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.
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 🙏🙏