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Reddit communities with millions of followers plan to extend the blackout indefinitely (www.theverge.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/technology@beehaw.org
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[–] 21 points 3 years ago (14 children)

Lemmy is growing but we need to work to make easy to allow reddit mods to setup instances and fund them

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  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago* (10 children)

    I am a Reddit mod. Gimme the step-by-step tutorial! There are certain subs that I want to see reproduced ASAP, like /r/LifeProTips and more!

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Maybe pick an existing one and help it get off the ground:

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Well, on Beehaw you cannot create new communities, but you certainly can be made a mod of one even from another instance. Find the ones you want and ask the current mods of it.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    Why can't we create communities on here? Do the Beehaw admins specifically restrict this? Thanks, by the way.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    We've outlined the rationale in this thread: https://beehaw.org/post/140733

    The tl;dr is that having many communities make it difficult to govern and ensure a safe space exists for the overall community and having too many can result in highly fragmented discussions that would be a challenge to grow and nurture.

    It's not that we don't permit new communities, but more towards we moderate their creation based off the communities interests.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago* (3 children)

    Be mildly competent at computers... or know someone who is and willing to help you.

    Either setup your own instance, or find an instance that's already setup that you like and the owner will let you add stuff to the database...

    Start a community...

    Read here... https://github.com/rileynull/RedditLemmyImporter

    Success! now you've migrated your subreddit to lemmy!

    (This is a little sarcastic. I'm not good at legit guides. But it is possible!)

    Edit: tweaked phrasing... doing this to general public servers would be unlikely.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I haven’t found many moderator features on Lemmy so far. The community that I created does not seem to have any way of blocking posts.

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