There are plenty of subreddits I left behind that I would like to see migrated to lemmy instances.
What do ya’ll think about creating the communities I want to be migrated and, this is the part I don’t feel great about, whole-sale copying the existing configuration of the communities i.e. all the side-bar content (rules, wikis, etc.)?
On the one hand, it seems like a good way to create continuity for users but on the other hand, it feels like stealing. Also, I am not necessarily the person who should be running these communities. I just want to create the spaces for people to move into and hand them off to those who want to run them and contribute content.
What do ya’ll think? How have you been approaching a migration from your favorite subreddits to your instance communities?
I think that’s a great idea! I reached out to the moderators using the “contact the moderators” button in the sidebar on one of my favorite reddit communities but never got a response. I’m not sure if anyone read it or if Reddit just made it go away.
I don’t want to spam a bunch of individual users so I might try discord.
I’ve got the same issue as you. My current approach is first educating myself on how to set it up. Then contacting the mods via modmail. Should they not answer I’d make a post in the sub with my offer to set it up and then transferring the mods to the old team.
If the community accepts the transfer is on a whole different page. Lots of comments I read might use this opportunity to quit social media for good. Some communities had great value to me, I hope they’ll further exist and ideally over here.
I don’t see too big of a problem in copying and referencing to a preexisting community wiki.