Presentation of the feature: https://piefed.social/post/667045
Example of successful migration: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/45876492
Our next step would be to give this feature a try. What would basically happen is that
- we would lock our community to prevent integrity issue during the migration
- https://piefed.social/c/casualconversation@lemm.ee would become https://piefed.social/c/casualconversation , with all the existing posts and comments
- you all would subscribe to the new !casualconversation@piefed.social , and then continue as usual
Should the migration not work, we would still be able to use the current community, and then manually migrate elsewhere.
The objective of this post is to address any questions or issues before we move forward. We are probably going to leave it open for 48 hours, and then reassess based on the community feedback.
Wait, Piefed migration doesn’t just work from Piefed to Piefed, but even from Lemmy into Piefed?
Well, someone’s gotta be the guinea pig!
I have no idea what, if any, compatibility issues exist between Piefed and Lemmy instances today, as I don’t normally use any communities on instances running Piefed. Might be a good idea to ask the PieFed people or piefed.social admins about any known issues, or check the Piefed issue tracker:
https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/issues
e.g.
https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/issues/658
Mod-Assigned Post Flair is Dropped When a Lemmy Post is Edited
Like, for a community that relied heavily on post flair to make the community work, that might be a substantial issue.
Sounds good, but maybe consider moving it to a non-piefed.social piefed instance.
I’m slightly scared of another kbin.social happening.
List of known piefed instances:
https://piefed.fediverse.observer/list
.Social’s in 3 digits user numbers
feddit.online and preferred.social are in 2 digits
kbin was a lemmy compatible software.
It has all of the lemmy features, with a really nice ui and microblogging (like twitter).
kbin.social was the main instance, it had a lot of users.
The dev eventually abandoned the project, and kbin.social decayed untill it finally stopped working.
It was forked (code copied by a new group, to keep the project alive) by the mbin project.
https://kbin.earth/ is an mbin instance, for example, that’s still up.
I have nothing to add but to say that I liked kbin.social. I was thinking that everyone was being a doomer when they said it was shutting down when there was a few small problems. But they were right
I am debating getting another account in kbin.earth or piedfed.social. Its always good to try out different instances.
With this community migration feature, Piefed seems like the sensible choice every time a community needs to move now.
I already hopped to piefed! Figured I literally just started posting with my lemm.ee account yesterday, might as well move my account somewhere else asap.
I say give it a go.
