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[Meta] Would you all be okay to give the Piedfed migration feature a try? (lemm.ee)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by Blaze@lemm.ee to c/casualconversation@lemm.ee
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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.

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[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 points 1 day ago

Wait, Piefed migration doesn't just work from Piefed to Piefed, but even from Lemmy into Piefed?

[-] tal@lemmy.today 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[-] Blaze@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] Secret_Music@crazypeople.online 17 points 2 days ago

With this community migration feature, Piefed seems like the sensible choice every time a community needs to move now.

[-] LadyButterfly@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

100% agree

[-] Irelephant@lemm.ee 10 points 1 day ago

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

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

[-] LadyButterfly@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

What happened with kbin?

[-] Irelephant@lemm.ee 10 points 1 day 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.

[-] LadyButterfly@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Ah I see. I guess lemmys kinda like emails some domains just go to shit and shut down.

[-] zabadoh@ani.social 3 points 1 day ago

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

[-] Blaze@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago

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

[-] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 3 points 1 day ago

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

[-] dumples@midwest.social 1 points 1 day 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

[-] Irelephant@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

kbin lives on as mbin.

Check kbin.earth, for example.

[-] dumples@midwest.social 2 points 1 day ago

I am debating getting another account in kbin.earth or piedfed.social. Its always good to try out different instances.

[-] Irelephant@lemm.ee 1 points 23 hours ago

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.

[-] Bags@piefed.social 10 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] moodymellodrone@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

Same here, I already have a Piefed account. It’s nice. Just not using it because I’d rather use Voyager lol

[-] LadyButterfly@lazysoci.al 8 points 2 days ago

I'm 100% behind you just let me know what you need me to do

[-] Nemo@midwest.social 7 points 2 days ago

Do it

do it do it doooo it

[-] Blaze@piefed.social 5 points 2 days ago

Ha ha ha

[-] nemo@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago

I myself have migrated, as a show of solidarity!

[-] Blaze@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago

Welcome!

[-] simple@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago

Let's do it. Seems like the right time to give it a try.

[-] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 3 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

Works for me!

[-] jet@hackertalks.com 2 points 2 days ago

What have we got to lose?

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