cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/323205

I keep seeing communities on lemmy writing in their bio “not official” or in some way deferring to the reddit community. I also see them writing that they’re willing to give up their community to the reddit mods if they ask. It’s like the whole place has imposter syndrome.

We’re the adults, guys.

We’re here. This is our community now. We broke up with that site, and we are making a new one. Run your community the way you think it should be run. Their communities are not any more official than ours. This is our place, not theirs.

We’re the adults. We’re the mods. We’re the community.

  • nosut@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I think a part of the “giving up to reddit mods” is the hopes that it will incentivise the reddit mods to push their subreddit to the community instead of trying to keep people on reddit just to maintain power.

    Personally I have made several communities that I enjoyed in reddit. While I dont mind modding it’s kind of a pain in the ass as well though.

  • s_v@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Heck yeah! I just signed up to lemmy and there’s alot for me to learn about this platform but it sure beats seeing a bunch of John Oliver pics and NSFW stuff on reddit lately

  • DarkThoughts@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Please don’t give up your place for Reddit mods. A lot of them are abusive shitheads and by no means more qualified to do this than anyone else.

    • vis4valentine@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, we don’t want to become reddit mods. They have been power tripping for too many years and live sad lives, and the stereotype was just proven true when spes threatened to strip them from their power. We can be so much better than fucking reddit mods.

      • mihor@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        Exactly, reddit mods are the epitome of the Samuel L. Jackson’s character from Django.

  • BrooklynMan@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    hear hear.

    i posted this yesterday, but i’ll post it here again, just as a reminder:

    • erogenouswarzone@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Is this actually happening? Reddit bots posting negative impact content to torpedo Lemmy?

      I know the other day I saw John Oliver and Disney on the front page. I hope those users gets banned.