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To discuss how to grow and manage communities / magazines on Lemmy, Mbin, Piefed and Sublinks
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You pick a piefed server and create an account there. You can transfer subscriptions, but that is not something i have done. Your content posted by your .world account stays with that account however.
As someone who had to jump ship more than 3 times, I keep saying to think of their accounts as disposable because we don't know if we picked right or when/if the mods/admins/hosts will go crazy.
I started on .world and quickly realized I wanted a smaller instance. So I moved to .ee and sopuli, then when .ee went down I decided to not limit myself to a single instance. I do not have as many accounts as cm02 does, 4 total I think. But only use 3 of them much.
Adding to the thread of account redundancy and backups based on personal experiences...
I started I think it was on .ml or .world, quickly found kbin.social and preferred it, it died and I didn't have a culture of backing up accounts, then I moved to lemm.ee and I kinda forgot to make a backup in the grace period before it died (oopsie) but at least had been hoarding on RSS feeds so not all was lost, then found Mbin was a thing, then found about external RSS's and searching for fediverse links for pulling external posts.
Adjacent to external RSS's, also found out when an instance goes poof, the community/group/magazine keeps propagating, just as a derelict one. So while it'd be a moderation hell, at least it's somewhat preserved.
So moral of the story, there are a few ways to back stuff up, and thus, adding to the choir, please do use them.
And an addendum, PieFed also has external RSS feeds by default, so for example, piefed.social provides their own RSS feed for !fediverse@lemmy.world.
I would recommend exporting your settings just in case. I was using an instance that kind of vanished for a week and then returned, but with my user account completely gone 😱
It's nice that you can just import your settings from a file on your own hard drive and continue from basically where you left.
I lost my piefed.ee account too. I have my subscriptions backed up manually, but it would probably be a good idea to export, then save it in Bitwarden.