Following up on this thread: https://lemm.ee/post/58774156?scrollToComments=true , which was used to announce people that we were moving (similar to https://lemmy.world/post/24312613)
General feedback was negative.
Lessons learned: find a way to notify only subscribers
An admin told me that if this kind of action os coordinated with the community instance admins, they could consider sending a mass direct message, which could then also target only subscribers.
This would require direct database access.
For context, the previous experience was https://lemmy.world/post/24312613
Feedback there was
thanks, I’m sure I only shitposted one time here about football’s cultural atmosphere or game theory/sportsmanship in general.
Thank you for the heads up folks
As a lemm.ee user myself, I approve of this.
I saw the automod tag everybody, and that’s a really nice solution you’ve come up with
I’m also not subscribing to the new one b/c I’m starting to get annoyed with the notion that communities need to be consolidated. That’s not a discussion for this post, though.
This really was a Nicole from Toronto moment.
I really can’t think of a better solution then an @ everyone ping to be fair.
I feel like people on Lemmy are more… hmm, how to articulate… Aware of online hygiene? Quicker to be fatigued by the grievances found on other platforms that they don’t want to see on here. I think that may contribute to the hesitancy and protest regarding this method of communicating a community migration.
All I know is that a mass ping needs to have the blow softened a bit so people aren’t so upset. A pinned post sure, or maybe a roll call post asking people to comment acknowledgement of the move or notify they do not require a ping? Or perhaps set up a bot to post a “We are moving instances” image every once and a while so people can come across it in their feed? Have a bot crosspost new posts to the new community instance?
Either way, I think people will be mad about being pinged no matter what you do.