Migrating communities in the wake of the lemm.ee shutdown
from tad_lispy@lemm.ee to fediverse@lemmy.world on 04 Jun 08:00
https://lemm.ee/post/65867906

I’m a happy lemm.ee user and a mod of a small community hosted there. I’m also subscribed to a bunch of communities on lemm.ee. Sadly, they have just announced that they will be shutting it down. I understand that I can open an account on another instance and subscribe to the same communities. For my own community, I can probably re-create it on my new instance and DM every subscriber. But how do I find all the communities from lemm.ee in their new places? I’d like some practical advice.

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Blaze@piefed.social on 04 Jun 08:06 next collapse

It will be a community by community discussion. I mod a few lemm.ee communities, we'll have separate polls in each of them.

gon@lemm.ee on 04 Jun 08:14 next collapse

Yeah, what Blaze said…

This is a huge pain in the ass, though… A shame they couldn’t keep Lemm.ee up…

gigachad@sh.itjust.works on 04 Jun 08:36 next collapse

Usually the community mods should pin a post with the new link. In small communities it might be worth to contact the moderator directly to bring the shutdown to their attention.

Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social on 04 Jun 08:40 next collapse

Consider moving them to PieFed.

It's more feature rich, especially when it comes to mod tools.

vaguerant@fedia.io on 04 Jun 08:53 next collapse

It also supports community migration, where the old content (that the PieFed instance knows about) remains available but the community is now local to that instance instead of elsewhere.

https://peertube.wtf/w/vq9GtVwjVUG2xzC5owADR8

nutomic@lemmy.ml on 04 Jun 09:30 next collapse

Can you say which mod tools Piefed has that are missing from Lemmy?

iso@lemy.lol on 04 Jun 10:22 next collapse

Yeah I don’t get this argument either. The user reports content and I can see it, no matter which instance they’re using. Does Piefed have a fully automatic autobot that fights spammers and we don’t know about it? :)

Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 04 Jun 11:13 collapse

join.piefed.social/…/piefed-features-for-growing-…

nutomic@lemmy.ml on 04 Jun 11:46 next collapse

Many of these are already implemented in Lemmy, others are too controversial and wont be added (such as karma).

iso@lemy.lol on 04 Jun 13:12 collapse

I don’t think banning users by the keyword “88” or defederating from an instance because it has “peepo” logo and accusing them of being (possible) nazis is not that effective. Or at least prone to false-positives.

Though downvote statistics stuff looks good.

astro_ray@piefed.social on 04 Jun 11:11 next collapse

No need to get jealous. Lemmy will catch up eventually. /j

walden@sub.wetshaving.social on 04 Jun 12:12 next collapse

One that stands out to me are the optional notes above the comment box for each community.

On piefed.social I’ve used this to put a note on every beehaw.org community about the ‘good vibes only’ nature of that instance and one community on lemmy.ml has a note about the unusual mostly-unwritten moderation policies employed there.

I like this idea, because it would serve as a last second warning to me(and others) that I might be at risk of participating with tankies.

Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social on 06 Jun 09:22 collapse

Sure here's a tour of the moderation features in PieFed

https://piefed.social/post/846276

A big one that I don't think is in this video is it hashed similar looking images and the Mod can ban them, this is useful to stop CSAM

sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al on 04 Jun 09:42 next collapse

Don’t do that. Spread them out.

nokturne213@sopuli.xyz on 04 Jun 13:12 collapse

Piefed is an alternative software to lemmy, not a specific instance.

sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al on 04 Jun 15:09 collapse

We’re talking about instances not software. I was talking about piefed.social specifically.

nokturne213@sopuli.xyz on 04 Jun 15:17 collapse

Piefed.social is not the only piefed instance.

sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al on 04 Jun 15:20 collapse

We’re talking about instances not software. I was talking about piefed.social specifically.

nokturne213@sopuli.xyz on 04 Jun 15:27 collapse

That is like saying use lemmy and only meaning lemmy.ml and no where is it specified that you or the commenter meant piefed.social

sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al on 04 Jun 15:34 collapse

Then take your issue up with @Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social

ramble81@lemm.ee on 04 Jun 13:19 collapse

Does Voyager support PieFeed?

ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 04 Jun 08:44 next collapse

Well, the managed communities will pin posts and update their descriptions before the shut down happens, and those details will federate to every instance with users that subscribe to the communities.

don@lemm.ee on 04 Jun 08:53 next collapse

As for me, while lemm.ee is home, I’ve transferred my json to lemmy.ca. Sucks dick to lose an Estonian tld because I lived there, and first surfed the w3 there decades ago, but I do respect and appreciate me some Canadians.

lemm.ee until the servers are turned off from underneath me. Eesti igavesti!

rglullis@communick.news on 04 Jun 15:39 next collapse

The following communities have already an alternative on instances that I run:

  • !television@lemm.ee -> !television@metacritics.zone
  • !movies@lemm.ee -> !movies@metacritics.zone
  • !artporn@lemm.ee -> !artporn@sfw.community
  • !football@lemm.ee -> !football@soccer.forum
  • !keitrucks@lemm.ee -> !keitrucks@gearhead.town

All these instances have been running for close to two years and are part of the “topic-specific” network of servers that I set up to help during the migration.

Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 04 Jun 15:42 next collapse

!Television@lemm.ee, !movies@lemm.ee and !Football@lemm.ee have pinned post where the community members can vote where they want to go.

At the moment, for !television and !movies, sopuli.xyz is the proposition with the most votes.

Edit: !artporn@lemm.ee also has a meta discussion post.

rglullis@communick.news on 04 Jun 15:48 collapse

Should I add an entry for metacritics or should you?

Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 04 Jun 16:01 collapse

Not sure, seems like I’m a flat earther anyway: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/45833491/19186689

MemmingenFan923@feddit.org on 05 Jun 15:37 collapse

There is now a Migration Mega Thread:

piefed.social/post/838399

MemmingenFan923@feddit.org on 05 Jun 15:37 collapse

There is now a Migration Mega Thread:

piefed.social/post/838399