TIFU creating a community I don't know how to run...
3y 22d ago by lemmy.world/u/A_Toasty_Strudel in tifu
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 :)
How considerate!
You got this! It's good to try new things, especially if they're scary.
That’s the spirit! Subbed, and I promise not to make any work for you.
Thanks for lookin' out, my man. 🙏
Of course! How's it been so far with the influx?
Honestly there's only been a couple of posts, so we're not buried in work by any means. But our sub count is absolutely soaring. We've almost hit the 1000 sub mark which is absolutely insane. Super exited for things to come.
That's really cool! It will be interesting to watch it grow.
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.
Yeah, this far the "small internet" feel of this place has been very relaxed.
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".
I dub thee, Crackhappy. The Mod Boi.
Cool, added to my mod folder.
Stupid question.. how did you create a folder?
Err.. TIFU not knowing how to create a folder.
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.
You can moderate yourself, but honestly most people recruit capable people from the community to help keep things running.
and err. not so capable ones too.
👀
You can do it!
We will behave, pinky promise 🤙
I have DM'd methamphetamine synthesis instructions to everyone in this thread
Much appreciated
A true hero
X doubt
Famous. Last. Words.
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 heard you potheads can go wild sometimes
Oh between the wet splattering clay and dust sticking to those unneccesary clothes we have some fun!
I never subbed to TIFU, but I'm gonna sub to this one!
Cheers! 🍻
Same.
Tomorrow in TIFU...
We are with you!
Thanks, brother. o7
This is bound to happen as others stated. We're trying to populate the site all over again. Thank you for creating the community. :)
I'm doing the same, but haven't had too many people join. These are good problems to have as the site grows.
+1 on monitors and semiconductors 😀 thanks for contributing to the community!
♥ 🤝
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 :/
Oh wow, I didn't know of this limitation.
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.
It looks like there’s already an issue open on GitHub (though I’m no expert, so correct me if this isn’t an enhancement request)
That’s a good idea about using a 3rd party site! I’ve never heard of pastebin, but I’ll look it up now :) Thanks!!
Talk to ruud the developer of lemmy.world would be my guess. Or the developer of whatever instance your using. And btw can you link the community?
It’s bestupdates@lemmy.world. I think that’s how you link it?
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)
Only way so far I've found to mod someone was on one of their comments.
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.
Feel free to reach out if you have questions.
It'll definitely be nice to see some of those tools come back. Godspeed in your development, good sir.
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 always thought there was something in the phrase “those who want to be president shouldn’t be”
Brave pioneer! I applaud you!!
Lmao same, most of mine aren't super huge but there's a lot of em.
I really hope c/dataisbeautiful takes off for you. I'd love to have that content on this platform.
Was tempted to try and make /AITA too but I dunno if I can handle one that big, specially on my own.
I've been considering this one for a day or two and said "Fuck it. If it blows up it is what is is." lol
Thankfully I've knighted Sir u/crackhappy to help with the moderation.
Same for me on /EarthPorn, a big undertaking but I did get some help on moderating that at least.
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.
Hahahaha. That's exactly why I only started one that I really really really wanted to exist but knew would stay pretty small.
It's gonna be a learning experience, but I expect it to be a fun one.
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.
Mod of the Destiny community is literally oryx, can't get better than that
Just need Savathûn and Xivu to show up as mods, too!
This is beautiful.
You're beautiful. ;)
<3
Hey im in the same boat! Already up to 35 people. So far so good though.
Make it 36. \[T]/
If only i could be as grossly incandescent as you \[T]/
I almost did the same, I don't have such big balls like you, though
Totally up for this if you still need more! Straight into the deep end!
Welcome to Modville!
🎉 now to work out how on earth to do this!
Tbh, just use your best judgement and try not to let things burn down. We'll be aight.
I'm on web for the first time since moving and it's a bit easier here - all the little icons are a bit intimidating on mobile, didn't want to press anything and break stuff. Turns out the rainbow star is 'show context'... obviously!
Ngl, I've been wondering what in the world that was too. Big preesh!
I'd consider that a Sucess not a TIFU!!
hahaha same boat, except I have 3 (big names but idk how busy it'll get yet
good luck to the both of us!
I wish your inbox the best of luck, my man. Lol
thank you 😭
(moderating c/woooosh will definitely be interesting 🤦♂️)
I also don't have any experience with moderating :D but i'll give moderating a shot if you want me on the mod team :)
Shabam! Knighted!
Same
The round table grows. Knighted!
Hey, me too!
Welcome brother.