Reminder: Reddit is gone. Your community *is* official. If you're a mod, you're just as good as a reddit mod. : reddit

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Reminder: Reddit is gone. Your community is official. If you're a mod, you're just as good as a reddit mod. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This is my thought as well, it's not so much as deferring as it is offering them an incentive to migrate. Having a "seal of approval" from the corresponding subreddit also helps in attracting more activity from those who are part of the migration and on the fence about contributing.

I've never started a community here, nor do I intend to, but if I were in that situation, I'd at least reach out to my counterpart subreddit.