2y ago

TIFU creating a community I don't know how to run...

So it's like the title says. I created this community to kinda fill the void from the reddit shutdown, and have no real idea on how to moderate a community like this, especially if it ends up huge like the one on Reddit.

Seeing as I have little moderation experience, if anyone is interested in moderating for this community just lmk and I'll see about setting you up.

TL;DR - Created a potentially huge amount of work for myself that I'm super unfamiliar with.

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I'm just gonna keep posting the same obnoxious shitpost, so you'll always know you can just safely delete any posts from me. I want to make your life easy :)
- How considerate!

Brave pioneer! I applaud you!!

I almost did the same, I don't have such big balls like you, though

You got this! It's good to try new things, especially if they're scary.

LOL. I've got three already, but if you want to add me to the team, I'll keep an eye out for you, mostly because my cardinal rule in life is "don't be a dick".

I'd consider that a Sucess not a TIFU!!

That’s the spirit! Subbed, and I promise not to make any work for you.

I never subbed to TIFU, but I'm gonna sub to this one!
- Tomorrow in TIFU...

Lmao same, most of mine aren't super huge but there's a lot of em.
- I really hope c/dataisbeautiful takes off for you. I'd love to have that content on this platform.

I also don't have any experience with moderating :D but i'll give moderating a shot if you want me on the mod team :)
- Shabam! Knighted!

I just did the same thing for Best Updates (BORU replacement) only to find out that Lemmy post bodies can’t be longer than 10k characters (BORU posts are frequently over that). I’m not sure how best to proceed :/
- Talk to ruud the developer of lemmy.world would be my guess. Or the developer of whatever instance your using. And btw can you link the community?
  
  It’s !bestupdates@lemmy.world. I think that’s how you link it?

hahaha same boat, except I have 3 (big names but idk how busy it'll get yet
good luck to the both of us!
- I wish your inbox the best of luck, my man. Lol
  
  thank you 😭
  (moderating c/woooosh will definitely be interesting 🤦‍♂️)

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