Presentation of the feature: https://piefed.social/post/667045

Example of successful migration: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/45876492

Our next step would be to give this feature a try. What would basically happen is that

Should the migration not work, we would still be able to use the current community, and then manually migrate elsewhere.

The one caveat is that from Lemmy instances, the community doesn’t have show old posts (see https://lemm.ee/c/[email protected]), but if you were restarting a community from scratch you wouldn’t have access to your old posts anyway.

Other federated instances like feddit.online would also see the posts and comments on the new community: https://feddit.online/c/[email protected]

The objective of this post is to address any questions or issues before we move forward. We are probably going to leave it open for 48 hours, and then reassess based on the community feedback.

  • Blaze@lemm.eeOPMEnglish
    5·
    3 days ago

    flairs

    Small question about the flairs: is there another example of flairs implementation on other Fediverse software? My guess was that as Lemmy/Mbin and Piefed are the only Reddit clones in the Fediverse, then there would be no existing implementation of flairs anywhere else in other Fediverse apps, but I’m probably missing something.

    • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
      7·
      3 days ago

      The annoying thing about it is that their implementation is completely “top-down”. They just defined what is their idea of “Flair” (text/color settings) and have this stored in their database. It is completely disconnected from any of ActivityStreams or LinkedData concepts. If they had gone with a “protocol-first” approach, they could’ve proposed to use as:Tag or even Schema.org PropertyValue entries, attach them to the object (actor/questio/post/note) and it would be absolutely easy to federate.