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.
Yeah, I had my issues with both r/japaneselanguage and r/learnjapanese on reddit, so I decided to create a more language-focused community for Japanese learners at [email protected], and I think the community is looking great so far. Hopefully the new lemmy communities will be a good opportunity to address what we think hasn’t been working as well in the past.