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 (he/him)@piefed.socialEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I had a quick look, seems like current versioning is handled by docker images, without proper versioning indeed: https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/src/branch/main/INSTALL-docker.md

    Hopefully that will be solved down the line.

    While I’m happy to move, I’m not happy to have software falsify my actions and I in no way consent to it doing so.

    Noted. I might migrate [email protected] using that feature, do you have any comments or posts there we should remove?

    You know me, I like to spread the load.

    I guess at some point I’ll probably use another instance too. Feddit.fr is tempting, but they aren’t using the latest version (I know because the title completion feature is missing). Hence my question on the Piefed Matrix chat on how updates are handled.