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 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 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 [email protected]. I think that’s how you link it?
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]/
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.
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!
♥ 🤝
You got this! It’s good to try new things, especially if they’re scary.
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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’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!
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 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.
You can do it!
We will behave, pinky promise 🤙
I have DM’d methamphetamine synthesis instructions to everyone in this thread
Much appreciated
Famous. Last. Words.
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.
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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!!
We are with you!
Thanks, brother. o7
