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.mlEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    hear hear.

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

  • DarkThoughts@kbin.social
    6·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • vis4valentine@lemmy.ml
      3·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • mihor@lemmy.ml
        12·
        1 year ago

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

  • peterbata@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

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

  • Lemuria@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    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)

  • d00phy@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • s_v@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    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

  • ashkul@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I started a community for PhotoshopRequest. I hope the place will thrive. All are welcome aboard

  • Percy@lemmy.oneEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    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

  • HidingCat@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • ZenkorSoraz@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    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

    • Truck-kun@lemm.eeEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • ZenkorSoraz@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        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)