TIFU creating a community I don't know how to run...
So it's like the title says. I created this community to kinda fill the void from the reddit shutdown, and have no real idea on how to moderate a community like this, especially if it ends up huge like the one on Reddit.
Seeing as I have little moderation experience, if anyone is interested in moderating for this community just lmk and I'll see about setting you up.
TL;DR - Created a potentially huge amount of work for myself that I'm super unfamiliar with.
I'm just gonna keep posting the same obnoxious shitpost, so you'll always know you can just safely delete any posts from me. I want to make your life easy :)
I'm in the same boat. I created two regional (city, state) communities I was always involved in on reddit and would miss terribly and didn't exist on Lemmy. If they grow to more than 3 users I'll recruit help lol
I've been wanting to do the same, but I'm far too lazy to deal with trying to get help lol. Also, it looks like people in my city don't really think the Reddit changes are a big deal. So, there's that.
Yeah, I think there are probably a bunch of us in that boat right now. lol
You'll be fine, and if nothing else, there'll always be the option to add more people to help with modding. For what it's worth, everything seems more chill over here, so you've got that going for you.
LOL. I've got three already, but if you want to add me to the team, I'll keep an eye out for you, mostly because my cardinal rule in life is "don't be a dick".
So if you create a community you're the one that has to manage it? Because I was thinking of recreating my favorite communities from reddit on lemmy. But I don't want to do that if I would have to be the mod. I don't want to have to grow a neck beard s/... Jk, I appreciate you mods out there.
Hopefully the pottery community doesnt get out of control... because we just did that there too. I'm sure it'll work out for everyone lmao. I feel like it'll take a long time for people to really populate these new spaces while we learn things anyway. So excited for all the new things happening!
I just did the same thing for Best Updates (BORU replacement) only to find out that Lemmy post bodies can’t be longer than 10k characters (BORU posts are frequently over that). I’m not sure how best to proceed :/
We could open an issue on GitHub proposing a change. In the meantime, you could add to your sidebar suggesting users paste text larger than 10k into Pastebin or another equivalent website and create the post as a link, rather than filling the body.
Ideally, apps like Jerboa could have built in parsers to load text from Pastebin, images from Imgur, and so on, in elegant integrated ways which could mitigate limitations with Lemmy itself.
I did the same, then was looking around for any mod tools, but I don't really see any? Or any guides? Anywhere I should look for this? And can you give someone else mod rights ('cause I'd kind of like to, I just didn't want the place to look like a ghost town)
A lot of the bots and things that made reddit much easier to mod just haven't been developed yet for lemmy. Thosw bots are what makes losing the API bad in the first place. Someone needs to essentially develop an automod equivalent to moderate comments. If I have free time I plan to start working on something.
I would look at the rules of the sub on reddit, most of them exist for a reason. If you have questions, ask a mod, or someone else on lemmy/reddit. I mod on another reddit and lemmy account of mine.
I can't offer to mod because I have created my own communities here and will have my hands full managing. I can offer you my advice. My advice is to try to differentiate yourself from the sub on reddit, don't just copy it. Make some adjustments, bring some life into the place.
I've already made few basic changes to the original subreddit rules that I thought might makes things more enjoyable for most. If you have any suggestions lmk, and I'll see about maybe getting it implemented.
Just a thought... It might be a good thing for the primary mod of a community to not want to mod, and delegate it out. Keep their head clear and their hands clean.
I very nearly did that for my favorite sub, but I just don't have the time to moderate anything so I'll wait and see if anyone else does. Luckily it has a very active discord server so I've just been hanging out there. Everyone taking active effort and dedicating time to rebuilding these communities has my upmost respect and gratitude.
Too late. Already subbed.
If it's any consolation, I created a community at lemmy.world/c/powershell. And Just had to look up how to link to it. I have never been a mod, but figured someone had to do it. So, why not me?
Man, I was going to write this sweet script in powershell to grab ipconfig info and set ip, sub, Def gateway for use at work...but IT has powershell script execution blocked. Wrote it in cmd language instead. Wasn't as fun, but got the job done.
Same! Made four pretty niche ones, but then I also decided to make one for Destiny since no one had. If that gets members, I'll just have to figure it out as I go I suppose.