Context: I tried to use the Piefed migration feature to migrate [email protected] to [email protected]

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/[email protected]), 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.

  • FrostyTrichs@crazypeople.onlineEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Disclaimer: I’m not trying to discourage people from moving to or using piefed. I understand the enthusiasm for it and utility of it. This is meant to foster discussion not hate on piefed.

    Is it just me or are a lot of people just ignoring the fact that a lot of communities and people are centralizing to pretty much a single point of failure again? Wouldn’t it be wise to expand the number of piefed instances to help keep things spread out there too if that’s the platform you prefer?

  • squirrel@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Where is piefed.social hosted? A whois lookup only shows cloudflare, which is a US company.

    Before moving european communities there, this should be clarified.