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 6 hours ago by DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works to [deleted]
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Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 5 hours ago
kindred@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours 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 hours ago
From Lemmy to Piefed I believe so. I don’t know any other details tho
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 6 hours 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 1 hour 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.