As for why Piefed and not Lemmy, it’s because Piefed communities are portable. That is, if the admin proves to be awful or a server threatens to shut down, you can just move the community elsewhere.
Are they? The only thing I’ve heard about this is Piefed’s community move admin action, which is just a simple db rewrite only on the local instance.
Blaze@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Move should be better handled between Piefed instances, the case you mentioned was from a Lemmy instance to a Piefed instance
flamingos@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Unless I’m missing something in the code I linked, they’re not. All that action does is merge one community into another on the local database, nothing federates.
Blaze@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
IIRC there were discussions back when lemm.ee shutdown about allowing the community migration between Piefed instances to automatically subscribe the members of the previous community to the new one, but I don’t know how that ended
@rimu@piefed.social @Skavau@piefed.social ?
Skavau@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Well it isn't possible, and probably not ever possible to automatically redirect lemmy-based subscribers to a new community on piefed via migration. I also think lemmy users would not like that even if it was.
But Rimu did suggest he wanted it to automatically do it for piefed based users.