On any of the donation threads where it came up and he replied to it, the most he ever did was some half hearted corporate PR “apology” (ironic)

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    It would mean starting our instance from scratch and losing everything we have content, user registrations, communities

    Not really, because PieFed can already copy/migrate community content.

    Futhermore, there are lot functionalities that will improve your user experience as tags, flairs, tile view, multi-community, filter, wiki…they did that in 6 months whereas it was a lemmy issue since 2020.

    PieFed is compatible with Lemmy API. But, it still a WIP, we need more python developper. :)

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      Can it copy the existing database structure? Like could an instance migrate and have users just login to the piefed instance as if nothing had changed? If not point remains. Migrating software later in the life cycle of the platform is a destructive process, and one done with very little purpose considering the nature of open-source software.