Interested, how do I move an instance from Lemmy to piefed?
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Quokka@quokk.au 5 days ago
We just moved our instance over to PieFed over the weekend.
If anyone is looking for a smaller PieFed instance away from the bigger players, we'd love to have you here at quokk.au.
Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 4 days ago
Quokka@quokk.au 4 days ago
At the moment, you basically have to restart it all with a fresh install of PieFed on your server.
They are working on features options to transfer over and copy the content etc, but that may be many months away still.
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
So, are all the posts and stuff on your instance gone?
Were you able to migrate the DB?
Quokka@quokk.au 2 days ago
I could have, and I still have the old Lemmy server around to do so if I wanted but it wasn’t deemed worth the effort. It was mostly world news, and who reads old news.
Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 4 days ago
So I will stick on Lemmy for the time being. After all I don’t care for down votes, I think votes in general should not be private, because this is like a public plaza what you say is public, and attaching a reputation because of down votes is dangerously bullying and a slippery slope, so piefed doesn’t actually feel like my pie at the moment.
Still maybe I will try a fresh installation just to check it out.
Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I think votes in general should not be private, because this is like a public plaza what you say is public, and attaching a reputation because of down votes is dangerously bullying and a slippery slope, so piefed doesn’t actually feel like my pie at the moment.
I agree with this, both of these things are bad on their own but together they are extremely bad. Like it encourages the same groupthink as there is on Reddit while also allowing easy vote manipulation to help yourself and hurt others. Really bad combination.
GreatBlueHeron@piefed.ca 4 days ago
I'm not a server admin., just a user. The Lemmy instance I'm on setup a Piefed instance in parallel and is giving users the option to user either or both. I'm still trying to get my head around the history and the pros/cons of each but for now it seems like I'm switching to Piefed. I imagine that if most users move then the Lemmy instance might get shutdown in the future.
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
I doubt it would get shutdown, all the communities there would have to shut down.
scytale@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
Do you know where I can see a list of piefed instances?
Quokka@quokk.au 5 days ago
Not that you would want to look any where else of course, but...
https://fedidb.com/servers
filter by software.
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
join.piefed.social has a list somewhere.
Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
piefed.fediverse.observer/list