't going anywhere.

Mr manager 🫡