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 [email protected] to [email protected]

https://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 https://lemm.ee/c/[email protected]), 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.

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Let me tell you what I don't like about Lemmy and piefed. Nothing. There's nothing on these wonderful things that is not better than the other places we've tried. I love fedi.
- Commenting from mbin, same. love fedi

Where is piefed.social hosted? A whois lookup only shows cloudflare, which is a US company.
Before moving european communities there, this should be clarified.
- https://join.piefed.social/try/ says they are hosted in Europe. I assume they are using Cloudflare only for DDos-protection?
  
  Cloudflare also does domain registration and with that you can enable ownerships obfuscation.

Question: why do I see piefed come up so often/what makes it stand out?
- The community migration feature mentioned in this post is quite neat
  All comments from crossposts appear in the same view: https://piefed.social/post/815832#post_replies with comments from 3 crossposts
  Flairs, both for posts and users: https://piefed.social/c/fediverse
  Features to deal with trolls: https://join.piefed.social/2024/06/22/piefed-features-for-growing-healthy-communities/
  
  Got it. So people like it because it’s just pretty well developed and feature-rich compared to most instances?
  
  Also "feeds", the ability to combine all similar communities into one.

i just tried this with bertstrips -> [email protected] ... it was a single query in mbin to migrate everything
- Well done!

Disclaimer: I'm not trying to discourage people from moving to or using piefed. I understand the enthusiasm for it and utility of it. This is meant to foster discussion not hate on piefed.
Is it just me or are a lot of people just ignoring the fact that a lot of communities and people are centralizing to pretty much a single point of failure again? Wouldn't it be wise to expand the number of piefed instances to help keep things spread out there too if that's the platform you prefer?
- At this moment, 9 out of the 10 most active communities are on LW: https://lemmyverse.net/communities?order=active
  You have to scroll 3 times to see [email protected], the first Lemm.ee community.
  Lemm.ee was already a decentralization factor from LW, but it was still tiny in terms of communities compared to LW. Moving all of the Lemm.ee communities to Piefed.social (not that it's the case anyway, I've seen communities moving elsewhere) would keep the status quo that we were all living with.
  Of course ideally over time more Piefed instances emerge, and we can spread a bit more. Also, thanks to the Piefed migration feature, we'll be able to move communities much smoother (even including subscribers).
  
  At this moment, 9 out of the 10 most active communities are on LW: https://lemmyverse.net/communities?order=active
  You have to scroll 3 times to see [email protected], the first Lemm.ee community.
  Lemm.ee was already a decentralization factor from LW, but it was still tiny in terms of communities compared to LW. Moving all of the Lemm.ee communities to Piefed.social (not that it's the case anyway, I've seen communities moving elsewhere) would keep the status quo that we were all living with.
  Of course ideally over time more Piefed instances emerge, and we can spread a bit more. Also, thanks to the Piefed migration feature, we'll be able to move communities much smoother (even including subscribers).
  Right, I've seen pretty much that same reply already.
  I think it's a chance to learn a lesson from how and why lemm.ee is shutting down. Right now I think people are risking moving the same problem somewhere else. Sure, in theory the problem gets better with time because the tools to move around are there, but that only matters if there's somewhere to move.
  It would be much more encouraging to see dozens of new piefed instances being launched/advertised. I think there's a big push towards something new because it's in the right place at the right time, and I genuinely hope it's a successful project long term. I just hope the people utilizing it are willing to support it as a platform and not just as a flagship instance.

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