With all due respect, by “people” it’s just you. Yeah, some others in here have expressed discontent at this but they did it with a single comment, or moved on by now. Out of however many were actually pinged, it’s probably not a notable amount of the overall.

I’d like to add that despite me not really seeing this as an issue, I didn’t actually set this up. I was aware of it possibly happening, and saw no problem with it (I didn’t know how it would look when/if it did happen - it could’ve been done via DM for all I knew). But that goes my involvement in it. And no, the instance of “community completely changing url and moving” is practically the only instance in which I would ever not mind or support something like this, so it won’t be happening for just any future or hypothetical pinned post.

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.

I genuinely don’t get why someone’s notifications are so sacred to them to this extent. This was a one-off event that was done purely to get people migrating over to the new community. Which it seems to have done. Some people aren’t bothered by it, presumably because they did subscribe here.

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?

I don’t consider a one-off targeted notification as spam. You don’t have to “listen” to anything. You can just click ‘x’.

When did I say you have to subscribe and follow this 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.

It scraped comments, not subscribers. You commented here before.

Well movies and TV was dead anyway, but it had (has) 2.5k subscribers. There’s no way to actually gather up enough of those people at all without some kind of mass ping. Which would annoy people all the same.

Correct. There’s movies for that. It’s split into movies and television.

In the event of the transition, television will be promoted heavily. This particular community, moviesandtv has clearly seen better days. I used communities to promote ObscureMusic and quidlupled its activity (going from like 30 subscribers to over 165), and have had other people posting due to this.

Yeah, I made television because I didn’t think showsandmovies mod team was active. I was then headhunted to help out there. I don’t know where television stands now though even if I think it has the best name for… well, tv-posting. Whilst I agree with “showsandmovies” is an odd name as its been repurposed for TV primarily… but it seems to be the most popular and developed.

!trailers should be, imo, on the sidebar of showsandmovies.