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 !football@lemmy.world 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!

  • @sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al
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    115 days ago

    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 !football@soccer.forum 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.

  • @rglullis@communick.news
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    75 days ago

    You’d be quite welcome on !football@soccer.forum. 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.

    • Chris Remington
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      14 days ago

      I believe this is the best option. Even though you and @Blaze@piefed.social have a small disagreement that could easily be ironed out, it shouldn’t prevent all of us from migrating there. I’m one of the Beehaw admins and if our group becomes large enough in the future, then I can create a football community at Beehaw.

      • Blaze (he/him)
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        24 days ago

        I really like Beehaw, it’s a very valuable instance that a has a unique place on Lemmy. That being said, do you think that being defederated from LW and SJW could impact the activity of the community?

        The one we’re currently in isn’t that active in the first place, and Lemm.ee federated with almost everyone.

        • Chris Remington
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          14 days ago

          That being said, do you think that being defederated from LW and SJW could impact the activity of the community?

          I don’t believe so, no.

    • Calavera
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      34 days ago

      You can criticize me but going to an instance called soccer instead of football is nuts for me

      • Chris Remington
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        24 days ago

        It’s available and someone from our football group is a moderator there. Convenience and an easy move.

        • Blaze (he/him)
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          Creating a community doesn’t take more than a few clicks. I created !lego@piefed.social today and already got some posts with more than 20 upvotes and 62 subscribers.

          We’re lucky enough to have some time to redirect people to new communities from the existing ones compared to an overnight shutdown.

          By the way, which team do you support?

          • Chris Remington
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            14 days ago

            By the way, which team do you support?

            Manchester City and New England Revolution

            • Blaze (he/him)
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              24 days ago

              Manchester City

              Tough season for you all, good luck for the next one!

              • malfisya
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                24 days ago

                Calling third place finish a “tough season” is really flattering. The standard is way too high.

                We go again next season

                • Blaze (he/him)
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                  24 days ago

                  I remember a rough patch around November? Also with KDB leaving that will probably be a change for the team?

              • Chris Remington
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                14 days ago

                Too many injuries. Can’t believe they still got 3rd place though.

                Who do you support?

  • Rose56
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    24 days ago

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

    • @UlrikHD@lemm.eeOPM
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      14 days ago

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

        • @UlrikHD@lemm.eeOPM
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          24 days ago

          I never really wanted to be the main moderator in the first place, I’d be happy to let someone else take the responsibility.

          I’ll still put up a poll to see what the community at large wants though.

          • Blaze (he/him)
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            24 days ago

            I think you do a good job, especially with troubleshooting the bot. You don’t have to be the main mod, but if you could keep maintaining the bot on the new community, that would be nice.

  • malfisya
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    45 days ago

    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.

    • Chris Remington
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      14 days ago

      The football community already exists there but it is empty and the person who created it hasn’t posted in one year. I’m not sure how anyone could go about gaining control of it.

      On the other hand, I have a very positive relationship with the admins of that instance. It’s an option to consider I guess.

      • Blaze (he/him)
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        14 days ago

        Hello @remington@beehaw.org , I just messaged QuentinCallaghan as well, he said that he would grant you the mod right once you make a post to that community.

        One thing to keep in mind: moderation isn’t completely functional from a non-local account, so you might consider making a sopuli account first.

      • Blaze (he/him)
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        14 days ago

        I’ve also always had very nice interactions with the main admin, I guess asking him mod rights over that empty community shouldn’t be an issue.

        • Chris Remington
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          14 days ago

          I guess asking him mod rights over that empty community shouldn’t be an issue.

          That would be the only way I could imagine it working out. Hopefully, he’s technically proficient enough to do it. I’ll send them a direct message here in a bit.

  • Rose56
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    15 days ago

    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.

    • Rose56
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      15 days ago

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

      • Rose56
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        15 days ago

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

          • Rose56
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            24 days ago

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