How’d you end up migrating it?

You could consider using !photography@lemmy.glasgow.social, which seem more popular than !photography@lemmy.ml

That sounds like the right approach. I’ve found if a server is too overloaded, then it gives you the spinning circle when trying to sign up. I’d recommend trying to make an account on a smaller instance and see if that works.

I was able to find it from the instance I’m on

What’s the community you’re trying to get working?

Is it possible to do the opposite? Can I connect from a lemmy instance to follow a couple of people on mastodon?

Ah got it thanks. Then does the !community I’m posting to just act as a tag to stay organized and help others find the post? Or is it used in the federation of the post to other servers?

For example, from my account on beehaw.org I post to !lemmy_support@lemmy.ml. This writes to beehaw.org’s database and lets lemmy.ml know about the new post (lemmy.ml saves a copy). Do other instances who have a user subscribed to !lemmy_support@lemmy.ml reach out to lemmy.ml to get a list of posts under that community? Or do other instances reach out to beehaw.org to see if there are any posts to !lemmy_support@lemmy.ml?

I guess I’m mostly just confused on how !communities are used in the federation process.

That link didn’t work for me, so I’m trying this: !oldweb@lemmy.ml

It almost sounds like you’re describing RAID 5 of content across fediverse servers.