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Blaze (he/him)
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  • which should be plenty of time for new instances to launch and communities to disperse.

    I mod a few communities, I can tell you I want this to be over as soon as possible. I'm busy in the coming weekends, and if there's something I've learned about the Fediverse, is that usually, if you want something to be done, you do it yourself.

    Even after the shutdown the rest of the fediverse will be able to redirect users to the new communities, wherever they are homed.

    The Piefed migration feature requires lemm.ee to be up if members want to get all of their communities content (post and comments).

    I just don’t understand why we can’t learn the lesson and move on instead of moving on and hoping it doesn’t happen again before more instances pop up.

    I've seen quite a few communities move to sopuli (a few communities I mod are voting for that one as well). It's not like everyone is moving to Piefed, some communities are, others aren't.

  • The one constraint we have is time. Lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of the months. Some of the polls will take a few days, then depending on the communities, it will take a few more days for the migrations to happen, but we can't wait for dozens of new instances to pop up.

    Using a diverse set of Piefed instances is indeed better, and hopefully that what we'll try to achieve down the line.

  • 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 !television@lemm.ee, 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).

  • You never have too many alts

  • Yes. We were still waiting for the API (allowing app support) to come out of beta, and coincidentally it happened the same night Lemm.ee announced their shutdown.

    So now quite a few Lemm.ee communities are considering moving to Piefed.

  • Let's just agree to disagree at this point. I'm not going through another round.