I know that is bs because I haven’t been there in days and I probably added 100 visits a day to their stats. So they’re at least a couple hundred shy.
The article mentions 55.31 million daily visits (average). You decreased their stats by 0.00018%. Even if all new active lemmy users had your level of activity, the other site would still return to normal. There are just so many other users.
Sad to hear, but thanks for the transparency! And for hosting this far.
For everyone else who’s considering to move to another instance: I found these related GitHub issues:
There is also a “Subscribed communities copyer”, though it did not work for me: https://sh.itjust.works/post/53184