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.