Lemmy is popular nowadays, yet is losing its active users

https://lemm.ee/post/3318472

Lemmy is popular nowadays, yet is losing its active users - lemm.ee

Similar to Mastodon’s spikes last year, it seems. Anyways, there is data to think about. Source [https://the-federation.info/platform/73]

I feel like that is more or less to be expected. A ton of people found Lemmy during the reddit protests. Now that the protests are gone and Lemmy has had its growing pains some users are leaving, going back to reddit or other places. If we keep using it and making content users will grow organically.

Lemmy is having an identity crisis of sorts. It was built to be decentralized yet we (users) seem to want to centralize everything and we all go to a few of the largest instances.

Having recently jumped from the largest instance to a small unknown one, I will say that it’s nice not having to deal with downtimes roughly 20% of the time when I try to use Lemmy.
I wish there was a way to migrate all my subscriptions, cause then I would probably change instances to ease the burden on my current instance.

There are ways! Have a look at these:

github.com/wescode/lemmy_migrate

github.com/CMahaff/lasim

GitHub - wescode/lemmy_migrate: Migrate your subscribed Lemmy communites to a new account

Migrate your subscribed Lemmy communites to a new account - wescode/lemmy_migrate

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github.com/CMahaff/lasim

There are a few others, mostly command line scripts.

GitHub - CMahaff/lasim: Move your Lemmy settings from one account to another

Move your Lemmy settings from one account to another - CMahaff/lasim

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I found this
GitHub - wescode/lemmy_migrate: Migrate your subscribed Lemmy communites to a new account

Migrate your subscribed Lemmy communites to a new account - wescode/lemmy_migrate

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I haven’t tried it out but have been watching it. Looks like a great tool!

Lemmy Account Settings Instance Migrator

GitHub - CMahaff/lasim: Move your Lemmy settings from one account to another

Move your Lemmy settings from one account to another - CMahaff/lasim

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It’s worked excellently. Very easy to use.
LASIM can copy your current subs to another instance, as others have said. I wish there was a way to migrate posts/comments over. I guess you could just link to your old account in your bio though.