As some of you may know, !wholesome@reddthat.com is now more active than this community. Reddthat is a nice instance, and having the community there allows us to spread the communities across the different instances.
As it is usually easier for people to subscribe to only community, we are thinking about creating a pinned post here, pointing to !wholesome@reddthat.com, and lock the community.
If needed, the community can always be unlocked in the future.
Examples of other communities doing the same
But, consolidating 2-3 similar communities into 1 community on 1 server is the opposite of being distributed across the threadiverse 😕
Network effect is still at play, look at Lemmy.world place among the most active communities: https://piefed.zip/communities?search=&home_select=any&subscribe_select=any&topic_id=0&feed_id=0&language_id=0&instance=&sort_by=active_weekly+desc
You can see that the vast majority of the communities are hosted on LW.
Moving the active community to another instance (Reddthat) is a way to ensure the platform is more reliant. And should Reddthat go down, we could just reopen this one and discuss here where to go next.
You’re still arguing for consolidation by pushing to have a single community. That’s a single point of failure.
If there’s a move to Reddthat and that server goes suddenly and unexpectedly down in 3 months, how do you organize a migration to another server?
Meanwhile if there’s 3 communities doing the same thing on different servers, you have backups
Good point, it’s easy manageable in the future