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.
With this community migration feature, Piefed seems like the sensible choice every time a community needs to move now.
100% agree
Same here, I already have a Piefed account. It’s nice. Just not using it because I’d rather use Voyager lol
Sounds good, but maybe consider moving it to a non-piefed.social piefed instance.
I’m slightly scared of another kbin.social happening.
What happened with kbin?
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.
Ah I see. I guess lemmys kinda like emails some domains just go to shit and shut down.
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
Preferred social is a test instance for the API, it’s not supposed to be publicly used
If more people choose to join the smaller instances they will grow larger.
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
kbin lives on as mbin.
Check kbin.earth, for example.
I am debating getting another account in kbin.earth or piedfed.social. Its always good to try out different instances.
I’d say just try it, it’s only a few minutes of your time, and if you don’t like it you can delete the accounts.
I’m 100% behind you just let me know what you need me to do
Do it
do it do it doooo it
Ha ha ha
I myself have migrated, as a show of solidarity!
Welcome!
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.
I’ve been using Piefed for the last few weeks as my daily driver, no issue so far.
flair
Lemmy doesn’t show flairs anyway, so no community can reliably use them, they’re just accessory “nice labels” at the moment.
This seems like a good idea to me.
PieFed is getting some deserved attention due to these recent events. I had already been considering spinning up a PieFed instance but didn’t want to bother the 9 or 10 MAU on our Lemmy instance with a migration, but maybe I should ride this wave and get us all on something a bit more mature.
Wait, Piefed migration doesn’t just work from Piefed to Piefed, but even from Lemmy into Piefed?
Let’s do it. Seems like the right time to give it a try.
What have we got to lose?
Our jar?
/Lister, Red Dwarf.
Works for me!
