Any thoughts about making this a linkshell instead?

I'm always up for doing stuff, but am not about to drop my little FC. I suspect there's other people who wouldn't really want to leave theirs as well, and if you actually /did/ transfer worlds, it's not like you'd be able to keep your old FC and any of its associated benefits. Just a thought. If you don't really want to go through the trouble of making a group like this, I know there's more than one such thing kicking around you could probably join if you wanted to.

If you didn't mind a larger and casual FC, I know a few around. They have some good players in them too though who (when I used to be in them, at least) were always very helpful and I'm sure wouldn't mind running content with you on an occasional basis.