Man, I'm really not feeling the community merge. Moving the 5th biggest lemmy.world community to one that's like 12x smaller in subscription size feels like an unnecessary hit to any momentum it had. Especially because asking people who moved places like Reddit to move again does not sound like a good idea (though obviously less effort than moving to another website).
I do hope I'm completely wrong though and hope this comm gains lots of traction. Moving to an instance dedicated to tech does sounds like a good idea (although I don't know the benefits yet). Also, if it had to happen, better now than later.
Oh shoot you're right. Did not know that. From my community I see 1.6k, and from lemdro.id its 3.6k.