Again, if I had more time to evaluate alternatives I likely would have gone down this path. What I will say is if a migration tool for communities is developed, I will look into migrating again in order to accomplish this goal
I can't just choose a smaller instance blindly when I'm trying to build for the long term. I need time to vet admins, align ideals, understand the infrastructure, place trust in the admins that they won't just give up, or make a critical error, etc. It's a fundamental different calculus than just making a user account. Even a large instance like Fmhy fumbled the ball and had their domain sniped. I need guarantees that where I choose to park my community will still be around when the going gets tough. This all takes time, and prior to Mali, I had time. Once Fmhy fell, I wasn't sure if I had hours, let alone days or weeks. I chose to place my trust in the largest instance because they have the best track record, not just on lemmy, but also on mastodon.
As for being taken by surprise, not everyone follows TLD news. I thought ml for was machine learning, not the country of Mali. And I only heard of all of this this week. Needless to say, I get the concerns and sympathize with them, but I made the best choice for my community.
That's a fair point on the sorting. I usually sort by hot, so that's probably why I didn't see the same thing as you. And yeah, it did come off as frustrated. But if you've seen 5-6 posts I can see the need to tell me to chill 😂. I'm always happy to talk things out. Glad we are ending this on a positive note. Thanks for the well wishes! Same to you!
It really depends on what instance you are on. Your all is different from mine. Only one of my posts made it to my all. So I'm sorry you are getting a lot of spam on this. I appreciate the feedback. Yesterday I cross posted the announcement a lot, and today I just posted it on the other community I mod (Nintendo) and once more on the community itself. After this weekend I'll be less vocal about it.
If they decide to take it back, then that's their decision. We will see what happens. For now, it isnt locked, so people can post there if they want, and I'm still the mod. So I'm not squatting, and I will be posting discussion threads there as well. I am just telling users that I will be posting to the new location, and since I post 99% of all content currently, I highly advise that people subscribe to the new location for the best experience.
I appreciate the feedback, but considering that lemmy.ml is a FOSS focus instance and not a general purpose instance, I don't believe the admins are going to step in and prop it up like lemmy.world did when Android left for lemdro.id. PS5 doesn't really fit in that instance, but I could be wrong. For now, it's still my community, one that I build up over the course of weeks and weeks. It is important to me that I give subscribers a chance to see the change and migrate over. Closing the community abruptly in their face is not something I'm willing to do. If you follow the link to the original post you will see my plan for migration is just to cross post the weekly discussion threads with locked comments and directions on how to migrate to take part in the discussion.
With all that being said, feel free to unsubscribe from the old community and you won't have to see any migration related posts. I won't be posting any new migration related posts in the new community
This was a large consideration I made. Lemmy is still very early and total users are still miniscule compared to something like Reddit or even Mastodon. So I believe concerns over centralization or decentralization are a little premature. But I understand and share in the concern.
And I established on lemmy.ml originally when my only real options at the time were ml and beehaw, and beehaw was more restrictive on signups and didn't allow for community creation. Things change fast.
I addressed this across several comments in a lot of other communities yesterday, so feel free to check out my post history for more context. But, I am happy to address it again here.
I was already researching gaming specific instances for a potential future migration, instances like Lemmy.zip. I have been hearing of migration tools being worked on, so I thought that when a tool became available, I would be able to act in the best interest of the fediverse and spread out. Unfortunately, the Mali situation came out of left field. Fmhy was wiped out entirely without notice. If lemmy.ml is wiped out, PS5 gets killed outright. So, for the sake of the community and the sake of my subscribers, half of which are lemmy.world users, I had to act swiftly. This is the direction I chose in the time I believe I have available. I will continue to look out for migration tools, and carefully consider my options down the road for a potential future migration of PS5 or the establishment of a PS6 community.
Yeah, let them be, or release your games on PC. They would make so much money it's ridiculous. I would quite possibly rebuy all of my favorite Nintendo games if they released on PC
I would have, but unfortunately, the Mali situation does not afford me the luxury of time, as they could shut down the ML domain at any time, and they have already done so to another instance. Lemmy.ml being shutdown will kill my community outright. I respect that you disagree and I understand the reasons. I actually agree with you. If a community migration tool comes along, I will look into moving off of lemmy.world to a reliable and trustworthy gaming centric instance.
As for .world not being able to shoulder the burden. If they didn't think they could handle the load, they can close signups and restrict new community generation. Since they haven't, then they are choosing to accept these users and communities with open arms. I actually personally raised this issue with them when they surpassed lemmy.ml in total and active users. They are confident in their abilities to grow and manage. The admins were made aware of my intent to migrate and even helped me coordinate the transfer of ownership of !ps5@lemmy.world to my account for the purpose of doing so. They are very much in the loop on this.
I understand that this move is not one that is best for the fediverse, but at this time it is what is best for my community. The Mali situation does not provide me enough time to consider better alternatives. I live to fight another day. When a community migration tool comes along, I will consider migrating again. For now, this is my decision and what I think is best.
I love the detailed write up and certainly think that option 2 is the most likely. But the kicker for me was your last line lmao. 🤣