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/fedigrow@lemm.ee would become https://piefed.social/c/fedigrow , with all the existing posts and comments
- you all would subscribe to the new !fedigrow@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 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.
I as a Lemmy.World user would be able to subscribe just the same, right? It’s all just fediverse connectivity? Or does it need to be a Lemmy community specifically for me to do that?
Yes, you would be able to interact the same way. You can see !casualeurope@piefed.social and !lego@piefed.social as an example.
Ah, that’s what I thought. In that case, I’m good with the move.
I mean, my preference is that lemm.ee stayed alive, but, what are ya gonna do?
I would suggest lemmy.zip as a Lemmy instance to migrate this community too.
Admins are very transparent (https://lemmy.zip/post/39959863), the instance has a good track record and monitoring dashboard (https://status.lemmy.zip/)
As !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com is already on dbzer0, that would allow to spread the “meta” communities a bit on different instances.
It blocks UK though right.
Be a shame if UK people can’t see this useful comm.
I would be fine with a Piefed community.
I am assuming this refers to Fedigrow, right? Not casualconversation?
Well spotted, I was lazy and just copy pasted from the other community, editing now
This sounds good yeah.
There are valuable posts on this community it would be cool if they got transferred over with the piefed migration feature.
Is there a recommended way for other instances to load the old posts that were added in the new community? Right now we only see the new content that is on !barcelona@piefed.social (2 posts)
