• What pointed me towards this solution was primarily Blaze's positive experience with such.
• What delayed my personal decision was 1) new, scary health issues I've been dealing with, and 2) personal ambivalence. What swung the balance was the fact that (maybe, hopefully) I'm not going blind anytime soon, plus I was really starting to miss sharing my BD findings with the world. (more on why I feel so driven on that in a future post, perhaps)
• Specifically, I understand that our new address should update from **lemm.ee/c/eurographicnovels** to **piefed.social/c/eurographicnov… altho it's going to be up to the PF instance-runners to make the final decision on that.
• But why PieFed, anyway? Welp, because it will seemingly allow a bunch of our classic content to be preserved. I feel like that's very much a good thing rather than 'completely starting over.'
• But what if the move doesn't work out for reasons X, Y or Z? Then we'll move to the next-best instance that I know of in the few days we have left here, and I'll be sure to mark that heavily across our sub/community, so that people will have an idea where to follow us who are looking at cached versions of EGN+.
• Btw, huge thanks to Thomas Verguet & Bastien Orenge for this artwork from Magellan, which I hope to get to, one of these days. (boy, I sure seem to say that a lot, lately XD)
• Oh, and sadly, I'm not quite sure how to do a group-invite to our ~1,260 subscribers to the new place. If anyone reading has some expertise on that, now would be a nice time to chime in... 😅
• Btw2, "PieFed" as I understand it is not just a classic instance, but also a significant 'dev' instance (like Lemmy.ML) that's a major fork of the Lemmy software which federates beautifully upon the Fediverse. Eh, note-- I'm not trying to point fingers or be an ass here, but PF really does seem like it's one of our sister/brother software variations that works in all the right ways with our own Lemmy / FV software and community... if that makes sense?

CONFIRMATION POST:
piefed.social/post/973016

Blaze (he/him)

2025-06-04 09:46:14

I just migrated a community from Lemmy to Piefed using the migration feature, it worked quite well

Context:
I tried to use the Piefed migration feature to migrate !barcelona@[url=https://lemm.ee/]lemm.ee[/url] to !barcelona@piefed.social

piefed.social/c/barcelona now exists, with all the existing posts there, as well as the icon and description.

It even moved some subscribers (there are around 100 now), from what I understand those were Piefed subscribers that got automatically moved.

The one caveat is that from Lemmy instances, the community doesn't have show old posts (see lemm.ee/c/barcelona@piefed.soc…), but if you were restarting a community from scratch you wouldn't have access to your old posts anyway.

This ensure that at least the posts are transferred to a community on an active instance, which is probably the main concern for lemm.ee communities at the moment.