Rough times, these are. Our beloved host-instance is retiring soon. (*gulp*) Which is why Lucky's on the lookout for any other instance & solution in which we might carry on...

If you want to stay on Lemmy, maybe europe.pub could be an alternative? Could be nice to be on a Europe-oriented instance.

I like PieFed a lot, but I'm not sure if there are any distinctly European instances out there. PieFed.social is run by a kiwi, which I have no issue with whatsoever.

It was Blaze who found that PieFed could migrate entire communities over, far as I understand: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/45876780?sort=Top
One of my big priorities here was to build a body of work that could be revisited and read at the user's leisure, going back to the very first post here. Makes sense for me, of course, since I put in hundreds of hours gathering that content, formatting it, and writing the mini-articles.
So starting a new community in Europe.Pub (etc) would be nice and all, but it would also be like 'starting over.' After 22mos of hard and dedicated work on my part, that's a bit much to swallow.
Still, arguably the most important aspects of all when it comes to an instance are: 1) what are its long-term prospects? and 2) how well is the place managed?, and 3) have their management staff found a way to deal with the inevitable bad actors that ultimately burned out the Lemm.ee staff..?
- Yeah, I think these are good priorities, and PieFed.social seems like a pretty reliable new home. I'm obviously a fan, considering that I've been using it since the start. :)
- Hello, I'm here
  We're quite happy at https://piefed.social/
  If you were to move your community there, this is how far the moved content would go: https://piefed.social/c/eurographicnovels@lemm.ee?sort=old&layout=list&content_type=posts&flair= (so around 1 year old, when Piefed.social itself was created)
  Not the whole content, but better than nothing.
  For the 3 questions, feel free to post to !piefed_meta@piefed.social , that you can access from your Lemmy account, as any other Piefed community
I'm just curious to find an instance that has the same hands-off approach to federation that allows me to choose what I see/block. Too many instance admins defederate on their own gumption, and while I'm sure there are reasons, I'd rather make the choice myself via blocking. I just found out about all this yesterday, and now it's homework time.
- Too many instance admins defederate on their own gumption
  Hmm, that's disappointing to hear. That kind of thing should happen pretty rarely, based on my understanding of good policy, transparency, and health of the Lemmysphere.
  Any examples, by chance? And backstory about possible 'feuds?'
- Yeah, I suspect they chose .pub because it was the cheapest available top level domain they could find "europe" for. I'm not associated with them at all, and I don't really know who's behind it, but it seems like they're doing a good job trying to create a European hub on here. :)

Is PieFed supported by any apps?

I'm homed on .world and can browse instances on piefed using boost no problem
- yeah, Piefed uses ActivityPub so that should work, I'm talking more about login in to an app using a Piefed account to interact with the threadyverse.
Interesting Q.
I did just create a PieFed acct, and could maybe test that out.
My phone is Android... what app were you wondering about?
- I was just wondering if there are any Android clients for PieFed. Lemmy has a ton, I have like 5 installed on my phone (Sync, Jerboa, Thunder, Summit..), but I don't think there's any for PieFed?

Any decision on this?

I don't really care where things move, piefed is a valid option and won't prevent lemmy users from interacting with the new community, but I'll resub regardless of where you end up.

I'm sure sopuli.xyz would welcome the community. It's a small instance like .ee, but with a longer history, and also already home to several communities larger than the instance they are on.

Sorry for the late reply, M.E.
Any decision on this?
TBH (hehe, how do we say "to be honest" in Dutch?) I'm still somewhat conflicted on this, but I think (and this will naturally somewhat depend on my ongoing eye health issues), I'm going to try carrying on. Which in this case involves attempting to migrate most of our content to PieFed.
I’m sure sopuli.xyz would welcome the community. It’s a small instance like .ee
Good to know! And I would not mind in the slightest joining you over there.
Eh, just as a quibble, tho-- last I checked, .ee was around the #2 - #3 instance across the Lemmysphere, with (easily) the greatest number of support servers and internal infrastructure to handle various user / data / attack loads, etc. IMO it was an absolute, shining gem of the Lemmysphere, and a terrible loss for Lemmy, on the whole.