There's !foxes@lemmy.world and !foxnews@lemmy.sdf.org. The lemmy.world version has a more recently active mod, @mjokfox@pawb.social / @mjokfox@lemmy.world, while the lemmy.sdf.org one @Greyscale@lemmy.sdf.org hasn't been seen in 2 years. There appears to be a lot more recent activity on !foxes@lemmy.world especially thanks to @ickplant@lemmy.world and overall a bit more activity there. However, lemmy.world is the biggest instance and consolidating towards smaller but still active instances tends to be a better move for keeping the Fediverse decentralized and diverse instead of centralized all on one huge instance.

Either way, it would probably help to consolidate so we can have one active fox community instead of people trying to independently contribute to two communities that seem to have no difference in content. Was wondering what people think about which community to consolidate to, if at all, or if there is some difference I haven't yet detected and they should just coexist.

Also, I followed this guide in the sidebar and am wondering why it says to page relevant users in a top-level comment. Do user mentions just not work in a post so it has to be a comment?

EDIT: You know what, I can test that myself since I have alts. @Elevator7009@lemmy.zip, @Elevator7009sAlt@ani.social, hi! An hour after the self-ping, both in post and in comment, neither account received a notification

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[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

As you mentioned in the OP, Greyscale hasn't been active for a couple years. Paging admin @SDF@lemmy.sdf.org.

While sdf.org are older than Lemmy and will likely be around for a long time, they are pretty hands-off regarding their Lemmy instance, and it could take a while to transfer mod duties of !foxnews@lemmy.sdf.org.