Reminder: Reddit is gone. Your community *is* official. If you're a mod, you're just as good as a reddit mod. : reddit

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Reminder: Reddit is gone. Your community is official. If you're a mod, you're just as good as a reddit mod. (self.reddit)

submitted 1 year ago by AlmightySnoo to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/323205

I keep seeing communities on lemmy writing in their bio "not official" or in some way deferring to the reddit community. I also see them writing that they're willing to give up their community to the reddit mods if they ask. It's like the whole place has imposter syndrome.

We're the adults, guys.

We're here. This is our community now. We broke up with that site, and we are making a new one. Run your community the way you think it should be run. Their communities are not any more official than ours. This is our place, not theirs.

We're the adults. We're the mods. We're the community.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My above examples show that Niche communities if they are created in Lemmy will likely be completely different in composition from Reddit it took months for R/Threads to gain 200+users for example would have been longer if the invite option wasn’t there more like 50-120. This is the reality when niche communities are created on Lemmy they are going to be totally different from the niche subreddits.(spent months treating it like a Threads archive before the subreddit gained popularity as a Threads discussion forum at 50 members and consistently growing even b4 I sent the invites)