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Cassette Futurism

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Welcome to Cassette Futurism Lemmy and Mbin Community.

A place to share and discuss Cassette Futurism: media where the technology closely matches the computers and technology of the 70s and 80s.

Whether it's bright colors and geometric shapes, the tendency towards stark plainness, or the the lack of powerful computers and cell phones, Cassette Futurism includes: Cassettes, ROM chips, CRT displays, computers reminiscent of microcomputers like the Commodore 64, freestanding hi-fi systems, small LCD displays, and other analog technologies.

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[META] The lemm.ee instance that this community is hosted on will go down at the end of June 2025 (lemmy.today)
submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

but I’ve really enjoyed it.

Me too, and I hope it lives on elsewhere myself!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

@[email protected] @[email protected] Any plans on moving this community to another instance?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (5 children)

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.....

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I’ve made one one on .world

It appears to be [email protected], for anyone looking.

Hopefully with an automated tool of some sort…

PieFed apparently has some functionality like this; the [email protected] migration to [email protected] 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.

https://lemm.ee/post/65950432/20944447

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

sorry, i'm replying all out of order and all over this thread -- what i get for failing to read and replying from my inbox..

If there's an automated way to migrate to piefed.social that includes the comments, media and ideally attribiution for all of the old posts that would be cool. I'll investigate those options a little

retrolemmy.com is another possibility, but idk anything much about it yet

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

If there’s an automated way to migrate to piefed.social that includes the comments, media and ideally attribiution for all of the old posts that would be cool. I’ll investigate those options a little

Yes, there is. One other community that I'd been using did that: [email protected] moved to [email protected] using PieFed's migration feature. It retains comments. It mirrors media to piefed.social, as best I can tell, and the attribution issue goes away.

I've been reposting the old stuff manually to [email protected], but I'll put that on pause if you're planning to migrate to a third community on piefed.social instead.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Honestly, there aren't that many posts in this community's history---only ~240-and-change---and it'd be a shame to lose the images. Tell you what, @[email protected] and @[email protected]. I'll go ahead and take the initiative and go through and manually repost the history myself to the new community with what images I can recover, and upload to lemmy.today's pict-rs instance; not all are still accessible.

Also, given that catbox.moe---another popular place to host content posted to the Threadiverse---is also at risk of going down, probably a good thing to get anything on there off anyway, if anyone's used that.

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

Well, just today

i've stuffed all of the posts (and most of the sources) into archive.is, just in case.

I'm not super-active as you've pointed out...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think retrolemmy.com will be better. @[email protected] what do you think?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Yea i don't disagree

there are a number of reposts already at .world, but i'm not opposed to abandoning.

I spent a little time today looking for a way to 'migrate' all the posts non-manually, but this is the closest tool i found and it doesn't include comments. https://gitlab.com/guardianoffreespeech/lemmy_meme_theif/-/tree/master

Also, it apparently uses V3 API and doesn't work out of the box for V4, aaannnndddd it apears to be written in rust annnnnnnndddd the latest coding work i've done was in like 1998 and was mostly Perl with some ansi C

SO

A large portion of the lemm.ee (all?) URLs are probably the ones I just stuffed in https://archive.ph/lemm.ee

tagging [email protected] since they have done the work reposting the lemmy.world instance [email protected] [i guess .today is not recognized as a valid tld?] lemmy.today

@[email protected] <--- i did just submit to register on retrolemmy.com and i think that would be a good fit BUT -- idk what the capicity is, and ofc we kinda don't want to need to move again anytime soon. What do you think?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I think this would be an amazing fit for retrolemmy! Go right ahead. If you have any questions, you can always message me or @[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I’ve been slacking on posting here due to work, but maybe reposting the content again will help drive traffic to the .world one?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

It might be worth asking for advice in [email protected]