A huge opportunity was missed by people running major communities to functionally degrade Reddit in at least the medium-term as a website.
There weren’t really other places to go (most of the Lemmy instances got created around the API announcement), and changes to subreddits would have been reverted
They could revert them, but they couldn’t replace how they run the communities. That’s the thing. Reddit would’ve had to scramble to find hundreds, thousands of mods potentially who would be good fits for communities.
Let’s be honest, some mods were too happy with the power they had to completely leave the platform.
I used to mod my local sub, the main sub there still handles alone most of the reports. All the other mods left, but he’s still handling dozens of reports per week. I asked him once if he ever considered Lemmy, “Reddit is where the people are”. Well yeah, thanks to you working for them for free
And while we’re discussing, it’s one of the main reasons while I’m always promoting non-Lemmy.world communities.
I wouldn’t have that much of an issue if LW was just centralized, but having this kind of aggressive, power tripping mods so high in the organization just doesn’t inspires trust.
I’m happy to discuss about LW admins about technicalities, but moderation wise this is still an issue.
And I know I’m not the only one, power tripping of LW is regularly brought up on !fedigrow@lemmy.zip when we decide where to consolidate communities.
If you want LW to be considered a trustworthy instance, please address that problem. Having that mod step down from 2 of the 3 communities above ( the 3 of them being in the top 6 of the most active communities on the platform https://lemmyverse.net/communities?order=active ) would be a sign of good faith.
Without that, expect people to bring threads like the one above on a regular basis to try to redirect people to non LW communities
Agree. I came as a curious lurker willing to explore the wild internet and I settled in this new place for its opportunities rather than for its qualities. Would I have been posting regularly OC on Reddit, I would never have considered this place as an opportunity to replace it. Maybe I would have post on both to see where it went but it would have not be a very solid backup plan.
Yeah, I remember the time, I had like 2-3 alternatives in my list that I switched between to see what people are posting and how it filled the feed. Personally I decided on staying with Lemmy only months after the event.
There weren’t really other places to go (most of the Lemmy instances got created around the API announcement), and changes to subreddits would have been reverted
They could revert them, but they couldn’t replace how they run the communities. That’s the thing. Reddit would’ve had to scramble to find hundreds, thousands of mods potentially who would be good fits for communities.
Let’s be honest, some mods were too happy with the power they had to completely leave the platform.
I used to mod my local sub, the main sub there still handles alone most of the reports. All the other mods left, but he’s still handling dozens of reports per week. I asked him once if he ever considered Lemmy, “Reddit is where the people are”. Well yeah, thanks to you working for them for free
Yep, unfortunately. Still an opportunity missed though.
They can always mod on .world for the same.
Look at the mods of the major communities and see how much overlap there is.
https://lemmy.world/post/35918814?scrollToComments=true ( https://archive.is/zqCgs )
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That’s it? One mod has too many communities?
(To be clear, I don’t care if someone has 80 tiny warhammer communities. Only the major ones.)
You asked for an example, I provided it.
And while we’re discussing, it’s one of the main reasons while I’m always promoting non-Lemmy.world communities.
I wouldn’t have that much of an issue if LW was just centralized, but having this kind of aggressive, power tripping mods so high in the organization just doesn’t inspires trust.
I’m happy to discuss about LW admins about technicalities, but moderation wise this is still an issue.
And I know I’m not the only one, power tripping of LW is regularly brought up on !fedigrow@lemmy.zip when we decide where to consolidate communities.
If you want LW to be considered a trustworthy instance, please address that problem. Having that mod step down from 2 of the 3 communities above ( the 3 of them being in the top 6 of the most active communities on the platform https://lemmyverse.net/communities?order=active ) would be a sign of good faith.
Without that, expect people to bring threads like the one above on a regular basis to try to redirect people to non LW communities
Agree. I came as a curious lurker willing to explore the wild internet and I settled in this new place for its opportunities rather than for its qualities. Would I have been posting regularly OC on Reddit, I would never have considered this place as an opportunity to replace it. Maybe I would have post on both to see where it went but it would have not be a very solid backup plan.
Yeah, I remember the time, I had like 2-3 alternatives in my list that I switched between to see what people are posting and how it filled the feed. Personally I decided on staying with Lemmy only months after the event.