Your community will not go down with a software dying or a server dying. As long as the server does not die surprisingly, you can just move to a new server, announcing on the old server that you have moved. Active members will follow then.
If you wanted to create a long lasting community, is it better to create it on Piefed or on Lemmy? Does Piefed's development have the funding to go on long term?
Submitted 2 months ago by DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works to [deleted]
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Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
kindred@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Can you carry over the posts and comments to the new community?
If the community has to start over from zero, that can be a huge loss.
Keeponstalin@lemmy.world 2 months ago
From Lemmy to Piefed I believe so. I don’t know any other details tho
Blaze@piefed.zip 2 months ago
.zip has both piefed.zip and Lemmy.zip, they publish monthly reports including their finances: https://lemmy.zip/post/52485712?scrollToComments=true
Very nice admins. I could see them last quite a while.
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 2 months ago
Unless I’m misunderstanding your question, the specific server is more important than the software they’re running; it doesn’t matter if the software is being developed long-term if the server shuts down in the short-term… your community will go down with it.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
This is the answer. Pretty sure, for example, MetaFilter is running bespoke code for their forum (which means no development at all), and it’s been online since 1999.
YetAnotherNerd@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Why does bespoke have to mean no development? If it’s custom code, big whoop - provided the dev either made it easy to modify, or still helps out with it. Our company has tons of bespoke apps that get developed regularly.
(That said, I don’t know what metafilter is)