Yeah, unfortunately that egotistic extreme response is prevalent and encouraged in current affairs.

There is a Lemmy Account Settings Instance Migrator tool:

https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim

Thanks @esty@lemmy.ca ! The export worked well (ran LASIM on Windows), and the JSON file contains my followed communities and profile settings. Wish I had this prior to the Vlemmy outage 🤕