I’ve moved 1/2 of my lemm.ee communities to a new instance. It was a tremendous amount of work because I like to have archive posts that can be referenced from inside of lemmy (so had to repost the reference material).
In the future lemmy would benefit from a community backfill mechanism (kinda like piefed, but also with refederation of the backfill)
In the future I would change how I backfill posts, I’d make blank posts with a title like [backfill] or [blank], get them federated for a day or two… then edit the posts for the backfill content. This would be less of a burden on users browsing by NEW getting a absolute tidalwave of archival content they may not like
My migrated community already got a YPTB post (nutrition communities bring out the passion in people), it will probably take a week or two until everything settles down.
Reimporting ban lists into a new community could also benefit from automation.
I’ve moved 1/2 of my lemm.ee communities to a new instance. It was a tremendous amount of work because I like to have archive posts that can be referenced from inside of lemmy (so had to repost the reference material).
The move made me think that reference posts should probably be hosted elsewhere once they are mature enough. A bit like https://www.privacyguides.org/en/ which started as a subreddit and then became it’s own thing.
I’ve moved 1/2 of my lemm.ee communities to a new instance. It was a tremendous amount of work because I like to have archive posts that can be referenced from inside of lemmy (so had to repost the reference material).
In the future lemmy would benefit from a community backfill mechanism (kinda like piefed, but also with refederation of the backfill)
In the future I would change how I backfill posts, I’d make blank posts with a title like [backfill] or [blank], get them federated for a day or two… then edit the posts for the backfill content. This would be less of a burden on users browsing by NEW getting a absolute tidalwave of archival content they may not like
My migrated community already got a YPTB post (nutrition communities bring out the passion in people), it will probably take a week or two until everything settles down.
Reimporting ban lists into a new community could also benefit from automation.
dont forget to use https://lemmy-federate.com/ so they get federated with other instances
The move made me think that reference posts should probably be hosted elsewhere once they are mature enough. A bit like https://www.privacyguides.org/en/ which started as a subreddit and then became it’s own thing.