Comment on Just started a community for those who wish to move away from Lemmy

• Quokka@quokk.au ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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  • Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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    • Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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  • irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So, are all the posts and stuff on your instance gone?

    Were you able to migrate the DB?

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    • Quokka@quokk.au ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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      • irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        On most fediverse softwares its near-impossible to start federating on the same domain without the same keys it had before. Lemmy is the exception.

        this explains why most of the images from quokk are broken anyway.

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• GreatBlueHeron@piefed.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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  • irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I doubt it would get shutdown, all the communities there would have to shut down.

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