cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/323205
I keep seeing communities on lemmy writing in their bio “not official” or in some way deferring to the reddit community. I also see them writing that they’re willing to give up their community to the reddit mods if they ask. It’s like the whole place has imposter syndrome.
We’re the adults, guys.
We’re here. This is our community now. We broke up with that site, and we are making a new one. Run your community the way you think it should be run. Their communities are not any more official than ours. This is our place, not theirs.
We’re the adults. We’re the mods. We’re the community.
This is the dawn of a new era. The dark times preceding it will fade into legend and myth. Future generations will look back and see these communities as where it all began. Always remember that you mods, new and old alike, didn’t bring down the sword on the old age. You picked it up when the call to action rang out.
Death to the evil corporate social media
Please don’t give up your place for Reddit mods. A lot of them are abusive shitheads and by no means more qualified to do this than anyone else.
I made the Android community because the power tripping Reddit mods banned me lol.
Yeah, we don’t want to become reddit mods. They have been power tripping for too many years and live sad lives, and the stereotype was just proven true when spes threatened to strip them from their power. We can be so much better than fucking reddit mods.
Exactly, reddit mods are the epitome of the Samuel L. Jackson’s character from Django.
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Thank you for this. The imposter syndrome is real, especially starting what were some larger subreddits (gifs, coolguides, Shiba, and helping with Today I Learned). It’s been fun and I’m super happy to see the interactions and genuine conversation. We’re certainly our own community, and I’m so happy the fediverse is growing into something I can easily burn time on here and there.
Yeah!
hear hear.
i posted this yesterday, but i’ll post it here again, just as a reminder:
Is this actually happening? Reddit bots posting negative impact content to torpedo Lemmy?
I know the other day I saw John Oliver and Disney on the front page. I hope those users gets banned.
Of all memes, I was not expecting a DS9 one, bravo
Corporations are killing their own platforms and the nerds are building their own decentralized social media network. The internet is healing.
Should have been babylon 5
You can post pictures in comments?? I was so confused thinking i scrolled to another posts for a sec.
yes! Lemmy supports inline pics in comments!
They are not visible in Mlem.
Mlem is an early beta and is not feature complete. You should learn to be patient.
Enjoy this view while you wait.
lol, your pic is sideways.
Aaaaaaaaa why sideways?
I don’t know that lemmy or the app. The pic is right side up before I uploaded. That needs to be fixed.
Best feature I love here and also can control the text as well. Always wanted to add pics in comments without having to link to imgur now we can.
I have several subs that I mod that the other mods want to remain open. I get it. I really do. So I keep notifications on and mod as needed but spend my time here.
Stop giving Reddit your free labor, they don’t value it. Let your sub fall into chaos in protest.
i offered to let r/SilentHill mods mod on @SilentHill because 1. I swiped the name up and 2. I want to encourage more migration in the name of the protests
I wonder if they’re creating “temporary” communities to do their part in supporting the fediverse, but perhaps they are unable to volunteer to the degree that is required to mod a community longterm. I’d be curious to hear from someone who’s offering up their community to reddit mods who moderate the reddit equivalent.
Sure, except i don’t have time to be a proper mod (and that includes due diligence in vetting new mods) so it’s easiest to just let the old reddit mods have it. I haven’t started any communities but i definitely understand why people would want the reddit mods to retake control of a given community, and if i do start one i’d put that in the description as well
I’m kind of in the same spot. I created a community for Playstation Plus on Lemmy.World (no idea how to link it though). It’s mostly just a reminder to claim the free monthly games they give out, a place to discuss the free games, a place to speculate on upcoming free games, etc… By default, I’m a moderator over there now, but I have no interest in dedicating a ton of time to it. For now, post volume is basically zero, so there’s nothing to do from a mod POV, but I have no idea what I would do if the place grows and starts getting spammed with unrelated content.
Love this sentiment! I think we are in a bit of a teething period where people aren’t quite sure but hopefully everyone embraces and contributes!
Speaking as a (for now) mod on reddit, I don’t owe anyone the right to mod another community; I’m happy to offer advice from my previous experience, but if others want to be a mod they can go ahead.
The bit about letting the previous reddit mods take over is really weird to me. None of us own our respective community in any way. Also why I (and the rest of the mod team) aren’t forcing any kind of migration, it should be voluntary.
I think a part of the “giving up to reddit mods” is the hopes that it will incentivise the reddit mods to push their subreddit to the community instead of trying to keep people on reddit just to maintain power.
Personally I have made several communities that I enjoyed in reddit. While I dont mind modding it’s kind of a pain in the ass as well though.
I’d add in the sidebar an invitation to the reddit mods, and just people in general, to mod them too; I bet alot of them might want to just to maintain power like you said.
And thank you for your service 🙏🙏
This is my thought as well, it’s not so much as deferring as it is offering them an incentive to migrate. Having a “seal of approval” from the corresponding subreddit also helps in attracting more activity from those who are part of the migration and on the fence about contributing.
I’ve never started a community here, nor do I intend to, but if I were in that situation, I’d at least reach out to my counterpart subreddit.
Thank you, I started my subreddit on artificial intelligence and posted 100+ posts here so far and hearing that is nice. But the fact that I basically steal news and content from reddit doesn’t help much tbh lol.
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