I’ve moved 1/2 of my lemm.ee communities to a new instance. It was a tremendous amount of work because I like to have archive posts that can be referenced from inside of lemmy (so had to repost the reference material).
In the future lemmy would benefit from a community backfill mechanism (kinda like piefed, but also with refederation of the backfill)
In the future I would change how I backfill posts, I’d make blank posts with a title like [backfill] or [blank], get them federated for a day or two… then edit the posts for the backfill content. This would be less of a burden on users browsing by NEW getting a absolute tidalwave of archival content they may not like
My migrated community already got a YPTB post (nutrition communities bring out the passion in people), it will probably take a week or two until everything settles down.
Reimporting ban lists into a new community could also benefit from automation.
I’ve moved 1/2 of my lemm.ee communities to a new instance. It was a tremendous amount of work because I like to have archive posts that can be referenced from inside of lemmy (so had to repost the reference material).
The move made me think that reference posts should probably be hosted elsewhere once they are mature enough. A bit like https://www.privacyguides.org/en/ which started as a subreddit and then became it’s own thing.
dont forget to use https://lemmy-federate.com/ so they get federated with other instances
It’s really interesting to see so many communities move to piefed.social. I’ve always been a proponent of spreading out the fediverse though, shame it’s all the flagship piefed instance. Is there a generic piefed instance that isn’t .social?
!WomensStuff@lazysoci.al has lost members recently idk why. From what I gather from other comments, the subscribers figure yoyos. We’re still doing well though and I’m helped by some brilliant people.
I’ve taken over !lemmybewholesome@lemmy.world and I’m looking forward to expanding and growing that.
As someone who does not subscribe to WomensStuff, so I only have general advice for you:
- If you or your instance (still forget the specifics) is opted into Lemmy Federate, then the bot drops a subscription when a real user subscribes. If that real user unsubscribes, I’m not sure the bot picks it back up.
- People deleting their accounts or getting banned from an instance, perhaps? Not sure if banning from an instance drops all the user’s subscriptions there.
- Fatigue or dislike with the posts there.
- Maybe just plain old federation issues? I know I have a community where my subscription is still pending, because the instance has massive federation issues.
It happens. I wouldn’t worry too much about it unless it drops a good fraction and stays down.
Ahhhhh nice one thanks 😊
