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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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[–] iso@lemy.lol 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It doesn't seem like a great feature if it only moves the post history to the imported instance and not to any other instances.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 days ago

It also imported the posts to https://feddit.online/c/barcelona@piefed.social , so not only to one instance.

It stays a Piefed feature, but it's not limited to a single instance.

Beyond that, it's better than nothing? The choice is basically between

  • starting a new community from scratch without any post
  • starting a community with existing post and comments for the new instance and federated Piefed instances

It's not like there is an alternative that would work better.