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[Meta] Would you all be okay to give the Piedfed migration feature a try? If you prefer a Lemmy instances, which ones would they be? (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 one caveat is that from Lemmy instances, the community doesn’t have show old posts (see https://lemm.ee/c/barcelona@piefed.social), but if you were restarting a community from scratch you wouldn’t have access to your old posts anyway.

Other federated instances like feddit.online would also see the posts and comments on the new community: https://feddit.online/c/barcelona@piefed.social

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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[–] rglullis 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not in favor.

[–] Blaze@lemm.ee 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Could you please elaborate why?

[–] rglullis 6 points 2 days ago (3 children)

PieFed has the tendency to add features that are are not compatible with ActivityPub in general (flairs, multi-communities) and I am not convinced it is ready to have a large influx of activity. It's one thing to have a server with lots of users receiving notifications, it's another to have the same server also responsible in sending a large number of notifications whenever it needs to announce a new comment or post.

[–] Blaze@lemm.ee 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

flairs

Small question about the flairs: is there another example of flairs implementation on other Fediverse software? My guess was that as Lemmy/Mbin and Piefed are the only Reddit clones in the Fediverse, then there would be no existing implementation of flairs anywhere else in other Fediverse apps, but I'm probably missing something.

[–] rglullis 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The annoying thing about it is that their implementation is completely "top-down". They just defined what is their idea of "Flair" (text/color settings) and have this stored in their database. It is completely disconnected from any of ActivityStreams or LinkedData concepts. If they had gone with a "protocol-first" approach, they could've proposed to use as:Tag or even Schema.org PropertyValue entries, attach them to the object (actor/questio/post/note) and it would be absolutely easy to federate.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 days ago

@rimu@piefed.social, could that be a potential rework in the future?

[–] Blaze@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago

Fair. I'll edit the title so that people can also suggest the instances they would like to move this community to.

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I am not convinced it is ready to have a large influx of activity

this community is not what I would call a large amount of activity

[–] rglullis 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah, but there are several other communities talking about moving to piefed.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

Valid point