I'm not inclined to be told what to do, as you so object to yourself when you believed you were being ordered about.

It's just a community notification, not some seedy product or some con or scam. It was always meant as a one-off thing (that's apparently been done before anyway by the same guy to zero issues for another community migration).

As I said, I'm not telling you to do anything. You don't want to subscribe, don't subscribe. You just got caught up on the mail-list because you at some point posted here (in the last X months). It's done now. It won't happen again.

It was sent only to people who had interacted on here. Ideally it'd have done subscribers, but that's not possible.

Better yet, lemmy would have a migration system. But that to be fair, is probably not a development priority.

That was the post on this thread, not the notification that was sent out. The notification just says "Automated migration notification" (and then a list of names). Are you of the opinion that the very announcement in this community is in fact trying to dictate to people that they must subscribe to the new community?

It wasn't /telling/ you to do anything. It was just a "hey, if you're interested". That's it. Ideally Lemmy would have a function native for community migration but this is the next best thing.

Please do not assume that everyone who ever made a drive-by comment on one of your posts that reached the front page is someone who wants to subscribe to your new community, and absolutely don’t come in my inbox to instruct me to go to a community based on the authority of some vote I wasn’t in. I wasn’t the one making your community lively, it was the people creating engaging posts.

Unfortunately, the bot or script can't ping by subscribers. So it did the next best thing: comments. It's not telling anyone to do anything.

It's only a one-off notification, dear me.

Most people won't see a pinned post if they're not actively browsing that instance at the time. Sure, some will, but not many depending on the community size.

There's no native way to inform people here of community migration at scale. It's just a notification that is somewhat targeted.

It's done now. It was just supposed to be pinging those who weren't aware, but had previously interacted on here. It can't scrape subscribers, so can only go by comments on here.

In this case, its automation. It's also a partial response to Reddits ineffectual moderator system. No-one is gunna spend all day monitoring comments from trolls and spammers on basic communities usually flooded with comments. I can't see anyone especially truly engaged to do so in (for example, and I have no idea if these communities do this) in r/aww or r/pics or r/jokes or r/videos, which are just pretty basic subreddits that aren't really hobbyist.

Whereas say, r/AskHistorians or some video game community or a music subgenre community likely will by their hobbyist nature attract more engaged moderators.