I know a lot of lurkers like me out there are browsing, but there's quite a bit of engagement capitol on the federated instances. If you find an interesting topic and the right community, you get a lot of feedback. There's not much hate being thrown out there either.

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[–] 4 points 3 years ago (3 children)

How is maintaining a community compared to an instance? It would be neat to make one, but what keeps me from making one is having to moderate it or maintain it.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago*

    Super easy. I just made one for fun, (@worldwithoutus)
    and there's no one in it, so there are no moderation chores at all!

    I figure if enough people ever join it that it becomes hard, some of them would want to moderate with me anyway.

    I never made anything at reddit, but it's way less intimidating here in the fediverse.

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

    Go for it man! I had never moderated over on Reddit but I wanted to contribute on Lemmy so I started up some communities. Everyone has behaved themselves so far and people have been pretty positive about things. Eventually it might get overwhelming (if Lemmy really takes off), but there's always the option of adding more mods to help.

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