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 subscribed to this community with alts on the most populous instances:
Not sure if you’ve heard of this, but https://lemmy-federate.com/ is a tool which automatically does the same thing, and has the benefit of letting instance admins disable it as well if they don’t want it.
Thanks! I heard about it before, but I wasn’t completely sure it was working as most of the communities seemed “in progress”
Also having people commenting is a way to show familiar nicknames :)
Checking in at lemmy.dbzer0.com
Arrr
I can see it from lemmy.world
Commenting from Lemmy.SDF.org
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I have no idea how I got here
Still good to see you!
Subscribed from fanaticus.social.
Comment from SJW
Helloooo!
Hello!
Hi, good luck with the migration, we did something similar some time ago, moving !France@lemmy.world to another instance, jlai.lu, which is where I’m posting from currently 🤗
For now I’m only seeing @golli@feddit.de’s reply, and the bot below mine
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !france@lemmy.world
Oh yeah, I’m seeing 16 total comments now
C’est bon à savoir!
Pour être honnête, j’avais même zappé Jlailu, parce que je pense toujours que les gens vont surtout sur !forumlibre@jlai.lu pour ce genre de contenu
Bump
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
- !casualconversation@lemmy.world has 6.4k subscribers, with 4.1k monthly active users, it is not a new community starting to promote itself
- We polled the community to see if they were ok with moving here from LW last week: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/17963030
- This post is mostly a follow-up from a post in the original community following the poll: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/18196838
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.
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Commenting as per request both here an on matrix chat
Welcome back to the mod team!
