@jerry Atm i am confused about my best course of action [not your instructions; they're clear... just which option might be the least worst for me].
Pros Here:
having done many fedi-hops over my 13 months, this instance is running the sweetest of all for me so far, wrt my custom FOSS emojis [ta, again!], #GlitchSoc, fab 11K toot-chars, correctly functioning news-bots i follow, good Goldilocks size of not too big for good admin & modding, not too small for poor federating, but just right... & ofc your excellent stewardship!
Cons There:
only the standard Masto icon again [joke, albeit not entirely...]
fear that if only small numbers of members from here migrate there, & few noobs join, then it becomes ipso facto a "small instance" with great risk of poor federating [having tried a few small instances during my hopping, they all suffered poor federating, such that lots of peeps that i routinely saw when on larger instances, were invisible [MIA] on those smallies; i never wish to repeat this problem].