I mod the !iiiiiiitttttttttttt@lemmy.world community, I’ve managed to grow the number of subscribers from 360 to 800.

I’m thinking of moving it to programming.dev. Is this a good idea? I made a post asking this and I’m looking for feedback there.

  • rglullisAEnglish
    91·
    21 hours ago

    you just take out the trash

    I don’t know what it is, maybe it’s some form of ikea effect, where people think that the act of filling a form, adding an icon and a description makes them immediately attached to something that (initially) amounts to a record field in a database.

    I’ve lost count of how many people I asked “Hey, I saw you are the mod of <mostly inactive community on large instance>, I am running <slightly active/mostly inactive community on topic-specific instance>. How about we join forces?” And almost invariably they act like I am asking them to give me their firstborn.

    • irelephant [he/him]🍭@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      31·
      12 hours ago

      Some of those mods aren’t active for spans of several months, but are opposed to giving up any control on their communitiies.

    • drspod@lemmy.mlEnglish
      31·
      16 hours ago

      And almost invariably they act like I am asking them to give me their firstborn.

      You can’t infer that they are being possessive, when an equally possible explanation for that reaction is that they are offended on behalf of their community members, who would not want a unilateral consolidation of their community into another community that they feel no connection to.

      Just because you mod a community doesn’t mean you get to make the decision about where people gather for that community. When instances have different moderation rules and different vibes, you must have a consenting userbase in order to make decisions like that.

      • rglullisAEnglish
        31·
        15 hours ago

        that they are offended on behalf of their community members

        I’m talking about cases where there aren’t any community members to speak of.