From fediverse.observer, these are the top ten by active users:
- piefed.social (too big?)
- piefed.blahaj.zone (LGBT-focused)
- piefed.world (same team as lemmy.world, potentially too big?)
- piefed.ca (canada-focused)
- feddit.online
- piefed.zip (same team as lemmy.zip)
- quokk.au (blocks feddit.org?)
- piefed.au (too small?)
- crust.piefed.social (beta testing for piefed.social)
- anarchist.nexus (same team as lemmy.dbzer0.com)
It seems like feddit.online and piefed.zip might be the most neutral, general instances, not too big or too small.
What are people’s thoughts on the above list? Any aspects I’ve overlooked?
If you consider how subscribing actually works (or rather: has to work) with federated content, this isn’t surprising. There could be some mechanism that uses the old community and some sort of meta-post to trigger the subscriptions to migrate, but the hard part is making that abuse-resistant. Probably too hard?
I know that Rimu does want to make it so subscribers from a community migrating are transferred. But I imagine this would only work for users based on piefed instances.
One possible method to limit abuse would be manual approval from both instances.
The Piefed community migration requires a manual request that needs to be approved.
From my discussions with the world admins, they can actually move subscribers between LW and piefed.world (but unlike piefed.social, they won’t move posts/comments).