The admin of slrpnk.net and rimu will be investigating a pathway to migrating an entire Lemmy instance to piefed, which may be of interest to you.
PirateFrog
joined 8 months ago
Quite excited to see how this develops ^^
I can't wait to drop that on some unsuspecting fellow.
According to him, it came out tasting like a somewhat below average lightly carbonated beer, with little bitterness without any hops. I think he did it mostly as an interesting experiment.
Cheers for hearing me out! :)
Piefed also uses PostgreSQL. He was mentioning that the limiting factor on either platform is the DB, meaning that the parts written in Python will likely not be a limiting factor.
Piefed also has quite impressive optimizations in other areas as well compared to Lemmy or even Mbin.
I think there would still be a desire for the relative in-between setting of just opting out of the bundling. My reasoning is that a community may want to be open to be viewed and commented by anyone so that they continue to grow and have more participation, either by search or random encounter from the /all view, as that allows slow organic growth with relatively few people wanting to go in there and derail conversations.
With bundling, that community will be seen by far more non-members than ever before if a popular link is posted around to multiple communities, inviting a significant amount of outside participation, and the potential for a much increased need to keep things on topic, or to step in and moderate drama from other communities with wildly different perspectives.
Without the ability to opt out of bundling, this leaves only the two extremes of potentially unwanted isolation, or potentially unwanted increased outside participation.
The only other option would be for a community to request their admin defederate from the troublesome community, or from the outside instance entirely, which is using a mallet to solve something that could be done with scalpel.
I do think the bundling is quite nice overall, and I don't foresee a problem with it being the default, but I do strongly see the need for that middle ground option to opt-out, personally. The way Lemmy currently operates by default is effectively that middle-ground option that is missing from Piefed.
This guy started out with fairly innocent parodies (I think), but he ended up falling down the alt-right pipeline, and is now a hard right christian. Any of his newer stuff is done to harm who he's mocking, it is no longer good faith parody.
Yes, they're 100% cross compatible. As an example, you can access !piefed_meta@piefed.social from your Lemmy instance seamlessly.
A piefed migration allowed the possibility of backing up every post, but it only shows up on the piefed instance itself, the old backed up posts don't federate out.
Had Perish migrated to a Lemmy instance, there would be no backup at all, and we'd have to start from scratch. The only backup of the community would exist as the old posts from lemm.ee that exist on other instances.
This is the correct response at this point.