(De)centralisation of Lemmy communities in numbers

Ada · 8 months ago

(De)centralisation of Lemmy communities in numbers

@hamid@lemmy.world · 8 months ago

I’m extremely grateful for all the work Ruud and his team has done to make Lemmy.world possible but I see the limitations in it that I didn’t understand 9 months ago when I started. My communities are all pretty small and I guess I can just start over but I wish there was a way to migrate my comm to a new instance with my subscriber lists and posts so that I can move my sillyness to a small well maintained instance

@Blaze · 8 months ago

Hello,

I migrated a few communities in the past. Usually, it’s okay, except if you really have a lot of valuable content, it happens quite smoothly.

If people ask, it was from !dundermifflin@lemmy.ml to !dundermifflin@lemm.ee

@hamid@lemmy.world · edit-2 4 months ago

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@Blaze · 8 months ago

Negative:

Ask the community if they would be okay to move. If there is a big backlash, just stay there.
Open the new community on the new instance, add the sidebar, the banner, everything to make it look like the previous one.
Post the the old community a link to the new community. Lock the old community.
Add a few posts to the new community to make the transition smoother

@hamid@lemmy.world · 8 months ago

Ah I see, that isn’t really what I had in mind, bummer. That to me is starting over which is I guess the plan. Thanks!

@Blaze · 8 months ago

If you just cross post everything, most of the people will stay on the previous one