Unfortunately that’s on lemmy.ml, which as the mod has already acknowledged, really limits how far they can go. I agree that it kind of sucks, and a huge migration like this is never going to go perfectly, but I’d much rather get it right and have a viable community than not create one at all. I’m happy to make them a mod though so that they can administer both, I’m not trying to “compete” with them or anything like that, in fact I’d much rather not have to put the work in all by myself.

The devs are already working to solve this problem through community grouping. You can follow the progress here: #3071 / #818