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I just migrated a community from Lemmy to Piefed using the migration feature, it worked quite well (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 4 days ago by Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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Context: I tried to use the Piefed migration feature to migrate !barcelona@lemm.ee to !barcelona@piefed.social

https://piefed.social/c/barcelona now exists, with all the existing posts there, as well as the icon and description.

It even moved some subscribers (there are around 100 now), from what I understand those were Piefed subscribers that got automatically moved.

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.

This ensure that at least the posts are transferred to a community on an active instance, which is probably the main concern for lemm.ee communities at the moment.

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[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yes. We were still waiting for the API (allowing app support) to come out of beta, and coincidentally it happened the same night Lemm.ee announced their shutdown.

So now quite a few Lemm.ee communities are considering moving to Piefed.

[–] cevn@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I like the idea of Piefed. Tried hosting lemmy and never got federation to work.

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 8 points 3 days ago

Yeah I was able to host Piefed for a bit. It's pretty readable.