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  • There are absolutely viable forks/rewrites of the Lemmy backend. Sublinks was the one I was keeping an eye on, but progress seems to have slowed down significantly on that. It's supposed to be a drop-in replacement for Lemmy that continues working with current apps.

    • !piefed_meta@piefed.social is definitely more promising

      • I thought part of the difference with piefed is that it's not a drop-in replacement that can hook into current databases, such that an instance would have to start afresh on a new subdomain, and users would have to sign-up again, re-subscribe to their communities, etc. Is that the case, or was I mistaken?

        • You're correct. On the other hand, Piefed is more or less usable today, and regularly gets updates. Sublinks hasn't had meetings or progress for over 6 months.

          • For better or worse that still makes migration a much bigger pill to swallow though.

            • Seems like everyone just proved yesterday that a community could be migrated in a few hours if needed 😄

              More seriously, you're correct, it will probably happen gradually with a few early adopters

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