I don't see a thread in this community yet, so I thought I'd make a post. Where should this community be moved to?
Tagging @[email protected]
Man, have I been out of the loop. I'm looking into a few new instances.
What's everyone's feelings on Lemmy.world? I know there's been some huff about them in the past, but I'm interested in stability and ease for the most users.
For stability and ease, hard to beat https://lemmy.zip/
My information is a little outdated; do you know why some people seem to have a strong aversion to migrating to Lemmy.world?
The general opinion is that having too much people on the same instance is dangerous from a centralization perspective.
We see it now with the impact of Lemm.ee shutting down, and it is 3 times smaller than Lemmy.world (https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list)
Some LW mods have a tendency to power trip, even increased by the concentration of communities on their instance
Some of them even openly admitted that for them, federation is a secondary feature: https://lemmy.world/comment/14933488
Thanks for such a clear answer! I'm definitely not interested in ever getting involved in Lemmy Drama, so it does seems like LW might not be the way to go. I'll do a little digging; Lemmy.zip seems good, but feel free to throw any other suggestions my way!
Last point for zip, this is where the majority of lemm.ee users are going: https://lemmy.zip/post/40323214
Other nice options:
Also, what about lemmy.ml instead of lemmyworld? isn't that one of the "official" dev-run instances?
I've spent the last couple hours investigating, and yeah, it seems like lemmyzip is the right call. Do you know how to migrate a community? I'm not sure where to start.
This seems to be Piefed-specific; if I'm understanding correctly, it seems that the only way to "migrate" a Lemmy community from one instance to another is to simply make a new one on the new instance, and make a post in the old instance directing people to the new one. It doesn't seem like it's possible to actually transfer the content, posts, subscribers, etc from one to the other.
Does that seem correct? I'll keep studying up on this regardless.
Oh sorry, I got distracted. From Lemmy to Lemmy there isn't currently any tool to perform a migration.
You can see [email protected] to [email protected] to see how we did it
Piefed supports community migration
I wonder if Lemm.ee admins can somehow lock all communities right before going offline so that users aren't mislead and try to make posts that will never federate.
That would be nice: https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]
As long as the new home isn't on an extremist instance, I'll go to wherever we find refuge.
Edit: why is the instance shutting down? I missed the memo
Iirc the admins are burnt out
Ah. I can't blame them. A normal website is a lot to maintain. I can't even imagine what toll a social media site would take on mental health. Kiddos to them for maintaining it as long as they did!
How about feddit.org? It's also European and already gets a lot of traffic
I think it’s a bit of a controversial instance because they apply german cesnorship laws notably to do with israel palestine.
I know this won’t affect this specific community, but people might not be too keep on the idea of feddit.org in general for that reason.
(I don’t blame feddit.org admins, I’m not the one at legal risk)
I fully understand and I'm not happy about it either. I'd love to hear it if there is a better option in the EU, but it seems like we'll have to rely on the Germans (for European autonomy and Lemmy).
FWIW, I think the feddit.org admins are handling the situation very well.
You're on feddit.nl, which is in the EU.
https://lemmy.zip/ is also hosted in the EU
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We've moved to [email protected] due to the shutdown of lemm.ee - join us there!
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