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Is there is a smooth way to move my communities from my current piefed instance to another instance without starting from zero? (piefed.world)

submitted 1 day ago by beep@piefed.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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I started getting sure that .world will never update their software and I don't want to use super outdated software.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?

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[–] Quokka@quokk.au 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Unfortunately not.

There is a 'Move community to X' button, subscribers will stay on the old one.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The subscribers is the big issue. If we could automatically move over subscribers then maybe PugJesus would still be around.

[–] anarcockworkorange@anarchist.nexus 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What happened to pugjesus?

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

https://piefed.social/c/fedimemes@feddit.uk/p/2203748/it-s-been-fun-but-i-don-t-have-another-migration-left-in-me

[–] anarcockworkorange@anarchist.nexus 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thanks. I loved his explanations. ☹️

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He was one of the pillars of the entire ecosystem. While it was unreasonable to ask that of him, and it was bound to burn him out sooner or later, it's undeniable that the Threadiverse has felt noticeably quieter since he left.

I hope he is in a happier place in life at the moment, I know posting here gave him an escape from some real life shit. He deserves a happy and stress free existence after single-handedly basically carrying the content contribution load of a small army here for several years.

[–] anarcockworkorange@anarchist.nexus 3 points 19 hours ago

It was truly impressive. Hope he's doing well too.

[–] Quokka@quokk.au 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 3 points 1 day ago

Oh, I was just pipe dreaming. Maybe one day, though.