Ooh man, this is what put Piefed on my radar, as I have to move two communities away from a failing Lemmy instance and there's no way to do that in Lemmy. I think I'm gonna give Piefed a serious spin soon.

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 6 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

yea that's a cool feature

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 7 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

It could use some work though. Subscribers are not ported and there are many nuances with post/comment porting.

Better than nothing though.

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

If you consider how subscribing actually works (or rather: has to work) with federated content, this isn't surprising. There could be some mechanism that uses the old community and some sort of meta-post to trigger the subscriptions to migrate, but the hard part is making that abuse-resistant. Probably too hard?

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 3 points 11 hours ago

I know that Rimu does want to make it so subscribers from a community migrating are transferred. But I imagine this would only work for users based on piefed instances.

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

One possible method to limit abuse would be manual approval from both instances.

The Piefed community migration requires a manual request that needs to be approved.

From my discussions with the world admins, they can actually move subscribers between LW and piefed.world (but unlike piefed.social, they won't move posts/comments).

[–] Blaze@lemmy.zip 2 points 14 hours ago

Better than nothing though.

Definitely

[–] ExtremeDullard@sopuli.xyz 6 points 16 hours ago

Perfect. Thanks!