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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Just as good as a Reddit mod is a pretty low bar :)
I started a community for PhotoshopRequest. I hope the place will thrive. All are welcome aboard
Tomorrow, !pilipinas@lemmy.ml will replace r/Philippines
mabuhay ang lemmy! namatay na ang reddit
english: Long live Lemmy! Reddit is dead now!
waves red and black flags
Check out !catsstandingup@lemmy.world
Only rule is “cat.”
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.
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
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.
Alfred E Oliver
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’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)
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 🙏🙏
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.
