It sure is and it impacts your experience as a user, which is literally what UX stands for.

We do need migration though.

And btw you start by saying “software is software” and then go on giving examples why it’s is not that simple.

What we need is co-directional migration between Lemmy and PieFed. I need this for my instance, but having it for users is an important first step.

This is about the official codebase, both server/website and app. Anyone could fork it, but si far the original remains the most used service by far.