Hey all,
everybody pray for sh.itjust.works as I have chosen that instance for our new community.
Why sh.itjust.works? First, because it was the easiest to set up. Secondly, it is a pretty unserious instance, and if there is one thing I want for cartographyanarchy is to continue our tradition of whimsey and white collar crime.
Please take a moment to join our new community, and please make at least one post to inflate our numbers to concerning levels.
Thank you everyone who has helped out with this project, y’all rock, and I’m glad we can be accomplices.
~meep
Thank you!
Extra request: mind locking this lemm.ee community?
The way federation works is that each instance has a “copy” of remote communities, so when lemm.ee goes down every server that federated with lemm.ee will have this community still (cool for keeping the old data available).
The problem with that is that a new user on an “old” instance might find this community (through comment/post search for example), post something, but it will only be seen by other users of the same instance.
You should keep these posts stickied (they will stay stickied even after lemm.ee goes down) and lock the community from user new posts if possible. Up to you though :) thanks again meep!
Seconding the request to lock this community. I’ve also seen some other communities rename their title to add something like [Migrated] right at the start of the title/name so that it’s exceedingly obvious to anyone visiting that the community has moved. Finally, another best practice I’ve seen is to link the !community link for the new community at the top of the old community side bar.
Here’s an example of all three from another community moving out of lemm.ee after the announcement: !casualconversation@lemm.ee
+1 for this, great idea.