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.

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?

My biggest community is hosted on slrpnk and that's as down as can be right now.

Luckily I didn't host anything on lemm.ee

I moved [email protected] and [email protected]

I still have to move [email protected] and [email protected], probably at some point next week

[email protected] 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 [email protected] and I'm looking forward to expanding and growing that.

[email protected] is doing relatively well, albeit it's mostly me doing the posting. Let's how much it can grow in the next few months.

[email protected] is seeing slow, but stable growth.

Moved most of the community to different instance but still trying to find a place for [email protected] and CassetteeFuturism. (Don't want to repeat the mistake of making too much communities on a single instance)

edit: a lot of this is wrong. See my reply.

I'm still up in the air about what to do with [email protected]. My first instinct was to take this as an opportunity for consolidation and to try to grow an RTS community by posting to [email protected].

But it doesn't look great right now. In the original community I could pretty reliably get at least 2 or 3 upvotes indicating people saw it and appreciated it, in this new community I'm getting nothing. And neither is the sole other poster, @[email protected], who was posting to it. And the other related communities, [email protected] and [email protected] are even more devoid of response.

So I'm wondering if part of the issue is that reddthat may be too small of an instance and many users may not be able to find it due to federation issues. And maybe I should take the opportunity to sync over to Piefed, or launch a community in one of the instances recommended by @[email protected] or @[email protected] in the community's announcement post (or go with my initial idea of lemmy.zip).

But obviously the issue can't only be the size of the instance, since even the two larger existing instances are seeing so much less engagement than the one I'm moving away from. I'm at a bit of a loss as to why this could be and what to do.

Has everyone with a lemm.ee community settled to a new location yet?

Mostly.

For the communities I moderate, I've got 4 of 5 done:

• [email protected] already consolidated with [email protected] a couple months ago.
• [email protected] moved to [email protected] (Thanks, Blaze, for your leadership on this one)
• [email protected] consolidated with [email protected] (not ideal, might consider [email protected] in the future)
• [email protected] moved to [email protected]
• [email protected] Not sure what to do with this one. I never had grand plans for it, but the community/instance name combo (referencing the "lemme smash" meme) was too good to pass up. The wordplay wouldn't be the same on another instance. Any suggestions?

For the communities I'm subscribed to, most of which have no active mod, 6 out of 8 have found new homes.

Suggested:

• [email protected] moved to [email protected]
• [email protected] consolidate to [email protected]
• [email protected] consolidate to [email protected]
• [email protected] moved to [email protected]
• [email protected] moved to [email protected]
• [email protected] moved to [email protected] using Mbin's migration tool (Thanks, @[email protected] for this one)

Pending:

• [email protected]
• [email protected]

Any suggestions for these last two, or for [email protected]?

Former 3 year veteran of lemm.ee and I got to say the instance was where I first learned of the federated web.

But as for the people who had to be jerks and the small admin pool, it was doomed to die. But none the less, things were going to end. Even without the problems they had at the end.