In my mind that’s a perfect opportunity to choose a smaller instance as coverting existing subscribers is easy.

Also it’s weird to me how everyone says that Mali situation came out of nowhere. It was always in the contract as the .ml domain was given out for free by a private company that had a 10 year contract for that domain, it expired on July 17. It even was mentioned everywhere a few weeks ago when US sent military documents to one of the .ml emails instead of .mil.

There are plenty of instances that have staying power due to how they are run. In fact I would say that lemmy.world had the most stability/technical issues out of all due to it’s size.

I’m aware as to why they are moving and my comment was related to the replacement instance, not the current one.

Also the 10 year contract with the private company that Mali government signed is ended and now it’s back under Mali control, so not sure what misuse you are taking about.

I understand and I have no issue with communities existing on big isntances, but moving extablished community is a perfect opportunity to choose a smaller instance as it’s easy to convert existing subscribers.

I’m not talking about users, I’m talking about communities. Moving from one big instance to the other is not spreading out. Just check this community’s sidebar listing “Other Gaming Communities” to see “how spread out” it is.

It’s very discouraging to see communities move from one big instance to the other instead of spreading out.