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.
As myself, I formed xmen and wheeloftime communities here but would absolutely hand them over to their respective reddit mod teams because I think they did a fantastic job and know what they’re doing and I don’t. I just want places to exist for people to talk about the shit and I’m not shy about pressing buttons.
I doubt I’m alone. It’s not imposter syndrome, just people who aren’t seeking a full time Internet janitor position or any kind of power and are willing to temporarily take on responsibility to grow kbin but don’t view it as a long term commitment.
Some “official” subreddits for specific media have the actual backing and blessing of the artists and companies they’re about. Making a distinction in that case is reasonable. I’m considering making a magazine for a niche game I’m into, but the “official” subreddit is recognized by the dev and publisher, so I would be careful to separate myself as “unofficial” - while also approaching the dev to see if there’s interest in changing that.
Making a distinction for general-interest subs like “music” (no specific artist(s)) is less useful.
I rather disagree. I think we should be kinder. There are mods on Reddit who have poured years into building their community on Reddit, who took their communities dark and have only now decided it is time to move.
I’m not saying that they have some kind of “right” to have a magazine or community, or should be entitled or be able demand the name.
But there has been a bit of a land grab in some cases - certainly on kbin - there are entirely empty magazines with zero activity named identically to popular subreddits.
I mod a magazine on kbin that is a direct replacement for a niche subreddit. I started it to hold some of the content I’m interested in. But the mods of that sub did a grand job - and they weren’t power mods or anything. I have an explicitly message in the sidebar that if they are interested in setting up shop at kbin.social they should message me.
There are going to be mods that are literally mourning the loss of what they had. There are enough arseholes in the world - let’s not make things a bit worse.
