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Having trouble creating a Lemmy community-- This is my third server, and my co-mod is also having trouble (SOLVED!!) (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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SOLVED: Our subreddit had a longass name, and Lemmy has a 20 character limit

Hi! Reddit mod from a large-ish but well-known subreddit looking to move things to the Lemmy-verse but for some reason my and my co-mod have had absolutely zero luck for the last 4 days creating a community on any Lemmy server. Whenever we try to create one, we just get the little spinny button of death and it's never created.

Yes, even here on Blahaj.

Are we cursed?

We managed to create a magazine on Kbin (still glitchy but it's the only one that worked) but we're worried that if we don't snag that exact name on Lemmy, someone else will pounce on the name and grab it for clout, which would be very distressing because we've worked our asses off trying to grow that community.

What are we doing wrong? Are our usernames not cute enough? Did someone snag the name and is hiding it from us?

Help, we are not good with computers.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m not totally sure myself, I’ve never tried it. There isn’t an option to do so in the UI that I can see, but an admin could theoretically alter the database directly to change ownership. I’m not sure how that would reflect on federated instances, but on the local community it would certainly work.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah, my co-mod is very particular about getting it done the right way. Can't really blame her, between reddit and other mod drama, it's been quite the whiplash of emotions. We're in a very vulnerable spot because people have come gunning for us before, "Well then I'll make my own subreddit with hookers and blow" type of deal. We've always had the numbers and excellent reputation to keep us from getting swallowed by the smaller fish that care less about academic stuff and just wanted to overtake us by just "getting popular" I guess and not being as carefully curated as we are. But we don't have numbers here, we don't have reputation here, to ensure that someone won't just jump on the idea and run with it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah that makes sense. My philosophy about these things is always that the people matter more than the idea — even if someone takes your idea and runs with it, it will be worse because they aren’t you, they’re just copying you. But I get how it’s a bad feeling.

If you’re concerned about ownership stuff in particular the best option for you might be federating your own instance. I put the scripts I used to host Lemmy on fly.io in GitHub if you want to use fly as a provider. Here’s a link: https://github.com/Veraticus/fly-lemmy

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

We're not sure if we're in a place where we can really do that. On a technical or a financial level.

Thank you for giving us more info, though.