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.

  • Otter@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    Is there a recommended way for other instances to load the old posts that were added in the new community? Right now we only see the new content that is on !barcelona@piefed.social (2 posts)

    • Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 days ago

      Happy cake day!

      Hm, you should still see at least 5, maybe nobody from lemmy.ca is subscribed to the new community yet?

      But yes, as I said it’s not possible to backfill the new community on Lemmy instances (on other Piefed instances, it works though)