My main thinking here, is that the main reason to migrate a community anyway, is because an instance goes down. But once that instance is down, its impossible to migrate it securely anyway… otherwise communities could be easily hijacked.
I understand doubts, especially if there is a lot of work to do I think it is right to ask as many questions as possible.
Personally I think of at least two other reasons for changing the instance:
the first is a possible problem with the moderators / admin. For example in case they did questionable operations.
The second concerns me more personally: I opened a community here because there are no Italian instances. It took me a few months to convince people to sign up here, it would be ironic to tell them “no, now re-sign up somewhere else”.
Since in this thread we talked about how to invite people to subscribe and / or how to create more instances for me this is one of the reasons that pushes me not to try.
In the meantime, thanks for the discussion and listening
My main thinking here, is that the main reason to migrate a community anyway, is because an instance goes down. But once that instance is down, its impossible to migrate it securely anyway… otherwise communities could be easily hijacked.
I understand doubts, especially if there is a lot of work to do I think it is right to ask as many questions as possible.
Personally I think of at least two other reasons for changing the instance:
the first is a possible problem with the moderators / admin. For example in case they did questionable operations.
The second concerns me more personally: I opened a community here because there are no Italian instances. It took me a few months to convince people to sign up here, it would be ironic to tell them “no, now re-sign up somewhere else”.
Since in this thread we talked about how to invite people to subscribe and / or how to create more instances for me this is one of the reasons that pushes me not to try.
In the meantime, thanks for the discussion and listening