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As some of you already have seen the lemm.ee admins have announced that the instance is shutting down at the end of the month.

The question for us is where should we migrate next.

Returning to [email protected] is always an option, alternatively we could move to either another established and stable lemmy instance or migrate to a piefed instance.

Piefed instances federate with lemmy instances as normal, and it allows for adding flairs to community posts and users, something not yet implemented on Lemmy. I haven't tried Piefed myself yet so I would need to dig more into it if it is a popular option.

Ultimately the choice for our next destination is up to you guys!

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Flairs are on their way to Lemmy. So that shouldn't be a factor.

I'm vehemently against moving back to Lemmy World.

I propose taking over [email protected] it's a football instance. It's always up and up-to-date and it allows for smaller teams to host their communities there too, which should help grow the football community on Lemmy overall.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Flairs are on their way to Lemmy. So that shouldn't be a factor.

Lemmy 1.0 is planned for Autumn 2025, and it's not a set in stone date.

I'm vehemently against moving back to Lemmy World.

Same. We see how much impact the Lemm.ee shutdown has, imagine what it would be if LW did the same tomorrow.

I propose taking over [email protected] it's a football instance. It's always up and up-to-date and it allows for smaller teams to host their communities there too, which should help grow the football community on Lemmy overall.

For context, this instance is part of the https://communick.news/c/communick_news_network network

The admin is known for being against donations-based instances:

I also personally had quite a few unpleasant interactions with him (the most recent being today: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/45833491/19184026), but that's me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

I'm not going to pretend that rgullis versus you isn't a mess. But I don't think it should get in the way of finding c/football a good home.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

I would say Piefed.social.

I just migrated a community from lemm.ee to there today, it went quite well: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/45833491/19184026

Flairs are cool, and they exist for posts and users

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

You'd be quite welcome on [email protected]. The instance has been running almost two years already, it is an instance exclusively for football communities and I can potentially customize it if you come up with any reasonable idea, a matchthreader bot? Integration with a Matrix room? All possible.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

I second this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I just moved my account and (tiny) communities I moderate to piefed.social . The migration is pretty seamless, all post got copied over to new community.

My experience (under 24h)has been OK so far. There is many quirks that came with it tho, I am still digging all the feature available.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Nice Manchester City flair!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Can we have a new post with options so we can vote?

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

Yes, I'll give people some more time to discuss before making another post.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Just FYI, @[email protected] and I are mods on [email protected]

I might post there for a bit just to see if there's any quirks or issues.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Adding this as a first level comment: sopuli.xyz has been around for 4 years and hosts several popular communities like [email protected] and [email protected]

It is also hosted in Europe by Finnish admins.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I have to agree, any instance could die at any time. I made the mistake to sign-up in lemmy.world, which was wrong, because lemmy should be many instances and not 4-5 instances. Same goes with commuties

I known I have a community in lemmy.world, but I'm about to move it looking for instance if not lemmy.ca.

Again, we left Reddit because didn't want to be controlled by 1 person but my many, instances and communities.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

And yes not lemmy.world, pfied would work I guess.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

What about fanaticus.social instance? I will post if I find any other instance.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Lemmy 0.19.3, are the admins even still around?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Out of 2 admins 1 is active. Lemmy version will be a problem, I didn't notice that.