Yeah, sorry about the run-on sentence title, but I hope you get what I’m saying
That was me. I don’t really feel like modding. I was offered a few mod spots on reddit over the past 11 years, took up one or two, didn’t really enjoy it.
But if everyone feels that way, then lemmy can never reach critical mass. SO i bit the bullet, created a community and hopefully someone will be interested in modding if it ever grows big.
If anyone’s interested, I created maliciouscompliance (one of my favorite subs to lurk in). Mostly reposts for now, but OC should trickle in slowly.
Try joining from one of the links below:
/c/maliciouscompliance@lemmy.world
https://lemmy.world/c/maliciouscompliance
Or type the following in the search bar at the top: !maliciouscompliance@lemmy.world
r/HermanCainAward. All those stories of antivaxxers biting it are cathartic.
/r/jrpg
Yeah, the local ones like New Jersey or AITAH, but more importantly AskHistorians, AskScience, badHistory, etc
They wouldn’t let me onto Beehaw with the answer I gave to their question, so I joined the first instance I could find that looked interesting. Now I kind of feel awkward making any new communities that aren’t Star Trek related lol.
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You are just describing all of us lurkers and occasional commenters
Is it easy to hand over control to someone else?
Absolutely, yes. There are a decent number of subreddits I enjoyed, but only as a lurker.
As a former reddit mod who’s made some communities here, so far they are 0% of the work of the reddit ones (not that I was working hard on the reddit communities, I set up automod and let it run). But so far I haven’t had to do any mod work here because there’s basically no spam and no bots. I’m sure that will change, but I can also just recruit more mods as the communities grow.
Hope someone can mod a bodyweightfitness community here
I think the trick will be to make more generic subs. There probably aren’t enough users to have a dedicated “Zelda Tears of the Kingdom” sub, but “Nintendo” can actually gain traction. Anyone wanting to create a community should see if there’s already one that might satisfy the needs.
There was /r/soccerstreams but it was banned, unfortunately. Now it would be a good opportunity to bring it back again.
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