Following the other thread (550 upvotes and 366 comments at the moment: https://lemmy.world/post/16211417), one of the complaints that people had what that some communities only exist on lemmy.ml and don’t have alternatives on other instances.

Let’s discuss this and see if we can organize together.

I suggest to have one topic per comment so that is is easier to discuss.

    • Blaze@reddthat.comOPEnglish
      41·
      6 months ago

      Creating the community isn’t the issue, usually it’s finding moderators

      • rglullisAEnglish
        4·
        6 months ago

        Don’t worry about it for now. I will do it until someone steps up for it. Also, don’t forget that I am actually working on tooling to make this job easier, so having any type of growing community would be an excellent way to find out the real pain point for moderators and work on the solutions.

        • Blaze@reddthat.comOPEnglish
          3·
          6 months ago

          When I said moderator, I meant someone to bring people to the community as well 😅

          • rglullisAEnglish
            4·
            6 months ago

            For that, I really have no answer other than “help with fediverser, stick with one community, and post as much as possible in the promoted communities”.

              • rglullisAEnglish
                2·
                6 months ago

                Or do we expect people to hear about it by another mean?

                Yes. Fediverser will help newcomers. Posting content in the “new communities” will help those already here. Everyone browses by all anyway, so the best way to promote new communities is by putting content there.

      • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        6 months ago

        I mean, if your qualification for moderator includes “Not abusing powers to defend garbage extremist politics” then we currently have two communities that each have zero moderators.

          • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
            7·
            6 months ago

            No, just an implication towards the old lemmy.ml version of the community.

            What I mean is, moving from a bad situation to an equally bad but improvable situation is still a good move. It might be better to have a small, unmoderated community than one governed by “pretend” moderators.

            That said, if the above comment was pointing out a need to fulfill, as opposed to decrying the attempts at community replacement, then you could disregard my snide remark.