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I want to add a community that is essentially the Lemmy version of an existing subreddit (r/mcmansionhell). Is this allowed?

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] socialjusticewizard 18 points 1 year ago

Heck you can even start crossposting content with credit.

[–] notexecutive 16 points 1 year ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Awesome. I see no issue with it… only thing I’d add is that it would probably be morally encouraged, when it comes to subs with creative/non-obvious concepts to 1) allow for the mods who created the original to mod here if they want and 2) stay true to the original idea of the sub. As a homage to the mods and users who fostered the original community.

[–] notexecutive 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I want to do that! Should I just message them directly?

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

What I've seen some magazines do is simply have the magazine's explanatory text say that "this is not the same team from r/whatever from reddit, if that's you and you want to mod here just reach out" or something. Though I imagine that makes more sense if the sub stayed privated on reddit, if they're still reddit mods and just gave into reddit pressure I'd just tell them to stay there...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So is there a way to view this on kbin or do I always have to view it on sh.itjust.works?

[–] notexecutive 4 points 1 year ago

you should be able to view it wherever you use lemmy. they're all federated

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]

This should work after searching the URL straight from kbin... but searching it right now gives me a 500 Server error. Seems like it's having technical issues.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been getting 500s all day so it's most likely the server not being able to keep up with the Reddit migration

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

400s errors are server side. 500s errors are your side.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Other way around. 400s are client errors, 500s are server errors.

You can see the full list of http error codes and descriptions of what they mean here

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

Hah, thanks. Am a potato.

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

I think It's because someone from Kbin needs to subscribe to it first. I just did that and the link works now. Though federation doesn't work retroactively, so the existing posts aren't showing up.

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

As an update I just tried and it's working. I've been getting 505s a lot today, obviously server strain.

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

You can also post it on- new communities ,or one of those other thats similar so more people will see it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I tried posting from Mastodon and it worked although the title didn’t come through quite right.

[–] notexecutive 1 points 1 year ago

I saw I think <:3

If you can change the title through lemmy, to have the "CityName, StateName - Tag" format, that would be really helpful!

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

@[email protected]

WE’RE IN BABY!!!

I turn around and some internet stranger opens up McMansionHell in a proper fresh new adorable place. Thank you.

[–] mcc 14 points 1 year ago

Hell, make a copy on every instance.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I’ve seen at least six communities with the same or similar concepts/names as a subreddit, and at least a dozen posts around various communities encouraging any kind of post or engagement including new community creation. Be the content creator you want to see in the fediverse.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

There's nothing wrong with that. Lemmy is it's own thing, create whatever community you want based on whatever criteria you want. Just follow the rules your whatever instance you're creating the community at.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Fuck yeah it is! Make as many subs as you want baby! This is the Wild West and we have blackjack and hookers! Make a McMansion magazine. Hell, make two!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The content does not belong to reddit but to the community so I see no reason not to copy it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

…uh, which magazine contains blackjack and hookers?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've seen it talked about a few times across different platforms (Hackernews) where people have pondered the idea of cloning old posts, keeping the poster name but to a non-existent account. Acting as both a way to populate a community and archive content away from Reddit's control.

I haven't seen any examples of this done yet, not sure if anyone has.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It would be a bit of a project, but the most time-consuming part is already done. /r/datahoarder has a backup of reddit comment/post history that goes from the beginning of reddit up to March of 2023 (text only, no media). It's compressed down to about 2TB in size, but already in json format and anyone can download it, would just need some work to convert that to a format a fediverse instance could work with and somehow inject it into a new instance.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you mean they have a backup of comment and post history from /r/datahoarder or a backup of literally all reddit?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Literally all of reddit. The entire platform.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow. That's really impressive. I really enjoyed that sub.

Also surprising it's only 2TB.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's JSON so it's only text, and it's compressed, but that's still 1 trillion characters assuming it's UTF-16. I've not actually taken a look myself at the data though, I just contributed to let my PC contribute to the project.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I suppose yes. I basically copied a bunch of them.

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

Ah yes. URL-Squatters.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I’ve been thinking about this, but I’ve heard the moderation is a lot of work.