Thanks for your help! I was a ship at sea there for a moment lol

This seems to be Piefed-specific; if I'm understanding correctly, it seems that the only way to "migrate" a Lemmy community from one instance to another is to simply make a new one on the new instance, and make a post in the old instance directing people to the new one. It doesn't seem like it's possible to actually transfer the content, posts, subscribers, etc from one to the other.

Does that seem correct? I'll keep studying up on this regardless.

Also, what about lemmy.ml instead of lemmyworld? isn't that one of the "official" dev-run instances?

I've spent the last couple hours investigating, and yeah, it seems like lemmyzip is the right call. Do you know how to migrate a community? I'm not sure where to start.

Thanks for such a clear answer! I'm definitely not interested in ever getting involved in Lemmy Drama, so it does seems like LW might not be the way to go. I'll do a little digging; Lemmy.zip seems good, but feel free to throw any other suggestions my way!

My info is a little outdated, but it seems like the obvious choice would be Lemmy.world - is that a mistake?

My information is a little outdated; do you know why some people seem to have a strong aversion to migrating to Lemmy.world?

Man, have I been out of the loop. I'm looking into a few new instances.

What's everyone's feelings on Lemmy.world? I know there's been some huff about them in the past, but I'm interested in stability and ease for the most users.

I'm considering a move - will update the community shortly.

You should post this in I Made This

I've lived in 20 different cities/towns/villages across five States, and I can tell you that no one really knows how to define these things accurately, at least in common parlance.

Tappahannock VA is absolutely what I'd consider to be a rural town, but when compared to a place like Waterboro ME, it feels positively metropolitan.

I think, in general, a "rural town" is usually understood to be a relatively small, centralized area of mixed-use zoning in typically agricultural regions; a population under 10,000 with a few main streets with things like general stores, a few diners or restaurants, a grocery market, and single-family homes. These places almost always grow around farmland.

A "village" might be something more along the lines of Pleasantville NY or Cornish ME. They don't rely on agriculture and have centralized social dynamics.

There's also, wildly, a difference between "rural towns" and "small towns." Golden CO is not a rural town, even though it shares many of the characteristics of one. It's a "small town."

That being said, people from New York City will often refer to Boston as a "town" so I guess a lot of this is relative.

Respectfully, there is absolutely nothing typical about New York City. There isn't a single other city in the entire country that even begins to compare to NYC's size, scale, and complexity.

A "typical" American city would be something like White Plains NY, Scottsdale AZ, or Richmond VA.