https://lemm.ee/post/65824884 for details.

Moderators interested in migrating to a new community on another instance might want to consider selecting an instance and doing so sooner rather than later so that users here have time to see a migration post here and subscribe to the new community.

  • Scirocco@lemm.eeM
    10·
    9 days ago

    I’ve made one one on .world

    TBH I am not particularly adept in the fediversification things and not sure — should we attempt to (is there a method for…) port any/all of the posts over there? Is there a way to “reassign” them? Hopefully with an automated tool of some sort…

    • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      The easiest method of transferring existing posts to a new instance is by migrating to a Piefed instance, which has a unique ability to create a backup of all previous content from a lemmy community.

      One limitation is that the backed up previous content is only able to be seen from the piefed instance itself, it cannot be seen from outside lemmy instances (though people would still be able to go to this lemm.ee community from any other instance that was federated with it, as it will retain a local copy as well).

      To create a new copy of the contents to another lemmy instance, I believe you would have to involve the use of an automated bot.

      • Scirocco@lemm.eeM
        3·
        5 days ago

        Yea i don’t disagree — there are a number of reposts already at .world, but i’m not opposed to abandoning.

        I spent a little time today looking for a way to ‘migrate’ all the posts non-manually, but this is the closest tool i found and it doesn’t include comments. https://gitlab.com/guardianoffreespeech/lemmy_meme_theif/-/tree/master

        Also, it apparently uses V3 API and doesn’t work out of the box for V4, aaannnndddd it apears to be written in rust annnnnnnndddd the latest coding work i’ve done was in like 1998 and was mostly Perl with some ansi C

        SO

        A large portion of the lemm.ee (all?) URLs are probably the ones I just stuffed in https://archive.ph/lemm.ee

        tagging tal@lemmy.today since they have done the work reposting the lemmy.world instance tal@lemmy.today [i guess .today is not recognized as a valid tld?] lemmy.today

        @DosDude@retrolemmy.com <— i did just submit to register on retrolemmy.com and i think that would be a good fit BUT – idk what the capicity is, and ofc we kinda don’t want to need to move again anytime soon. What do you think?

    • talOPEnglish
      9·
      9 days ago

      I’ve made one one on .world

      It appears to be !CassetteFuturism@lemmy.world, for anyone looking.

      Hopefully with an automated tool of some sort…

      PieFed apparently has some functionality like this; the !InternetIsBeautiful@lemm.ee migration to !InternetIsBeautiful@piefed.social did this, and old posts—including, importantly, a new copy of images posted by lemm.ee users now hosted on piefed.social—are visible on that instance. I have not seen old posts yet show up on my own instance as of this writing, and am not sure whether they will do so or are even expected to do so.

      https://lemm.ee/post/65950432/20944447

      • Scirocco@lemm.eeM
        3·
        5 days ago

        sorry, i’m replying all out of order and all over this thread – what i get for failing to read and replying from my inbox…

        If there’s an automated way to migrate to piefed.social that includes the comments, media and ideally attribiution for all of the old posts that would be cool. I’ll investigate those options a little

        retrolemmy.com is another possibility, but idk anything much about it yet

        • talOPEnglish
          1·
          5 days ago

          If there’s an automated way to migrate to piefed.social that includes the comments, media and ideally attribiution for all of the old posts that would be cool. I’ll investigate those options a little

          Yes, there is. One other community that I’d been using did that: !CasualConversation@lemm.ee moved to !CasualConversation@piefed.social using PieFed’s migration feature. It retains comments. It mirrors media to piefed.social, as best I can tell, and the attribution issue goes away.

          I’ve been reposting the old stuff manually to !CassetteFuturism@lemmy.world, but I’ll put that on pause if you’re planning to migrate to a third community on piefed.social instead.

      • talOPEnglish
        3·
        9 days ago

        Honestly, there aren’t that many posts in this community’s history—only ~240-and-change—and it’d be a shame to lose the images. Tell you what, @Scirocco@lemm.ee and @sag@lemm.ee. I’ll go ahead and take the initiative and go through and manually repost the history myself to the new community with what images I can recover, and upload to lemmy.today’s pict-rs instance; not all are still accessible.

        Also, given that catbox.moe—another popular place to host content posted to the Threadiverse—is also at risk of going down, probably a good thing to get anything on there off anyway, if anyone’s used that.

    • ApollosArrow@lemmy.world
      2·
      9 days ago

      I’ve been slacking on posting here due to work, but maybe reposting the content again will help drive traffic to the .world one?