So my instance used to run Lemmy, I changed it all over to PieFed but kept the domain the same and recreated all the communities again. None of the content moved over - I was running out of HDD and needed to wipe anyway, other instances already had the old stuff cached so it looked the same on their end.
The only real headache I ever found was that PieFed doesn’t (might be fixed?) support capitals in community names, so once recreated with a lowercase name those communities had a different ID on other Lemmy instances and would no longer federate. Oh and your subscriber numbers will forever look low, but the subbed people will stay subbed on their ends you just wont see it in the number.
So my instance used to run Lemmy, I changed it all over to PieFed but kept the domain the same and recreated all the communities again. None of the content moved over - I was running out of HDD and needed to wipe anyway, other instances already had the old stuff cached so it looked the same on their end.
The only real headache I ever found was that PieFed doesn’t (might be fixed?) support capitals in community names, so once recreated with a lowercase name those communities had a different ID on other Lemmy instances and would no longer federate. Oh and your subscriber numbers will forever look low, but the subbed people will stay subbed on their ends you just wont see it in the number.
Thanks that’s essentially exactly what I was thinking of doing! Thanks for writing it all up. I’ll take these and think on it