Discussion
Is there is a smooth way to move my communities from my current piefed instance to another instance without starting from zero?
I started getting sure that .world will never update their software and I don’t want to use super outdated software.
I want to move my communities from .world piefed instance to feddit. online, is there is a way to do that without losing subscribers or posts?
Try pinging their lemmy accounts as well
You can keep the content for the most part…at least the content that has federated to the target instance already. Basically, the instance you are moving to will reassign all the posts to your new community.
However…there isn’t any way yet to make all your community’s subscribers follow along and subscribe to the new community. From their instance’s perspective, it is a brand new community, so they would need to resubscribe.
Unfortunately not.
There is a ‘Move community to X’ button, subscribers will stay on the old one.
The subscribers is the big issue. If we could automatically move over subscribers then maybe PugJesus would still be around.
Its pretty much not feasible unless all the devs work together on a compatible method. I looked into it pretty thoroughly with PyLova and while I could get something working PyLova to PyLova it wouldn’t help with anyone subbed from Lemmy or Mbin, etc.
You need to be able to verify the requests from both ends or else you end up with a system where a dodgy instance can just subscribe you to their communities against your will.
Oh, I was just pipe dreaming. Maybe one day, though.
I will try reaching piefed.world admin in https://piefed.world/about
@mrkaplan@piefed.world @ruud@lemmy.world