If whole communities want to move, all the posts in the community since the start of 2024 will be preserved. See https://piefed.social/post/667044 for details.
Damn that sucks. While I’m glad such an instance existed, I have to wonder if their ideological opposition to defederation was a factor here. I’ve usually argued against defederation in all but the most extreme cases but I could see how not doing so would increase the burden on admins considerably.
Sure, I didn’t mean it was impossible or anything, just could see how it might lead to more abuse since you’ll inevitably end up mediating between instances that hate each other and sometimes just are downright hateful to everyone.
I have a lemmy.cafe, it was my daily driver for a few weeks.
The admin is nice, and the instance theme is cool.
The main issue is that Illecors (the admin) is alone, and sometimes it would take him a few weeks to troubleshoot an issue. There was a quite serious one that would prevent images from loading, and that lasted for quite a while.
Would be awesome if there was a way to do this with user accounts as well. Especially with news like this, that's a missing piece of this federation business. Because even once you've settled on lan instance, there's no guarantee it's going to stay open long term. And it kinda sucks on the user's end to lose all your comment and post history like that. And saved posts.
Not that I blame that on any admins, I can understand their decision. Just riffing about the user experience here in the Fediverse. If you can re-index communities and posts therein, that gives me hope that you could potentially do that with a user account.
I'll plug my home instance of discuss.online. The admin is great, and we've got several discussion communities already, one of which I've been posting to recently:
There are a couple Lemmy meta posts with discussions on available options with similar modding styles to lemm.ee. Some of the more recommended I've seen is piefed, lemmy.zip, and dbzer0.
Piefed has reached feature parity with Lemmy from a community perspective (for the mobile apps, it's in progress, but you can still use your Lemmy account to follow a Piefed community, so it's all good).
Lemmy.world has pro-genocide bias, and defederates from too many Lemmy instances. What would be a good general purpose instance that doesn't support the genocide in Gaza and doesn't defederate from instances slightly left of center?