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Well done!

Well done!

history is (repeatedly) showing it to you that these bets are not good.

History shows you every day that people prefer to post on other instances than yours.

https://lemm.ee/c/football@lemm.ee has 4 regular posters (Rose, Sabrewake, Ulrik and I). I'm not forcing them to post there, they decide it by themselves.

viewfinder.pro

Last post 28 days ago: https://viewfinder.pro/?dataType=Post&listingType=Local&sort=New

healthy.community

Last post 21 days ago: https://healthy.community/?dataType=Post&listingType=Local&sort=New

Not sure if that qualifies as activity

Another fact:

• https://soccer.forum/ gets posts by a single person
• https://metacritics.zone/ has only posts from you
• same for https://nba.space/c/nba

Maybe reflect on why people don't post on your instances instead of painting other instances in a bad light.

Piefed has a community migration feature: https://piefed.social/post/667044

Basically, find the piefed.social copy of your community and then look for the 'move to piefed.social' link in the sidebar.

@rimu@piefed.social

Then let's stop discussing hypothetical scenarios altogether if we can't assess them?

https://piefed.social/post/817564

They did not, you're looking at linked instances

Niche topics were always going to be dependent on numbers.

I'm the single contributor to !lego@lemm.ee , one of the most popular toys on the planet. And I didn't expect another regular poster to appear before we reached 60k monthly active users.

"Build it, and they will come" isn't really true nowadays. We're competing with Reddit, but also TikTok and Discord, where people seem to spend most of their time.

Indeed, but that's true in both scenarios

https://piefed.social/post/667044

Basically, find the piefed.social copy of your community and then look for the 'move to piefed.social' link in the sidebar.

@rimu@piefed.social

Less communities on their instances means less traffic, less activities, less moderation reports (they would have to deal only with users on their own instances)

Those users are the same as in our universe for lemm.ee as a user instance. They stir the same dramas, create the same number of alts, violate rules in a similar way.

if even then they are overloaded with work, they could decide to scale down the operation before reaching burning-out point: close the instance for new registrations, make user registration conditional on payment/donation, etc.

That was available to the lemm.ee admins in our scenario as well. They preferred to shut the instance down rather than reduce.

Nothing is settled yet, this is just a precautionary measure.

A shame the communities will be lost in the transition, the movies/television communities are genuinely cursed. This is the 4th or 5th time people moved that community.

It's okay, it's routine now

!meta@lemm.ee has a few posts with alternatives

But since then, we reached 47k monthly active users, mostly thanks to the federated model.

Beehaw has 415 monthly active users, and is highly moderated, so if people are looking for a smaller experience, I would recommend that instead

Also, have a look at this post: https://piefed.social/post/667044

Let's say we are in a different universe where lemm.ee is a users instance, and not a groups instances.

Drama still happens involving lemm.ee users.
Admins still get burnt out.
They still shut down the instance.

So indeed the communities wouldn't have to move, but the 5.5k monthly active users of Lemm.ee (out of 47k total) would still have to find a new instance.

Oh yeah, that was quite something too 😅