Merge with bunnies@lemmy.world?

Hi! I have been directed to this community, which I was previously unaware of, by this comment. I'm a !bunnies@lemmy.world user, not a mod, but seeing as our mod @RojaBunny@lemmy.world seems to have abandoned Lemmy and the Bunnies community I thought I might get the ball rolling on figuring out how to deal with there being two bunny communities. Do we want to merge, and if so how do we want to approach it? I see four options:

Stay separate, do not merge
Merge: move Bunnies users to Rabbits
Merge: move Rabbits users to Bunnies
Merge: move users of both communities to a single new community

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May I suggest a strawpoll? (https://strawpoll.com/) Most people feel more comfortable "voting" for these matters when they're anonymous ;)
Personally I think mergig isn't a bad idea, but don't delete the community that ends up not being the main one. Rather post a sticky then like "we moved to XYZ" and ask for future content to be posted in the other community. That way, people looking for the keyword "bunny" will end up in the rabbit community or vice versa and you both get more traffic / subscribers.
- but don’t delete the community that ends up not being the main one. Rather post a sticky then like “we moved to XYZ” and ask for future content to be posted in the other community. That way, people looking for the keyword “bunny” will end up in the rabbit community or vice versa and you both get more traffic / subscribers.
  That is exactly what I had in mind for the potential merge! Thank you for the straw poll suggestion, by the way. I am not actually sure if Rabbits has a mod and therefore if a pinned post can be made, and I know Bunnies' mod is inactive, so there might be some trouble with that unfortunately. That is the idea behind making the new merged community (option 4)!
  
  Oof ... okay, I didn't check for the mods. That might indeed be a problem.
  However, you can also request to take over either one community (or both, seeing as they're both unmoderated) on !support@lemmy.world which would eliminate the need to create a third one, and also keep at least half of the total content in an "active" community that already has a bunch of subscribers. Creating a new one to start from scratch would mean that it will start out empty and without followers unless you repost/crosspost stuff from the other two communities. Adopting an already existing community is less work for the mod(s) and more convenient for the people that are already subscribed. ;)
  
  Ah thanks, I had no idea what Lemmy's solution was for unmoderated communities (I am talking to you from an Mbin instance, a fork of Kbin). I'll probably need to see if I can even mod from here first, or if I'd have to make a Lemmy account.
  
  A separate Lemmy account is probably the best at the current time - DMs don't yet work properly across different instances, so if someone from Lemmy.world would try to reach you via DM (like asking questions about the rules of the community, having beef with another user, making suggestions they don't feel comfortable with posting publicly etc.) you might not recieve the message. Or you recieve the message but you can't answer via DM yourself.
  It is on the To-Do-list of the supporters, but other issues with the site currently have higher priority so I have no idea when this will be fixed.
  On the plus side, creating accounts is unlimited and free, so there's nothing stopping you from making a Lemmy account in addition to your current one. And once the issue is resolved, you can still decide whether you want to retire or keep the alt account ;)