• @pjwestin@lemmy.world
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    361 year ago

    That seems a little reductive. I’ve never moderated anything, but I bet if I spent years building up a community I would also find it hard to just walk away.

    • BreakDecks
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      421 year ago

      You don’t have to walk away, you can migrate. This is more an issue of building your house on the king’s land. The mods that stayed should serve as a warning to the rest of us that building a Reddit community means that Reddit owns the community you created, and that as a moderator Reddit owns you.

      • capital
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        241 year ago

        Anyone who’s ever tried to get a friend group to change chat apps knows this isn’t simple.

        I imagine doing it with a few thousand people is even more difficult.

        • @grrgyle@slrpnk.net
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          71 year ago

          I don’t see why you need to bring everyone over with you. Even just a hundred is more than enough for a community

        • Nakura
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          11 year ago

          I tried to get my friend group to move to Signal from FB messenger because I did not want that nasty shit on my phone anymore. They were not interested at all and acted like it was the most inconvenient thing in the world. I ended up uninstalling FB messenger anyway and only check it on my desktop and rarely respond now unless it is a one on one conversation or directed at me in a group chat. I told them if they want/need to get in touch with me right away to use old school SMS or actually call me.

        • @Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works
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          11 year ago

          The assumption here is that mods moving is enough.

          The mods didn’t have to move the community, just move themselves and let nature sort things out.

      • @PrettyLights@lemmy.world
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        61 year ago

        You don’t have to walk away, you can migrate.

        We tried that with Lemmy and many great communities only have one or two people posting consistently.

        Most people don’t care about behind the scenes

        • @Syrc@lemmy.world
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          11 year ago

          It depends, if mods were fully onboard and had a plan it definitely works. Just look at Piracy or Star Trek communities.

          • @PrettyLights@lemmy.world
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            21 year ago

            I just checked the Star Trek community on reddit and it’s still up with 753k members and 189 online. The Lemmy versions I can find are a fraction of that.

            The idea of Lemmy is great but let’s not fool ourselves into thinking big communities actually migrated.

            • @Syrc@lemmy.world
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              11 year ago

              Depends on what your standard is, to me a community on here having 100+ daily users is already a huge success. I don’t think people expect the whole subreddit to migrate, just enough to have roughly the same amount of content/interaction.

              • @PrettyLights@lemmy.world
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                11 year ago

                Then its not a migration, which is what we’re talking about.

                If you’re happy leaving a group of thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands in some communities for a group of 100 that’s cool, but don’t spin it as a successful migration.

                The rest of the world didn’t even realize we left.

                • @Syrc@lemmy.world
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                  It’s 100 daily interacting, which is much more than 100 subscribers. And Reddit doesn’t have daily users statistics so you can’t really know how many of those 700k are still using the site. Some might have not even logged for the past 14 years. I’d say actual daily users are less than 10k, maybe not even 2/3k looking at upvotes.

                  The statistics are not comparable, but as long as a community managed to form in here I’d say it’s still a success.

                  • @PrettyLights@lemmy.world
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                    11 year ago

                    I’d say actual daily users are less than 10k

                    So 100 times bigger, by your own estimate?

                    They created a new community, sure. The reddit community didn’t migrate though.