I subscribed to this community with alts on the most populous instances:
- lemmy.world
- sh.itjust.works
- lemmy.ml
- beehaw.org
- discuss.tchncs.de
- reddthat
- lemmy.blahaj.zone
- lemmy.ca
So those at least should be covered, but it’s always good to see if people from different instances are correctly federated too
I don’t like that approach. People will discover your community and subscribe on their own. There’s places to advertise new communities.
TBF, it’s more about migrating the community over and trying to not lose people who didn’t see the announcement post.
I don’t see how would making a dozen alts and subscribing to it help with that specific purpose. This tactic is only useful for making the community posts visible on the all tab of these communities.
Isn’t that the point? If you’re one of the many who likely missed the announcement post, you’ll still see it in your global feed. The old comm was big enough that it’d have been on the global feeds of all the major instances, so this is just replacing the old comm with the new one in those feeds.
Hello,
First of all, thank you for your work on your instance and all the integrations you did.
Regarding your criticism about this approach, I see where you come from, and I wouldn’t want new communities to use it. However, for the context
Community migrations are a sensitive topic, a lot of the mods I talk with don’t want to leave Lemmy.world, even if they are now a bottleneck (technical details here: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/17963030).
This migration is a test to see if migration of large communities can be done, hence this approach of making sure that the new community would be visible to the most users possible.
I hope this make our approach more reasonable, but let me know what you think.