It's a lot...

We should probably start compiling a megathread.

Yes. It’s shutting down at the end of the month.
- Aaaargh, I can already feel my power waning... All these moments will be lost in time, and so on.
  On a lighter and more serious note, though, thanks to all the admins and mods that made this ride possible. You are the best.
- Not enough funds?

trying out piefed over here! figured I'd try something completely different while migrating

PieFed is awesome 😎
There are several instances to choose from, though app support is still rolling out and for awhile may be hit or miss.
- I really like Voyager for Android Lemmy browsing. I've heard others echo the app reference. I was unaware that the apps play a part in the features offered to Lemmy users, in regards to the instances someone uses. If I moved to an instance of piefed, will I still be able to use Voyager? If so, what piefed features may I miss out on?
  Apologies if the answers to these questions exceed the info you were providing.

The part that sucks about all this is that there aren't any tools to fully migrate my account over to a new instance. Comments and posts will be left behind, but at least they'll hopefully remain federated for as long as possible so I can look back at them in the future.

I don't understand what migrating an account could do besides making new, duplicate posts & comments and deleting the old ones, which would mess up comment chains and spawn even more duplicate posts with no comments on them than we already have.
- It would amazing if when importing, all the posts, would show up linking to them, just that and nothing more.
  \ But I think this was discussed and its not going to happen.
https://lemm.ee/post/65872992

I am reborn 🙌

Like a beautiful phoenix, you rise again from the ashes!
Welcome back

Brings up the question if there should be a migrate community option on the back-end

Piefed actually has this. Shame lemmy doesn’t.
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/45876780
- Nice, good luck with the migration! I'll be keeping an eye out where to subscribe

Started the sign up process and then my password manager told me I was already here.

I think my new instance won't appreciate me migrating FuckableCars here...

:(

The thing I like most about lemm.ee is the defederation policy. Supposedly lemmy.zip is similar in that regard so that’s where I ended up.

i went on lemmy today, and considered .ca even if im not a canadian. i made one for world, but dint realize they blocked alot of the nasty instances.
Is there a tool for comparing Lemmy instances in regards to their federation policies?
- I came across https://defed.xyz/ the other day, but it doesn't seem to fully report everything.
- The data is all public and it's aggregated by a few websites that provide apis. You'd need some kind of tool for analyzing densely connected graphs, maybe load it all into a db and write queries for a start? Or some kind of visualization software

I’m now on a few different instances. I was not expecting do have to do something like this, but I understand.

Thank you very much to the admins and mods of lemm.ee. I was on there for at least a year or so, and I will definitely miss the open federation they had.

comm

so fetch

I keep thinking voice comms until I remember the kids are trying to be cool.

What happens to the communities and posts from those communities. Are they archived and accessible, or do they disappear once the instance goes down?

The whole thing made me paranoid so I made accounts on multiple instances.

I made an account on sh.itjustworks yesterday, but the import account details hasn't worked (...yet?)
- Welcome! I just picked it because it sounded funny, but it turns out to be a really cool instance. 😎
Me too!

ive been called to hexbear. i hear there are owls

Oh fuck it. I think I'll just stop using Lemmy when this instance shuts down. This is the part of the fediverse that really sucks. All the comments, saved posts etc are gone because why? A couple of guys couldn't handle a few troll messages? Sorry, if we want an independent site, away from the hands of venture capitalists, you're gonna have to tough it out and deal with a few nasty messages.

Instead of acting like an entitled brat, why don't you go start your own instance. Shouldn't be too hard, just some little technical know how and few bucks a month. Should be a small price to pay to escape venture capitalists. If you can't handle it then too bad, just tough it out.
A couple of guys couldn’t handle a few troll messages? Sorry, if we want an independent site, away from the hands of venture capitalists, you’re gonna have to tough it out and deal with a few nasty messages.
No they aren't. Clearly they don't have to, as they are in fact shutting the instance.
They're providing a service, as volunteers, for free, and asking nothing in return. By definition they get to set the terms on which they do that, and it is astonishingly selfish for you to expect them to do so under conditions that are clearly untenable, and blame them for this outcome when they cannot continue.
No. If you want an independent site, away from the hands of venture capitalists, you should've stepped up and volunteered to admin when they needed help.
I think posts and comments will stay saved on other federated servers. It'd be weird and would probably break things if the entire server's activity gets scrubbed.
If you're talking about the saved comments and posts on your account, doing the data export comes with a JSON list of all the posts and comments you've saved
Oh no.
Please.
Don't go.
saved posts etc
Saved posts are exportable https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/45915265?scrollToComments=true
I think I'll just stop using Lemmy when this instance shuts down
...and nothing of value will be lost.
- Reddit ass comment lmao

I'm a bit slow. Where are the commies going?

they are fine, .ml, hexbear and lemmygrad has thier space for them. the problem is there were operating from there and trolling on lemmyee.
More than a bit, bub.