Migrating communities in the wake of the lemm.ee shutdown

Submitted ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨tad_lispy@lemm.ee⁩ to ⁨fediverse@lemmy.world⁩

I’m a happy lemm.ee user and a mod of a small community hosted there. I’m also subscribed to a bunch of communities on lemm.ee. Sadly, they have just announced that they will be shutting it down. I understand that I can open an account on another instance and subscribe to the same communities. For my own community, I can probably re-create it on my new instance and DM every subscriber. But how do I find all the communities from lemm.ee in their new places? I’d like some practical advice.

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MemmingenFan923@feddit.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
There is now a Migration Mega Thread:

piefed.social/post/838399

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rglullis@communick.news ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The following communities have already an alternative on instances that I run:

!television@lemm.ee -> !television@metacritics.zone

!movies@lemm.ee -> !movies@metacritics.zone

!artporn@lemm.ee -> !artporn@sfw.community

!football@lemm.ee -> !football@soccer.forum

!keytrucks@lemm.ee -> !keytrucks@gearhead.town

All these instances have been running for close to two years and are part of the “topic-specific” network of servers that I set up to help during the migration.
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- MemmingenFan923@feddit.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  There is now a Migration Mega Thread:
  
  piefed.social/post/838399
  
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- Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  !Television@lemm.ee, !movies@lemm.ee and !Football@lemm.ee have pinned post where the community members can vote where they want to go.
  
  At the moment, for !television and !movies, sopuli.xyz is the proposition with the most votes.
  
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  - rglullis@communick.news ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Should I add an entry for metacritics or should you?
    
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don@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
As for me, while lemm.ee is home, I’ve transferred my json to lemmy.ca. Sucks dick to lose an Estonian tld because I lived there, and first surfed the w3 there decades ago, but I do respect and appreciate me some Canadians.

lemm.ee until the servers are turned off from underneath me. Eesti igavesti!

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ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Well, the managed communities will pin posts and update their descriptions before the shut down happens, and those details will federate to every instance with users that subscribe to the communities.

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Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Consider moving them to PieFed.

It's more feature rich, especially when it comes to mod tools.

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- ramble81@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Does Voyager support PieFeed?
  
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- sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Don’t do that. Spread them out.
  
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  - nokturne213@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Piefed is an alternative software to lemmy, not a specific instance.
    
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- nutomic@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Can you say which mod tools Piefed has that are missing from Lemmy?
  
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  - Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Sure here's a tour of the moderation features in PieFed
    
    https://piefed.social/post/846276
    
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  - walden@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    One that stands out to me are the optional notes above the comment box for each community.
    
    On piefed.social I’ve used this to put a note on every beehaw.org community about the ‘good vibes only’ nature of that instance and one community on lemmy.ml has a note about the unusual mostly-unwritten moderation policies employed there.
    
    I like this idea, because it would serve as a last second warning to me(and others) that I might be at risk of participating with tankies.
    
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  - astro_ray@piefed.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    No need to get jealous. Lemmy will catch up eventually. /j
    
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  - iso@lemy.lol ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Yeah I don’t get this argument either. The user reports content and I can see it, no matter which instance they’re using. Does Piefed have a fully automatic autobot that fights spammers and we don’t know about it? :)
    
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gigachad@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Usually the community mods should pin a post with the new link. In small communities it might be worth to contact the moderator directly to bring the shutdown to their attention.

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gon@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Yeah, what Blaze said…

This is a huge pain in the ass, though… A shame they couldn’t keep Lemm.ee up…

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Blaze@piefed.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It will be a community by community discussion. I mod a few lemm.ee communities, we'll have separate polls in each of them.

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