Comment on I just migrated a community from Lemmy to Piefed using the migration feature, it worked quite well

• FrostyTrichs@crazypeople.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  At this moment, 9 out of the 10 most active communities are on LW: lemmyverse.net/communities?order=active

  You have to scroll 3 times to see !television@lemm.ee, the first Lemm.ee community.

  Lemm.ee was already a decentralization factor from LW, but it was still tiny in terms of communities compared to LW. Moving all of the Lemm.ee communities to Piefed.social (not that it’s the case anyway, I’ve seen communities moving elsewhere) would keep the status quo that we were all living with.

  Of course ideally over time more Piefed instances emerge, and we can spread a bit more. Also, thanks to the Piefed migration feature, we’ll be able to move communities much smoother (even including subscribers).

  Right, I’ve seen pretty much that same reply already.

  I think it’s a chance to learn a lesson from how and why lemm.ee is shutting down. Right now I think people are risking moving the same problem somewhere else. Sure, in theory the problem gets better with time because the tools to move around are there, but that only matters if there’s somewhere to move.

  It would be much more encouraging to see dozens of new piefed instances being launched/advertised. I think there’s a big push towards something new because it’s in the right place at the right time, and I genuinely hope it’s a successful project long term. I just hope the people utilizing it are willing to support it as a platform and not just as a flagship instance.

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  • Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The one constraint we have is time. Lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of the months. Some of the polls will take a few days, then depending on the communities, it will take a few more days for the migrations to happen, but we can’t wait for dozens of new instances to pop up.

    Using a diverse set of Piefed instances is indeed better, and hopefully that what we’ll try to achieve down the line.

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    • FrostyTrichs@crazypeople.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I think the urgency is being blown out of proportion as a knee jerk to really crappy news. There is almost a month to move, which should be plenty of time for new instances to launch and communities to disperse. Even after the shutdown the rest of the fediverse will be able to redirect users to the new communities, wherever they are homed.

      Again, I’m not against piefed or against people moving somewhere they feel more comfortable or like more. Those are positive things that the fediverse could definitely use. I just don’t understand why we can’t learn the lesson and move on instead of moving on and hoping it doesn’t happen again before more instances pop up.

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      • Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        which should be plenty of time for new instances to launch and communities to disperse.

        I mod a few communities, I can tell you I want this to be over as soon as possible. I’m busy in the coming weekends, and if there’s something I’ve learned about the Fediverse, is that usually, if you want something to be done, you do it yourself.

        Even after the shutdown the rest of the fediverse will be able to redirect users to the new communities, wherever they are homed.

        The Piefed migration feature requires lemm.ee to be up if members want to get all of their communities content (post and comments).

        I just don’t understand why we can’t learn the lesson and move on instead of moving on and hoping it doesn’t happen again before more instances pop up.

        I’ve seen quite a few communities move to sopuli (a few communities I mod are voting for that one as well). It’s not like everyone is moving to Piefed, some communities are, others aren’t.

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