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It’s entirely possible to host an instance that doesn’t require emails to sign up. Blahaj lemmy and piefed don’t for example. We don’t have a spam problem though, because we require manual approvals of new accounts. Lack of email verification is only a problem when it’s combined with open signup

I make an exception to that rule for the /c/superbowl. I love seeing a bunch of owls suddenly appear in my feed :)

There is a manual way to import posts one at a time, so that’s a option.

That’s exactly how I did it when we spun up the new instance.

And once all the of the content was here, we transferred kicked off the transfer process.

It’s not feature complete, as you said. In our case, it broke, because of a bug around the way it handled community names that use upper case letters, which required editing the database to fix

But despite that, at the end of it, we have the old content on the new community. Even if it doesn’t federate, it’s not lost

The piefed community migration feature does import old posts, but it doesn’t refederate them, so they’ll only be visible to local users

I tried to love it. It’s one of the most feature rich fediverse platforms out there. It has groups built in out of the box, it talks to Diaspora as well as Activitypub… But it’s just… not nice to use.

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People must really like Pie! We just did the same thing with Blåhaj Lemmy yesterday!

The last thing lemmy needs is more centralisation on lemmy.world