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How to transfer community ownership (lemm.ee)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi folks,

as my current instance will shut down soon, I need to transfer the ownership of my tiny community to my new account on a different server. I know I can make my new account a moderator. But will the new acc then have 100% of the administration options that my current account has? Or will it only be a second-class role? I'm used to 2000er forum/boards where admin accounts carried way more privileges than mods. Like a mod could also never delete the whole thing.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Make a new community on a new instance
Post on your old community that you are moving
Lock the the old community
Change the old community name to [moved] something
Change the old community icon to something about moving
Lock old posts to prevent zombie spam
Post content to your new community

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Piefed has built-in processes to aid in moving communities to it. See the previous reply from Blaze.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

Sadly it's not quite feature complete.

Yes, it will take an existing community and make a piefed community from it, but it wont import old posts, and it wont re-federate the old community content into the new community

lemmy-federate doesn't support piefed yet, so federating your new community may be troublesome

the main piefed.social instance has strong opinions on defederation that may limit community reach (in fact this is why lemmy-federate doesnt support piefed)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The piefed community migration feature does import old posts, but it doesn't refederate them, so they'll only be visible to local users

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Only if those posts are already on the piefed instance at the time of migration.

For example if nobody was subscribed to the community or if the piefed instance is new then none of the backlog will be migrated.

There is a manual way to import posts one at a time, so that's a option.

I'm excited for the future of piefed. At this moment there are real tradeoffs community owners need to consider.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

There is a manual way to import posts one at a time, so that's a option.

That's exactly how I did it when we spun up the new instance.

And once all the of the content was here, we transferred kicked off the transfer process.

It's not feature complete, as you said. In our case, it broke, because of a bug around the way it handled community names that use upper case letters, which required editing the database to fix

But despite that, at the end of it, we have the old content on the new community. Even if it doesn't federate, it's not lost

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