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When a community needs to move to another instance, it can be a rocky process.

It doesn't need to be, though - as long as someone on your instance has been a part of the community for a while your instance will already have quite a lot of the content from the old community. All we need to do is change our record of which instance the community belongs to and that's what PieFed's new 'Move community' feature does. Check out the video for a quick demo.

The full process is:

  1. Ensure the copy of the community on this instance has been active long enough to receive a decent amount of posts. The move process will not copy posts so having an account on this instance subscribed to it for a while is the only way to get old posts here.

  2. Lock the old community to by setting it to 'moderators only' so no one else can post in it.

  3. Create a post in the old community announcing the impending move to piefed.social. Paste the url of that post into the field below.

  4. Submit the 'move community' form (there is a link in the sidebar of every remote community) to send the request to piefed.social admins.

  5. piefed.social admins will review your request, turn this community into a local one and contact you.

  6. Update your announcement post in the old community to encourage people to join the new community at
    [email protected].

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I guess it doesn't bring the followers along with it? like Mastodon does for transferring accounts

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Nope, not possible at the moment

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

But it could be a notification :

The community has moved to...

Very cool feature :D

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think it automatically locks communities too so it already kind of does this :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yep it kinda do it but i thought it as notification for users and they may click on "migrate" :)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

The process outlined above is "co-operative" in the sense that the moderators of the old community have decided to make the move and initiate the process themselves using their piefed.social accounts.

But also anyone could choose to 'fork' the old community, with or without the old community mods involvement. The old community would not be locked and would continue as-is while the local copy of it would then be a separate community with all the old content in it. They would then diverge from that point onwards.

I imagine there might sometimes be a need to reverse this process too, to re-associate a local community with it's remote counterpart. Or to merge two communities...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Why not post it on PeerTube? We need more content there. Could have been a good and sneaky oppertunity to promote another fediverse product. Still a good and helpful video.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Can you recommend an instance?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

This post lists some well-federated instances

https://lemmy.wtf/post/15816115

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

No I can't unfortunetly. I don't have an account on PeerTube because I couldn't find content on there that would have interested me. But if you post your video I would probably look into to make me an account and give you a like.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe on the same instance where you did the interview ? :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Best is the enemy of the good, Youtube works for this case.

You can probably upload it to a Peertube instance, I guess @[email protected] wouldn't mind

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Of course it works but isn't this community about the fediverse? I have the feeling that some of the fediverse services don't get used enough to be useable, like PeerTube. Another point is when we are already in the ecosystem of the fediverse with beeing on Lemmy why should we post media ment for the fediverse outside from it? Isn't the idea of fediverse to be an alternative to YouTube, Twitter, Reddit, Instagram and the others? Don't get me wrong here, my intention is not to criticize someone. I only thought it could be a good oppertunity to promote another fediverse service.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You can probably upload it to a Peertube instance, I guess @[email protected] wouldn’t mind

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't want to force my ideas on people, I like to share and chat about them but I feel if I upload it myself I would kind of force the idea. Also it is his video I think he should be in control of where it is posted.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Really, as someone who regularly gets "you should give an archive.org link as well" when I post paywalled content, I really appreciate when people do provide additional links so that I can add them to the OP. It feels more like we are collaborating.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I get that point but I don't say "you should" but rather "you could". Also I think the example you give is a bit different because here we have someone (an individual) who took his time to create something which is different to other people sharing additional info.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Rimu is already quite busy with the Piefed updates. He took the last resistance path to upload the video. If people want to promote Peertube in the process, they're free to reupload the content.

Seems counterproductive to me to expect one person to do all the work instead of collaborating

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't think we will find an aggreement.

  • It's his decision to post it or not
  • I will not post peoples contents on my account without their permission
  • I'm happy to collaborate
  • I don't expect one person to do all the work
  • I don't expect anyone to do any work
  • If he don't want to post on PeerTube then he dosn't need to

I don't want to escalate this discussion. It was just an idea of maybe putting it also on PeerTube without force, expectations or demands.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Seems like we have a different interpretation of your first comment.

Let's agree to disagree, have a good one!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

It's a cool feature, though as long as it's Piefed-to-Piefed only it's kind of of limited use. It also doesn't transfer over subscriptions right? That's still the biggest problem with community migration in my opinion.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It doesn't do subscriptions. That would need to be initiated on the old community and currently all the old communities are on Lemmy instances, so that's a non-starter.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Could it be possible at some point in the future? Once we'll have more Piefed instances people might want to move a few communities from one to another

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes, for sure. I think the old community would Announce a Move activity to all followers, which would cause all the other instances to update their Follows to point to the new community.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Piefed-to-Piefed only it’s kind of of limited use.

On the other hand, it might drive people to Piefed more knowing they can transfer communities

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It move a Lemmy's community to PieFed.

So for anyone who like PieFed's features as

  • admin board, trusted instance
  • managing downvote per communities
  • tags
  • regrouping several communities
  • merging comment from a crosspost...

it's very handy. :)

Once mobile support is there, I plan to migrate several of my Lemmy communities to PieFed and offer another experience to my readers. But of course, i will ask my readers first.

So in fact, it's open to all lemmy users. :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

So what exactly does that do AP wise? Does it send out a MOVE activitiy of any kind? Do other instances get an activity by which they can tell that the community has moved and can they confirm that the new instance has the authority, so the permission, to move it from the old instance?