That was me. I don't really feel like modding. I was offered a few mod spots on reddit over the past 11 years, took up one or two, didn't really enjoy it.
But if everyone feels that way, then lemmy can never reach critical mass. SO i bit the bullet, created a community and hopefully someone will be interested in modding if it ever grows big.
If anyone's interested, I created maliciouscompliance (one of my favorite subs to lurk in). Mostly reposts for now, but OC should trickle in slowly.
As a former reddit mod who's made some communities here, so far they are 0% of the work of the reddit ones (not that I was working hard on the reddit communities, I set up automod and let it run). But so far I haven't had to do any mod work here because there's basically no spam and no bots. I'm sure that will change, but I can also just recruit more mods as the communities grow.
how recently were you a mod on reddit? I've been trying to raise discussions on various communities that I follow about a possible migration and I'm receiving a lot of indifference from the userbase. However, I feel like the mod userbase feels differently given the widespread blackout (many of these communities joined the blackout but it seems like a lot of their users are unaware or unconcerned with the changes.)
my question is do you think the mods are more sympathetic to migrating platforms?
I think it's a mix, some places did a poll and it was like 30% of prople who use 3rd party apps, so it's a minority that'll be impacted, and disproportionatly mods because native modding tools suck.
The "aww" site can be found/subbed by searching on your account's server for: [email protected]
**Example: **I'm on lemmy.world so if I go to: https://lemmy.world/search and enter the "!" string above it finds me a link that once clicked presents me with a "Subscribe" button.
They wouldn't let me onto Beehaw with the answer I gave to their question, so I joined the first instance I could find that looked interesting. Now I kind of feel awkward making any new communities that aren't Star Trek related lol.
@Mojo@KahunaDaKine on the same page, was initially bummed out my account didn't get approved, guess my answer was poo lol. But then I remembered I can use my Mastodon account to comment. I just can't create post or downvote them.
Favoriting counts as a upvote though.
But then I remembered I can use my Mastodon account to comment. I just can’t create post or downvote them.
Fun fact! You can make posts from Mastodon to Lemmy. If you search the community on Mastodon, e.g. [email protected], you can @ the account that should show up with whatever you want to post, and it will show up here!
Following up on this. There is a Plex community that's already pretty well established. So neither of us need make one. (There's a few more as well but it's totally dead)
I'm on my phone so I don't want to this second, but will comment as a reminder to myself, I'll start a Plex community if one doesn't exist by the time I get there. The sub on Reddit wasn't very active but was good for small bits of things people figured out or bitching about the newest feature that isn't one everyone wanted lol.
Bahaha yes!
Everytime I feel like things are just not there quick enough , I look at my profile and then i calm down and remember shit just don't happen and i chill out.
I started (like 2 hours ago) a Poetry community in my instance. I modded a few microscopic subreddits that never got any traffic, so I'm used to imposter syndrome as a moderator 😥
Yes. In my two or three days, I've considered making multiple, but then I remember I'd be defacto mod, and I calm down. Maybe later, but probably wait for the actual mods of those subs to make the community here.
I made a community for Dads, I was subbed to a few on the R, but didn't see much on Lemmy. If you are a dad and want to contribute to this community, please check it out!
I've been trying to find an alternative to r/AskPsychology anywhere online because I've been trying to find statistics on how likely people with NPD and ASPD are to be abusive and be abused compared to the general population and have had no luck. Asking on places like Quora just results in dipshits and grifters screeching about how people with personality disorders are actual demons from literal hell (and in the latter case, shilling their blog, books, and webinars). ~Cherri
Hi, I'm not /r/AskPsychology but I am a psychologist who likes being asked things!
From a quick literature review, antisocial personality disorder does result in three times higher odds of committing violent offenses in general, and 2.5 times higher odds of being a repeat offender (Yu et al., 2012). Generally, personality disorders do increase the risk of someone committing partner abuse, especially Cluster B symptoms (Ehrensaft et al., 2006) Among men who abuse their wives, personality disorders are present in 50%-90% — especially anti-social, sadistic, and borderline (Hart et al., 2011) — despite personality disorders being only present in 15% of the population (Grant et al., 2004). Throughout, these effects are more pronounced in men, but also present to a rather large degree in women.
Less is known regarding whether people with personality disorders are more often victimised in their relationships. Borderline perdonality disorder in women seems to increase the risk of being abused by a partner by a factor of three though (Gilchrist et al., 2012). We also know that the overwhelming majority of people with personality disorders was abused during childhood (Johnson et al., 2001, etc.) and that victims of childhood abuse are much more likely to become victims of partner violence as adults (Gilchrist et al., 2012).
In summary — there is strong evidence that people with personality disorders are far more likely to be abusers than the average person. There is also evidence that they are also more likely to be victims by a similar factor compared to the average person, but that evidence is more scarce. Also, anti-social, borderline, and sadistic personality disorders are more strongly associated with abusers, and borderline with victims. There's a lot of research still to be done.
Ehrensaft, M. K., Cohen, P., & Johnson, J. G. (2006). Development of personality disorder symptoms and the risk for partner violence. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 115(3), 474-483.
Gilchrist, G., Blánquez, A., & Torrens, M. (2012). Exploring the relationship between intimate partner violence, childhood abuse, and psychiatric disorders among female drug users in Barcelona. Advances in Dual Diagnosis, 5(2), 46-58.
Grant, B., Hasin, D., Stinson, F., Dawson, D., Chou, S. P., Ruan, W. J., & Pickering, R. (2004). Prevalence, correlates, and disability of personality disorders in the United States: Results from the National Epidemiologic Survey on alcohol and related conditions. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 65(7), 948-958.
Hart, S. D., Sutton, D. G., & Newlove, T. (2011). The prevalence of personality disorders among wife assaulters. Journal of Personality Disorders, 7(4), 329-341.
Johnson, J. G., Cohen, P., Smailes, E. M., Skodol, A. E., Brown, J., & Oldham, J. M. (2001). Childhood verbal abuse and risk for personality disorders during adolescence and early adulthood. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 42(1), 16-23.
Yu, R., Geddes, J. R., & Fazel, S. (2012). Personality disorders, violence, and antisocial behavior: A systematic review and meta-regression analysis. Journal of Personality Disorders, 26(5), 775-792.
I apologize for the late response, I do appreciate the detail in this response. There are a couple things I'm not sure about though, mainly just "what do I say to people who claim that people with cluster B personality disorders are mostly or inherently evil or abusive, especially the ones who claim narcissistic/borderline/psychopathic abuse is a distinct form of abuse from other forms of abuse and/or that basically every evil politician or CEO or whoever secretly has a personality disorder and that's why they're evil?" and what the best ways to accommodate someone with a cluster B personality disorder are if I ever get to know someone with one. Not sure if I phrased all of that particularly clearly, so I apologize if it's confusing. ~Nai
I'm in the same boat. I loved subbing to random niche communities just to learn about them, but I know nothing about those topics myself so it doesn't make sense for me to start a new one.
I made a couple communities that I use to love on Reddit. I def don’t want the control but I’m hoping the fact that the communities exist may attract more people and someone may come along who is better suited to run the show
Well I wish you the best of luck. The way I see it, someone’s gotta take the first step, might as well be you if it’s not too much work. The communities I made are niche and small so there not much to be “in charge” of lol. I can figure out the rest later. It’s good to hear you have the right kind of people hanging in the community already
I have neither the time, nor confidence to mod; but I have wondered if we should make something like a "lemmy wishlist" for communities we'd like to see ported. Seems like a good way for the lemmy community to vote on and discuss communities they'd like to see, and connect to would-be mods
I reluctantly created a bunch because I want to have those conversations. I figure with time we can always call for volunteers and appointment help as needed. I’m hopeful that moderating a board on Lemmy will require somewhat less effort than Reddit due to the friendlier atmosphere and lower volume.
My friend we have Photo Critique! Where we post our own work and critique it ourselves or ask for any guidance from the community and others will put forth a critique of your work and/or offer advice as well! I’m striving for a continuation of the Reddit community where I found a lot of great help on my own photography. We’d love to see your photos!
I’m resisting the urge to recreate r/Peloton (a sub about pro bike racing) before someone uses the name for a community based on those dumb exercise bikes.
You could always make like Peloton Racing. Imo since all the sub names need the @instance there's not a whole lot of benefit to having the shorter name like Reddit where people just typing r/whatever into the url browser might take them to a relevant sub. Fed communities are going to have long specific names either way lol
I have the opposite problem. I have a lot of subs to make and I can't figure out which to start with. Or if this is even the server I'm gonna keep, because there's a certain server I instantly discovered I want absolutely nothing to do with.
Probably lemmygrad. In addition to many people generally not being fans of communists, they have users who think praxis=spamming other communities with garbage.
Not because I want to mod (never done it, and I'm autistic so it could end up becoming a nightmare)
I just want to see some of my favourite communities on here
Any ex reddit mods of these subs want to re-adopt them, they're welcome to take them off my hands
I think the trick will be to make more generic subs. There probably aren't enough users to have a dedicated "Zelda Tears of the Kingdom" sub, but "Nintendo" can actually gain traction. Anyone wanting to create a community should see if there's already one that might satisfy the needs.
Yeah, unfortunately that does seem to be the problem.
I'm not sure how to fix it without a meta-flange paradox stabilizer on the combobulator's sync couplers. But I've no idea where to begin with that.
Feel the same about Aston Villa’s sub. Luckily we have a discord that was shared in the sub a few weeks ago and a decent amount of people are there but discord is harder to keep tabs on to me
Definitely, although it's exciting to see new communities popping up.
I'm in a short-term crunch right now and don't have time to start something, but in a week or so I will probably create at least one if no one beats me to it.
feels, did these kinds of communities before centralization, im pretty physed to run a topical instance. find a small server and make a spot you can put your links for now, eventually there will be community aggregators
There's already browse.feddit.de if that's what you mean by community aggregator. On my instance one of the things I'm experimenting with is a simple bot that auto-subscribes to popular communities on different servers. It seems like the easiest way to populate a small community instance that intends to browse and not just communicate amongst themselves, almost like the "default subreddits" back on Reddit.
I'm not really one who has the inclination to moderate, but I might consider setting up the Lemmy equivalent of r/the_wire if one doesn't come up in the next few weeks.
I keep mulling around the idea of a TV sub to discuss the long list of cozy murder shows I love. Most are on Acorn TV or Britbox for US audiences. I don’t mind helping start discussions and contributing, but don’t want to do it alone. Here are my list of favorites (in no order): Midsomer Murders, Death in Paradise, Brokenwood Murders, Shakespeare and Hathaway, McCormick and Dodds. There are more!
I think having one sub for this type of show could end up being a good start for more subs if one show starts to dominate, but could stay as a hub for those of us who like them all and want to discuss.
I wouldn’t mind starting, but am sporadic in my online time so would want help. Anyone else interested? Any ideas for making it a fun place to hang out and discuss the odd passion for laughing at (totally fictional) murders?
I want a video game multiplayer community for the Oceania region. Similar to 4chan's /vm/ board where people post a thread for a specific game and in the comments people organise times to play together.
The reason I dont make it is because I will be the first person and I am not an interesting leader person. I am better when someone else is the organizer and I follow.
I did make a Guinea pig community https://lemmy.nz/c/[email protected] I dont want to fill it with pictures of my two guinea pigs and I am also not sure if I can repost stuff from /r/guineapigs
I want a sub thats never really existed in any substantial form. There really dont seem to be any solid communities for cartoons that has any decent foot traffic. I still have /co/ bookmarked cuz its the only place on the internet i've seen that will discuss just about any kinda cartoons that are not anime.. Granted that site is full of a bunch of awful people so I dont really engage, but its nice to see an active place where people care about non-anime animated content and I always wanted a sub for it. I actually tried to make one my self but there obviously wasnt enough intrest in it, not really sure how one would grow a sub and didnt really want to put in the work in my self anyway
Personal preference: Memes are a big turn-off for me. But if people have a serious discussion about the books (themes, word usage, overlooked patterns, etc.) I'm all in. Not that you asked.
I was searching for a sub about Japanese Metal, couldn't find one and made it myself. Maybe, some day, the community will grow enough to hand it over to someone with mod experience, but right now, I don't have anything to moderate anyway, which is cool. Metalheads are civilized anyway ;)
Yeah, I’m kind of in the same boat. I’m so new to lemmy, I’m just trying to figure that out. Im definitely going to miss a few of the women specific subs I was on, and the running ones.
The subs that I mostly miss are OSCP, navyblazer, and the_pack. I recall seeing that all of these were archived on some site that I don't recall at the moment. I'm sure someone will find a way to import all of that data here sooner or later.
I started a couple of communities as placeholders but don't really have time to mod. There hasn't been any activity yet but if / once people start posting we'll figure it out.
For now, I decided to make it myself. If anything to start gathering the useful resources I learned back on reddit. If anyone later on wants to take over ill happily give them the entire thing cause I dont wanna mod.
Literally in the same boat. I wanted the place to exist over here but I've never been a mod and don't really have interest but for now I'm happy with me and my dead community. If it's ever not dead I'll have to figure out what to do.
The Orville, and its less I refuse to be a mod for it, and more that I do not think that putting it on my instance would be the best place for it . That being said I keep thinking about doing that.
I've been trying to find an alternative to r/AskPsychology anywhere online because I've been trying to find statistics on how likely people with NPD and ASPD are to be abusive and be abused compared to the general population and have had no luck. Asking on places like Quora just results in dipshits and grifters screeching about how people with personality disorders are actual demons from literal hell (and in the latter case, shilling their blog, books, and webinars). ~Cherri
I'm a huge sci-fi fan and love the idea of a sci-fi server with communities for books, tv shows, etc to rehouse places like r/scifi, r/TheExpanse and r/SiloSeries. But as dev as I am I don't fancy running a server and being a super mod.
I made one, https://lemmy.world/c/crtgaming, because I missed it on reddit and was worried that enough people had the same reservation. I’m hoping that by making it, other people will post there if they hadn’t otherwise been willing to start their own sub.
I’m not interested in moderating, but I’m also hoping that smaller communities like this are simple to mod.
Yeah there's quite a few niche communities I'd like to have here that aren't around yet, but even if I created them, I don't think we're at a userbase large enough to populate them. They were kinda slow even on Reddit.
Definitely don't beat yourself up over it, every social media site evolves its own psychologically-optimum methods to hold our attention and keep us coming back.
This happens to be a golden opportunity for us to consider what exactly we want to get out of these services.
I agree. You can always just go for it though, and atleast grab a place holder. Then advertise and hand of the topic to a better qualified team. That's what I did for a lot official gaming discords I set up, but didn't really want to continue moderating.
Sorta, Got a bunch of the more niche communities I was in made, with only two exceptions. I believe in being the change I want made, but I"m hardly experienced as a moderator so it's a new adjustment. They're also existing communities so some mods usually have issues with that, though I'm always open to give mod status when relevant.
I still don't get how this works. Are there sub-reddit equivalents? Is there an app I can use to subscribe to feeds or topics across multiple Lemmy servers?
Each Lemmy instance (server) has its own communities, which are like subreddits. But instances can read and post in other instances communities seamlessly. For example, there's a [email protected] and a [email protected]. They're both separate communities, but you can participate in both regardless of which instance you're a part of.
/r/dailyprogrammer
New challenges on there pretty much came to a halt. It would be great if it could be archived at least. I would browse through the challenges and pick one out.
I was considering making one for r/airraidsirens, seeing as that's my main hobby with a decent community. But moderating it sounds like it could become a real pain, so I have second thoughts, lol