[META] The lemm.ee instance that this community is hosted on will go down at the end of June 2025
[META] The lemm.ee instance that this community is hosted on will go down at the end of June 2025
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.
Damn! :( That seriously sucks. I feel for the burned out admins and totally understand why they can't do it anymore. (The shitheads in the world have contributed to my own burnout, too.)
Thanks for posting here letting us know. I hope this community and other cool ones are able to find a new instance to call home and can come back better than ever.
I know this community hasn't been super active, but I've really enjoyed it. Thank you so much to all those who've contributed! <3 I hope to still see y'all around!
but I’ve really enjoyed it.
Me too, and I hope it lives on elsewhere myself!
@Scirocco@lemm.ee @sag@lemm.ee Any plans on moving this community to another instance?
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.....
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.
I think retrolemmy.com will be better. @DosDude@retrolemmy.com what do you think?
I’ve been slacking on posting here due to work, but maybe reposting the content again will help drive traffic to the .world one?
It might be worth asking for advice in !fediverse@lemmy.world
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.