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.

  • BrooklynMan@lemmy.ml
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    hear hear.

    i posted this yesterday, but i’ll post it here again, just as a reminder:

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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.

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      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.

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        1 year ago

        Exactly, reddit mods are the epitome of the Samuel L. Jackson’s character from Django.

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    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 :)

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    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.

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    Hi from Feddit! I‘ve been a passionate bass player for nearly 2 decades now and started a Bass related community over at !bassment@feddit.de, feel welcome to join me and have a chat about your favorite artist, gear, pedals, playing gigs and whatever else comes to mind!

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    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.

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    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 !japaneselanguage@sopuli.xyz, 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.

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    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

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    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.

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    Silly question perhaps? If I “Create a Community” do I automatically become it’s mod. New at this, sorry.

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    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

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    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.

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      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.