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.