Recently joined and started a community for people who want to move away from Lemmy and want to see Lemmy loosen its stranglehold on the threadiverse, if that seems like something interesting to you consider checking out [email protected]
Recently joined and started a community for people who want to move away from Lemmy and want to see Lemmy loosen its stranglehold on the threadiverse, if that seems like something interesting to you consider checking out [email protected]
I just moved my instance over to PieFed on the weekend.
If anyone is looking for a smaller PieFed instance away from the bigger players, we’d love to have you here at quokk.au.
Interested, how do I move an instance from Lemmy to piefed?
I’m not a server admin., just a user. The Lemmy instance I’m on setup a Piefed instance in parallel and is giving users the option to use either, or both. I’m still trying to get my head around the history and the pros/cons of each but for now it seems like I’m switching to Piefed. I imagine that if most users move then the Lemmy instance might get shutdown in the future.
I doubt it would get shutdown, all the communities there would have to shut down.
At the moment, you basically have to restart it all with a fresh install of PieFed on your server.
They are working on features options to transfer over and copy the content etc, but that may be many months away still.
So, are all the posts and stuff on your instance gone?
Were you able to migrate the DB?
I could have, and I still have the old Lemmy server around to do so if I wanted but it wasn’t deemed worth the effort. It was mostly world news, and who reads old news.
On most fediverse softwares its near-impossible to start federating on the same domain without the same keys it had before. Lemmy is the exception.
this explains why most of the images from quokk are broken anyway.
So I will stick on Lemmy for the time being. After all I don’t care for down votes, I think votes in general should not be private, because this is like a public plaza what you say is public, and attaching a reputation because of down votes is dangerously bullying and a slippery slope, so piefed doesn’t actually feel like my pie at the moment.
Still maybe I will try a fresh installation just to check it out.
Do you know where I can see a list of piefed instances?
join.piefed.social has a list somewhere.
https://piefed.fediverse.observer/list
Not that you would want to look any where else of course, but…
https://fedidb.com/servers
filter by software.