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

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.

  • irelephant [he/him]🍭English
    10•1 month ago

    Sounds good, but maybe consider moving it to a non-piefed.social piefed instance.

    I’m slightly scared of another kbin.social happening.

      • irelephant [he/him]🍭English
        10•1 month ago

        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.

      • Blaze (he/him)English
        4•1 month ago

        Preferred social is a test instance for the API, it’s not supposed to be publicly used

      • Ricky RigatoniEnglish
        3•1 month ago

        If more people choose to join the smaller instances they will grow larger.

    • @dumples@midwest.socialEnglish
      1•1 month ago

      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