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

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/45876492

Context: I tried to use the Piefed migration feature to migrate !barcelona@lemm.ee to !barcelona@piefed.social

https://piefed.social/c/barcelona now exists, with all the existing posts there, as well as the icon and description.

It even moved some subscribers (there are around 100 now), from what I understand those were Piefed subscribers that got automatically moved.

The one caveat is that from Lemmy instances, the community doesn't have show old posts (see https://lemm.ee/c/barcelona@piefed.social), but if you were restarting a community from scratch you wouldn't have access to your old posts anyway.

This ensure that at least the posts are transferred to a community on an active instance, which is probably the main concern for lemm.ee communities at the moment.

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perishthethought@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 1y

Thanks to @rimu from piefed.social for making this so easy!

malfisya@piefed.social · 6 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I just did the same for !solus@lemm.ee and !aerynos@lemm.ee. Now both of them are on piefed.social. Pretty seamless!

Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 1y

Well done!

malfisya@piefed.social · 2 pts · 1y

!solus@piefed.social and !aerynos@piefed.social

jet@hackertalks.com · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

One big issue is lemmy-federate won't federate a piefed.social community.

It says instance is not registered.

Now all your users will have to manually subscribe to see the community

https://hackertalks.com/post/11526378

Blaze@piefed.social · 3 pts · 1y

I know https://piefed.social/post/821909?sort=new#post_replies

Based on that comment in your thread hopefully that can be solved soon

ruud@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

Nice work. Good thing we can have communities migrated now.