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Migration from Lemmy to Piefed? (news.erebion.eu)

submitted 5 hours ago by erebion@news.erebion.eu to c/piefed_meta@piefed.social

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Hello, I installed Lemmy a while ago only to realise it is Piefed that I want to use. Are there any migration paths?

I don't host any communities and I'm the only user. There are no images to migrate. Only need to migrate my replies and subscriptions. :)

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[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 2 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

If you are the only user, you might just use a another subdomain for Piefed, and migrate your subscriptions the account settings

[–] erebion@news.erebion.eu 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

No, I want to use the subdomain that I am currently on. But perhaps I can do some reverse proxy magic and host both by sending the requests to the right software? But I'm not yet sure what URLs I'd need to proxy.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 5 points 4 hours ago

You can export your lemmy account settings and then wipe the instance and install Piefed on the same domain and import your settings.

But you will lose your replies etc that way, and at least for 24h other instances will refuse to federate with your instance, but apparently after that they realize the instance has changed and will accept the new keys.

There is one former Lemmy instance that did it this way: https://quokk.au/ and apparently it works fine now.