When a community needs to move to another instance, it can be a rocky process.
It doesn't need to be, though - as long as someone on your instance has been a part of the community for a while your instance will already have quite a lot of the content from the old community. All we need to do is change our record of which instance the community belongs to and that's what PieFed's new 'Move community' feature does. Check out the video for a quick demo.
The full process is:
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Ensure the copy of the community on this instance has been active long enough to receive a decent amount of posts. The move process will not copy posts so having an account on this instance subscribed to it for a while is the only way to get old posts here.
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Lock the old community to by setting it to 'moderators only' so no one else can post in it.
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Create a post in the old community announcing the impending move to piefed.social. Paste the url of that post into the field below.
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Submit the 'move community' form (there is a link in the sidebar of every remote community) to send the request to piefed.social admins.
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piefed.social admins will review your request, turn this community into a local one and contact you.
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Update your announcement post in the old community to encourage people to join the new community at
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I don't want to force my ideas on people, I like to share and chat about them but I feel if I upload it myself I would kind of force the idea. Also it is his video I think he should be in control of where it is posted.
Really, as someone who regularly gets "you should give an archive.org link as well" when I post paywalled content, I really appreciate when people do provide additional links so that I can add them to the OP. It feels more like we are collaborating.
I get that point but I don't say "you should" but rather "you could". Also I think the example you give is a bit different because here we have someone (an individual) who took his time to create something which is different to other people sharing additional info.
Rimu is already quite busy with the Piefed updates. He took the last resistance path to upload the video. If people want to promote Peertube in the process, they're free to reupload the content.
Seems counterproductive to me to expect one person to do all the work instead of collaborating
I don't think we will find an aggreement.
I don't want to escalate this discussion. It was just an idea of maybe putting it also on PeerTube without force, expectations or demands.
Seems like we have a different interpretation of your first comment.
Let's agree to disagree, have a good one!