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.
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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.
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:
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.
That's confusing. Would be nice if it at least mentioned there was an image there.
The images actually load, but not instantly for me. I need to revisit a post/comment to see them.
Mlem is an early beta and is not feature complete. You should learn to be patient.
Enjoy this view while you wait.
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.
:^) looks fine to me
lol, your pic is sideways.
Haha, we're learning lessons here left and right.
I know … I am very patient or else I would neither use Lemmy nor Mlem.
I am on MLEM (Version: 0.0.7 (23)) I’m seeing them. Have you maybe missed an update?
No, but they appeared after I revisited this page. Thanks.
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.
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
Woo DS9
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.
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.
Subbed. I'm sorry.
Ppl can click on your profile and see where you mod and sub 🙂
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.
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 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 🙏🙏
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
Tomorrow, ![email protected] 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!
waves red and black flags
Hi from kbin. I run what we call a magazine or zine if you're from the early 90s. Mine is found at http://kbin.social/m/tvsuggestions. It's obviously for people to recommend or ask for suggestions about television or streaming episodic media. E.g. You can say "I'm looking for urban fantasy from before 9/11". And someone might say Buffy. Anyway. Join it and let's all love one the most pervasive and greatest mediums of art: television.
Based and modpilled.
Just as good as a Reddit mod is a pretty low bar :)
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!
I just wanted there to be a place for people to go to if they end up here! I have heard what it takes to mod and I absolutely don't have it!
Hi from Feddit! I‘ve been a passionate bass player for nearly 2 decades now and started a Bass related community over at [email protected], feel welcome to join me and have a chat about your favorite artist, gear, pedals, playing gigs and whatever else comes to mind!
Subbed!
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
I created [email protected] 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.
Check out [email protected]
Only rule is "cat."
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.
This. If the other mods want the subs open, let them take over the work. You deserve to be able to move on with your life.
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.
Where can i find your community? Id like to subscribe. Also its not so much stealing as its saving it from a sinking ship.
https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/post/128043
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.
Silly question perhaps? If I "Create a Community" do I automatically become it's mod. New at this, sorry.
Yeah
So much power!
Thank you. Much appreciated.
Yes.
Yeah, I had my issues with both r/japaneselanguage and r/learnjapanese on reddit, so I decided to create a more language-focused community for Japanese learners at [email protected], and I think the community is looking great so far. Hopefully the new lemmy communities will be a good opportunity to address what we think hasn't been working as well in the past.
For racing enthousiast I created c/wec. Feel free to join!
But but but I don't wanna be a thin-skinned ban-happy asshole :(
(J/k don't take seriously)
I’m manually mirroring select content from /r/DunderMifflin at /m/DunderMifflin on Kbin. Come join us and let’s get some comment threads going!
https://kbin.social/m/DunderMifflin
I'm done with being a mod. I'm on several of the reddit alternatives, but just don't care anymore about any of that.
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'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)
Some just refuse to give up their imaginary power. 🤷🏻♂️
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
Omg, I am so sick of seeing John Oliver and Disney properties on the front page. It feels like a breath of fresh air being here.
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 see this as an opportunity, frankly. I wouldn't have bothered starting a subreddit, but in this growing community, I can start a magazine, talk about what interests me in it, and hopefully find a significant audience for it... one that won't be ripped out from under me by a would be corporate shark with dollar signs in his eyes. That "significant audience" thing sure wasn't happening at Mastodon or Cohost.
I started a community for PhotoshopRequest. I hope the place will thrive. All are welcome aboard
I created [email protected] because it's one of the communities I knew I'd miss the most. Now the user base is growing
Yeah!
Agreed, I've seen communities where they just pin a post at the top of the community at mention that it's not the same team as the subreddit. I think that works well.
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.
i'm on mlem and seeing inline pics (?)