Wow 110 subscribers! Coming from checks notes zero 2 weeks ago this is pretty startling for me. Welcome all, thanks for being here!
Just a few notes for folks here. My name is scrubbles, I'm the admin and I run the instance we're all sitting on. I'm so happy to run this for everyone, after the fallout with Reddit I've decided that I'm not going back. My time here on Lemmy has been better for my mental health, I feel like content is fun again. That's my way of saying I'm in it for the long haul, we're here to stay!
Now onto new business
Reporting
Lemmy and the fediverse is seeing huge migrations in people. New folks are coming in every day, with that there will be some people that aren't as kind as we've seen so far. Please feel free to hit the report button if something doesn't feel right. Even if they aren't breaking an explicit rule, let the mods know. We don't have a full set of rules yet after all, maybe we need a new one.
Calling all mods
Now that we've broken 100 subscribers, I'd like to officially extend an invite for volunteer mods. Previously it was just me in ~~an attempt to retain absolute power~~ kidding folks I didn't want to run this place with a thousand rules and guidelines right off the bat. However now that we're crossing 100 I don't think I should be the only person running the show here. If anyone would like to step up they are honestly very welcome to do so, just DM me and we'll get you started. Running the instance will be a job for me alone, I'll need additional people to help run individual communities. They'd be given a pretty wide latitude to run the communities how they want, (obviously within reason). They'd could even start running some fun things like...
Ask not what the sub can do for you
Or do, really. What things do you wish we were doing? Should we do daily threads? Should we do weekly "what am I listening to" threads? I've been throwing up random articles I find along the way, but I'm sure that's getting boring. Pitch ideas, what have you liked in other places?
Community creation is open
You can create communities here! I haven't because 1) I'm not sure what people want to see and 2) I'm going to need some help modding more communities. So, if you feel like you want to mod a community and create it, just ask. I'm happy to create any and ~~all~~ most communities (they're are already some NSFW communities here on Lemmy around popstars...) you will be given full domain of those communities.
Is it time we set up a Carly Rae Jepsen one? Someone ping me and I'll get it going for you! (....aaaand it's done already, what other ones do we need?)
In addition I'm open to mods for the TaylorSwift community and we have a new CircleJerk community that someone was going to run, but they haven't responded to me in a couple days now...
Don't be a lurker!
It's very easy to be a lurker here, god knows I was for years, but as we're getting started don't be afraid to post. Whatever news, excitement, theories, pictures, whatever feel free to post! I promise you people have been much nicer here than other places.
Concerns or criticisms?
I'm new at this, so please I want to make a good community for you all. If you have anything you don't like, you can call it out in comments or in a private message. All I ask is you follow some great advice one of my managers gave me, "Don't bring me problems, bring me solutions." If there are problems, give me some ways I could fix the problem and I'll absolutely do my best.
Again, welcome, and happy to have you!