Reminder: Reddit is gone. Your community is official. If you're a mod, you're just as good as a reddit mod.
Reminder: Reddit is gone. Your community is official. If you're a mod, you're just as good as a reddit mod.
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.
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.
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.
I made the Android community because the power tripping Reddit mods banned me lol.
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.
Just as good as a Reddit mod is a pretty low bar :)
Tomorrow, !pilipinas@lemmy.ml will replace r/Philippines
God I hope so. That poll was a joke.
mabuhay ang lemmy! namatay na ang reddit
english: Long live Lemmy! Reddit is dead now!
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
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've been thinking about handing over control of my sublemmies to the reddit mods but I've changed my mind now that I've read this post. NO!
WE THE PEOPLE OF LEMMY AND THE FEDIVERSE REFUSE TO HAND OVER OUR SUBLEMMIES TO THE CORRUPT REDDIT MODS!
AND WE DECLARE INDEPENDENCE FROM THE REDDIT MODS! (refugees welcome)
Silly question perhaps? If I "Create a Community" do I automatically become it's mod. New at this, sorry.
Yeah
Thank you. Much appreciated.
So much power!
Yes.
Check out !catsstandingup@lemmy.world
Only rule is "cat."
I started a community for PhotoshopRequest. I hope the place will thrive. All are welcome aboard
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.
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.
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 🙏🙏
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!
Except in my community no one joined the lemming and then when I polled them on participation in the strike they voted to reopen https://lemmy.ml/post/1328516 https://www.reddit.com/r/Threads1984/comments/14cw78l/rthreads_is_both_reopened_and_committed_to_the/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Threads1984/comments/14b7txn/prefered_reddit_alternatives/
Trying to gradually Normalize Lemmy and convince them of the need to prepare For spezpocalypse and prepare Spez shelters that will ensure the survival of R/Threads1984 and which they can flee to when IPO begins to hit With Lemmy it is more then likely I will have to build the living community from scratch with the Lemming or Squabbles giving refuge to those seeking Spez shelters
In a sense you're right. But it doesn't necessarily mean it's the "same". If you have r/videos and c/videos, it's be ridiculous to think that the one on reddit is official and then one on Lemmy is a temporary copy waiting for immigrants. Sure, if you have no activity and people refuse to use it and it's a very specific niche thing, maybe you could argue that. But I'd say that most of the time, the communities here on Lemmy and on kbin are just as valid, just as true, and are their own entities independently of whether the users from the "originals" migrate en masse to them.
For example. I mod a music genre community. I just post music I like. If anyone joins that's great. I don't care.
My above examples show that Niche communities if they are created in Lemmy will likely be completely different in composition from Reddit it took months for R/Threads to gain 200+users for example would have been longer if the invite option wasn’t there more like 50-120. This is the reality when niche communities are created on Lemmy they are going to be totally different from the niche subreddits.(spent months treating it like a Threads archive before the subreddit gained popularity as a Threads discussion forum at 50 members and consistently growing even b4 I sent the invites)
I created lotrmemes@midwest.social because it's one of the communities I knew I'd miss the most. Now the user base is growing
Heck yeah! I just signed up to lemmy and there's alot for me to learn about this platform but it sure beats seeing a bunch of John Oliver pics and NSFW stuff on reddit lately
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
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.
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.
I think that's probably what's going on.
I thought of replicating some communities to start them, but I wouldn't be able to keep them going. So, knowing that, I decided not to do that after all.
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.
Based and modpilled.
I created !league@lemmy.ml for League of Legends players. Not many migrated due to the subreddit not participating in the blackout but we're still growing. Come join if you're an active player or just interested :)
I like this attitude. Nothing can make a ressit community the official unless if it's a branded product's reddit, and at that point, why the FUCK do you want your community in the control of the brand?
You can't removed about Riot on the LeagueofLegends sub like you can removed about Blizzard on Overwatch and whatnot. That is not a good location for the communty.
Anyone know how long federation generally takes? I have a community on lemmy.world that's 5-days old, and kbin.social & lemmy.ml don't see it.
Everyone opening a commujity is as “official” and legitimate as anyo ither community on any other platform. The userbase decide how succesfull it will be but besides that, unless you own the IP hour bulding a community around (like if your the game developer or something) I feel like “official “ is a weird way to describe a Community
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.
