I agree with migrating the !casualconversation community to lemm.ee
[Outdated, please look at pinned post] Casual Conversation
Share a story, ask a question, or start a conversation about (almost) anything you desire. Maybe you'll make some friends in the process.
RULES
- Be respectful: no harassment, hate speech, bigotry, and/or trolling
- Encourage conversation in your post
- Avoid controversial topics such as politics or societal debates
- Keep it clean and SFW: No illegal content or anything gross and inappropriate
- No solicitation such as ads, promotional content, spam, surveys etc.
- Respect privacy: Don’t ask for or share any personal information
Related discussion-focused communities
- !actual_discussion@lemmy.ca
- !askmenover30@lemm.ee
- !dads@feddit.uk
- !letstalkaboutgames@feddit.uk
- !movies@lemm.ee
We've done a community migration of /c/anime to !anime@ani.social and lemmy users are incredibly smart (and good looking) so it'll work.
Definitely!
I would like to keep the !casualconversation community on lemmy.world
lemm.ee for the win! I don’t mind moving communities, as long as there’s a general announcement somewhere so I don’t forget to subscribe to the new one.
Agreed. Migration is no problem, that's the strength of the fediverse, right?. Communication is the most important factor!
Thank you for your message
You will lose people that don't check Lemmy regularly and don't see the migration post (and don't visit the community directly).
I assume you will lock the existing community to force the move and stop double posting?
Yes
create another post to redirect people to the new community (probably locking the previous community temporarily to ensure that people would go to the new one) on the new instance
Why only temporarily though?
It could be permanent, I said temporary because we could always reevaluate after a few weeks.
I was just thinking about when !android@lemmy.world got locked because !android@lemdro.id was created, and then people complained that they wanted both to coexist.
I guess if once the vote is done, the 13 or so people who want to keep in on LW want to be able to reopen it once the migration is over, that could be discussed.
I agree with migrating the !casualconversation community to lemm.ee
It concerns me the volume of communities and even users on LW, so I'm totally on board with us spreading some of the load by the way of migrating to another instance.
Hopefully it won't be a difficult process.
Thank you for your feedback!
I would like to move the !casualconversation community to another instance (detail in comments)
How does one migrate a community?
Basically, create a new one one the new instance, and tell everyone to move there.
Posts will be kept on the old community, but due to the nature of this community, it shouldn't be an issue. People are mostly busy with current topics, I don't really see people coming back often to old posts about what everyone was doing on their week-end a few months ago.
Is there a way to shut down or loudly announce the move for new posters? Like changing the name of the community?
When searching for a new community, I hate when I see 3 or 4 versions of the same topic and I just pick one at random. Uncertain if I'm part of a dead one or not.
Yes
create another post to redirect people to the new community (probably locking the previous community temporarily to ensure that people would go to the new one) on the new instance
We can indeed also rename the community while it is locked to make sure that people get the message.
Moving is likely fine, though it would be interesting if you could track as many metrics as possible for this migration.
There are a lot of suggestions for handling moving content or for separating content from instances, etc, in the fediverse. So it might be helpful to show how this type of unsupported migration effort works and if it has a big impact on things like post counts, existing and new subscribers, etc.
It could help with priorities. Maybe, I dunno.