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

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

The one caveat is that from Lemmy instances, the community doesn’t have show old posts (see https://lemm.ee/c/barcelona@piefed.social), but if you were restarting a community from scratch you wouldn’t have access to your old posts anyway.

Other federated instances like feddit.online would also see the posts and comments on the new community: https://feddit.online/c/barcelona@piefed.social

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.

  • rglullisAEnglish
    41·
    3 days ago

    I’m not happy to have software falsify my actions and I in no way consent to it doing so.

    There is no falsification if implemented correctly. Every comment and post that you submit is an activity. All that the “community migration” should be doing is to take these activities and re-Announce them, so it should look like a repost on Lemmy.

    If the migration feature however takes the content from the imported community and creates new activities out of the comments, then yes, it will be shady.

    • sabreW4K3@lazysoci.alEnglish
      21·
      3 days ago

      It’s falsification and not a slippery slope I want to go down. I only post to communities I want to and I do that explicitly. I do not authorise the pretense that I posted anywhere other than I actually did.

      • rglullisAEnglish
        5·
        3 days ago

        Just to clarify: what would you say if someone followed your Lemmy account from mastodon and Boosted (Retweeted) all of your posts and comments?

          • rglullisAEnglish
            3·
            3 days ago

            Excuse my pedantry, but from the point of view of ActivityPub, it is.

            Any remote instance sees your posts to any community as a as:Announce activity. All that the community is doing is boosting your comments/posts, and that can be done by anyone else.

        • Rimu@piefed.socialEnglish
          4·
          2 days ago

          All the posts are reassigned to the local piefed community. From the perspective of remote instances, PieFed just got a new community with a whole lot of content in it.