I think you're remembering wrong. The communities that have moved so far have been a manual affair: a post on the old community with a "We've moved" post, locking that community, and starting up brand new somewhere else. It's a fresh start - nothing is migrated. It's very likely to be technically impossible to move communities in the way you're imagining.
this post was submitted on 27 Nov 2024
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I think you might be right. Having found a couple of communities that moved instances this seems to be the way its going
That's indeed how I moved a few.
It's usually fine
It's the same way it worked on Reddit, so nothing new here.
there's an open issue filed for this https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4619
That's good. Thanks for the link
Make the existing one mod posts only and pin a post linking to the new one?
All will be lost.
Thanks. The more I look the more I fear that's the only way
It's not as bad as it sounds.