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.

[–] Blaze@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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.

[–] wahming@monyet.cc 1 points 7 months ago

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.