[Meta] Would you all be okay to give the Piedfed migration feature a try?

Presentation of the feature: https://piefed.social/post/667045

Example of successful migration: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/45876492

Our next step would be to give this feature a try. What would basically happen is that

we would lock our community to prevent integrity issue during the migration
https://piefed.social/c/casualconversation@lemm.ee would become https://piefed.social/c/casualconversation , with all the existing posts and comments
you all would subscribe to the new !casualconversation@piefed.social , and then continue as usual

Should the migration not work, we would still be able to use the current community, and then manually migrate elsewhere.

The objective of this post is to address any questions or issues before we move forward. We are probably going to leave it open for 48 hours, and then reassess based on the community feedback.

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Wait, Piefed migration doesn't just work from Piefed to Piefed, but even from Lemmy into Piefed?

With this community migration feature, Piefed seems like the sensible choice every time a community needs to move now.
- 100% agree

Sounds good, but maybe consider moving it to a non-piefed.social piefed instance.
I'm slightly scared of another kbin.social happening.
- List of known piefed instances:
  https://piefed.fediverse.observer/list
  .Social's in 3 digits user numbers
  feddit.online and preferred.social are in 2 digits
  
  Preferred social is a test instance for the API, it's not supposed to be publicly used
  
  If more people choose to join the smaller instances they will grow larger.
- What happened with kbin?
  
  kbin was a lemmy compatible software.
  It has all of the lemmy features, with a really nice ui and microblogging (like twitter).
  kbin.social was the main instance, it had a lot of users.
  The dev eventually abandoned the project, and kbin.social decayed untill it finally stopped working.
  It was forked (code copied by a new group, to keep the project alive) by the mbin project.
  https://kbin.earth/ is an mbin instance, for example, that's still up.
- I have nothing to add but to say that I liked kbin.social. I was thinking that everyone was being a doomer when they said it was shutting down when there was a few small problems. But they were right
  
  kbin lives on as mbin.
  Check kbin.earth, for example.

Well, someone's gotta be the guinea pig!
I have no idea what, if any, compatibility issues exist between Piefed and Lemmy instances today, as I don't normally use any communities on instances running Piefed. Might be a good idea to ask the PieFed people or piefed.social admins about any known issues, or check the Piefed issue tracker:
https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/issues
e.g.
https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/issues/658
Mod-Assigned Post Flair is Dropped When a Lemmy Post is Edited
Like, for a community that relied heavily on post flair to make the community work, that might be a substantial issue.
- I've been using Piefed for the last few weeks as my daily driver, no issue so far.
  flair
  Lemmy doesn't show flairs anyway, so no community can reliably use them, they're just accessory "nice labels" at the moment.

I already hopped to piefed! Figured I literally just started posting with my lemm.ee account yesterday, might as well move my account somewhere else asap.
I say give it a go.
- Same here, I already have a Piefed account. It’s nice. Just not using it because I’d rather use Voyager lol

I'm 100% behind you just let me know what you need me to do

Let's do it. Seems like the right time to give it a try.

This seems like a good idea to me.
PieFed is getting some deserved attention due to these recent events. I had already been considering spinning up a PieFed instance but didn't want to bother the 9 or 10 MAU on our Lemmy instance with a migration, but maybe I should ride this wave and get us all on something a bit more mature.